Leather Love — video

Today I would like to invite you into my world of fashion design and leather crafting. I will take you with me on a journey of sorts into the creation of a custom leather costume, beginning with the request. I was asked if I would make something like this...four pieces; a shrug, a halter top, a belt/skirt/chaps piece, and boot covers.

With this project, and unlike a lot of other custom projects, there weren't many boundaries set before me. I was given total artistic freedom and...

My Dragon Scales are 3-Dimensional – they are not tooled or stamped leather! In the video below, I demonstrate the techniques that I have developed and perfected, and show you a finished work of leather art.  

But before you watch, here's a little back story about my Dragon Scales...

I had developed the technique for making my Dragon Scales because of a customer...

This video is a short and speedy clip of "the making" of my ABEBA Leather Flowers. What you don't see in this video is me hand cutting the petals for the flowers with a pair of sharp leather scissors, and the assembly of each to petal to form the flower. The entire process takes much longer than what I was able to capture here.

I incorporate my ABEBA Leather Flowers in a number of designs such as, my bookmarks, hair clips, clothing pins, headbands, and even on my KAMA Rings! Ariel...

All the images in this video are ones that the extremely talented photographer, Cynthia August, took of me in "my space". By placing all them together, in a video format, tells a story so much more eloquently then viewing them one at a time or reading a collection of words that have been written about me.

The story too is deeper than the obviousness of what I do and what all artists do. The story is about "the how" and "the...