Tooled leather picture

Liquid Multiverse

Leather carving that glows. This tooled scene appeard on the Leather Crafters and Saddlers Jounal cover Vol 28, No. 4

by Tony Allen Bernier

Deep sea drawing with an octopus and a supmarine.
Deep sea leather tooling with an octopus being ridden, a submarine, and cities floating in the background.
Detailed leather tooling of a deep sea battle.
Tooled leather scene that glows in the dark.
Table set up with many colors of paints, and a painted leather project sitting on an easel.
Complicated perspective drawing of a submarine with several vanishing points and guide lines.

Finished tooling area is 8.5” x 11”. The size of a standard US piece of printer paper.

Check back for the blog on the tooling process on creating this piece. In the meantime there’s videos showing Tony working on this piece.