Hand-etched portraits into leather hides

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Hand-etched portraits into leather hides

Posted on 20 January 2010

We have already seen a plenty of different kinds of artists who managed to find their own way in arts and to create their unique style. It is not so easy to be unique amongst thousands of artists who are trying to do something remarkable and to become famous and rich.

We have already seen artist who ‘paint’ with their guns, artist who cut incredible sculptures from a single paper of sheet and a plenty of other artists who’s style is pretty weird but unique.

Mark Evans is a leather artist and he is also one of those who can say that their art is pretty unique. He decided to take a knife in his hands and to draw some figures in leather. Here you can see some of his masterpieces which are hand-etched into leather hides.Visit his site here .

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5 Responses to “Hand-etched portraits into leather hides”

Zapan says:

January 20, 2010 at 4:05 pm

this guy is a hack ! Those leather panels are obviously laser etched, who he thinks he’s fooling with his silly knives, there is no way bowie knives held by a clutched fist can achieve such precision etchings ! This is bullshit, why do you think the paintings are made of precisely squared panels ? Because they are calibrated to pass through the etching machine, that’s why !
zapanista says:

January 21, 2010 at 12:05 am

>>>This is bu*****, why do you think the paintings are made of precisely squared panels ?

Because they couldn’t find a single 30 foot tall cow with which to make one giant single panel?

Because one modern cow only has so much surface area and it need to be stretched over a frame?

Because they don’t make cow shaped frames?

Because you clearly came here from Digg?
anon says:

January 21, 2010 at 12:36 am

obvious troll is obvious
rzbz says:

February 17, 2010 at 11:36 am

It seems somewhat… disturbing, to see portraits of cows etched onto the hides of other cows. Something macabre about it, like honoring someone by carving a portrait of them into their skull bone.
Si says:

February 21, 2010 at 8:01 pm

You can use TinEye to find similar pictures. If you scale them together you will see that they match exactly. So he didn’t create the pictures by hand. They are clearly scanned onto the leather beforehand and then he cuts the leather. Or it is laser etched onto the leather. Personally I think without a video actually showing him making the thing I would go with laser etched. The matching up with existing images is too exact.

I tested this on Biggie-Smalls (exact match), and the The great escape. The second one looks like a Recompose tool was done to scale down the sign into the picture, otherwise everything matches the original exactly.