$175.00
16 in stock
Waco Convention Center – Texas North 115
Friday 08/08 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Intermediate
Class Size Limit: 20 Students
See complete workshop description below
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16 in stock
Waco Convention Center – Texas North 115
Friday 08/08 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Intermediate
Workshop Description: Pictorial Carving can seem mysterious and forbidding to the leather craftsman that has never received some basic instruction on the proper techniques. Once these basic skills are grasped and understood, a new and exciting world of leather carving is opened. Barry King recently started creating a group of pictorial carving stamps. Now that these are available, learning to carve beautiful pictorial scenes in leather is possible for everyone. In this class, we will create a beautiful mountain scene with pine trees and evergreens. You will not only learn how to make a basic tree, but how to illustrate it at various distances. Grass, bushes rocks, and hills will all be covered in this workshop. If you are ready to take your floral carving beyond geometrics and floral, this is a class you should be in.
Materials to bring: Stamping surface, stylus, swivel knife, strop, pressurized water sprayer, modelling spoon and mallet. Stamps should include bevellers, matting tools, pointed bevellers, small, fine textured background stamps, and the Barry King pictorial carving set. The Craftool equivalents are A98, A99, F976, F902, F910, F933, F912L, F912R, F913L, F913R, F914L, F914R, F872, F915, and F915.
Workshop Instructor: The Miles City Saddlery is what did it for Jim Linnell, who has now been “retired” for 8 years after a 40-year career with Tandy. Growing up on a Montana ranch in the 1950s, he made the 100-mile round trip to Miles City once a month with his family. “It was the sounds of the shop and the smell of the leather,” he says, that really stuck with him.
Recipient of the 2002 Al Stohlman Award and long recognized as one of leathercraft’s most talented and innovative artists, the “retired” Tandyite today is more active than ever, creating incredible new art and teaching workshops around the country, the world, online and at his Elktracks Studio in Venus, Texas, just south of the Dallas/Ft. Worth area.
Starting in Billings, Montana, becoming a manager, and moving to progressively more advanced positions in regional management, Jim was entrusted with nothing less than the rehabilitation and resurrection of the Tandy Leathercraft brand when he was brought on board as the Leather Factory’s Director of Operations in 2000. A handwritten note from a coworker at the top of an investment research group’s announcement joked of the move, “Jim – No pressure! Hah!” Working in the world of leathercraft has never been a job for Jim, it has been his passion. That, indeed, brings no pressure.
Workshop Sponsors: Hermann Oak Leather Co.
CANCELLATION POLICY
• There is a $25 administration fee for canceling a workshop.
• The cost of each workshop will be refunded minus the $25 fee.
• No refunds for workshops after Monday, August 4, 2025.
