Quick Studies – a leather collection of clever birds and prairie dogs, Volume II
From the Practice Log – Volume II of the Shops series, a small exhibition of original stamping studies.
A September study.
Quick Studies is a small leather collection about the quick learners – birds that paint and speak, prairie dogs that post a sentry and keep the count. Five original stamps, one lesson per product.
First, the luggage tags. A macaw crosses them in full flight, long tail streaming, beside the words TRAVELS LIGHT – her bones are hollow, and everything she owns is feathers.
The black tag carries her in gold. It looks genuinely beautiful.
On warm red and navy she presses as a blind deboss.
Next, the keychains went to the sentry. A prairie dog sits up on her mound with a different bark for everything that approaches, so under her we wrote FIRST TO KNOW – from now on, the keys report to her.
Looks great when stamped onto the leather, in golden tan and in deep brown.
Then the toiletry bags. A macaw learns to talk and keeps one phrase in heavier rotation than the rest, so ours sits on her perch in the corner of the bag and says GOOD MORNING – at home and at every unfamiliar sink to come. The stack pairs navy over deep brown.
Then the journals. At the bird show a macaw takes a brush in her beak and paints, so we pressed her mid-stroke into the corner of the cover over the words MAKE YOUR MARK – the rest of the pages are yours.
One journal in deep green, one in pale gray sand.
And finally, the one we liked the most. The golden tan catchall tray shows a prairie dog town in cross-section – the sentry upright on her mound and the family curled in their round rooms below, with ALL ACCOUNTED FOR written across the sky. A catchall tray performs the same count every night.
It looks absolutely gorgeous when stamped onto the leather.
We made this out of love. Leatherius Woodman is on a mission to create and share artifacts of beauty, craft and love – this study is one of them, and we hope the feeling is mutual. Every image is a render – how we prototype before cutting a die.
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