This is a present I made for Jane, whose birthday is tomorrow.  My camera isn’t here right now, so I had to photograph it using the scanner instead.  It would have scanned better if I had done it before gluing on the barette backing, but I think the detail came out well enough. 

This piece is small, about 1 1/2″ x 4″.  It’s made with tooled 4-5oz leather, painted with acrylic.  Before painting it, I used a dye wash over the whole thing in emerald green, so that I wouldn’t have any natural leather color showing through.  I deliberately left some of the green showing when I painted the copper background, for a verdigris look. Green oxide interference paint highlights the veins, nose, and eyes.