Art Lined in Leather - Mark Evans

published in arts by mariana carrillo

Painter is who knows about or practice the art of painting. How can be called someone who make works as perfect as paintings — but with leather? Mark is an uncommon artist and his art won the world. Knives are his tools and leather is his canvas.

Mark Evans leather knives pictures

Now and then it highly appears at the fashion trends, but if you want your car seats made of it, you will pay an expensive bill. Shaped as purses and shoes, it becomes a women's fetish. Leath.er n (Lat coriu) 1 Hard and thick skin of an animal; 2 Skin of some animals, after tanning. Of course, there isn't a precise date to say when the leather started to be used by humans; however, pieces of tanned leather were found at the Ancient Egypt, three thousand years before Christ.

Synonym of quality and status, in some cases, for those who believed that the innovation came only at the shape of purses, belts and hats, there another item at this repertoire. In order to transform it into a piece of art, Mark Evans just needed the perfect tool -- the knife.

Mark uses common knives and scalpels, like those we can find at the houses' kitchens and at the surgeries' tables. To him, the difference is how sharpened they are -- and, then, just let the imagination flow. Technically, it's simple: he rasps and makes little perforations on the leather; as the power of colors doesn't come to his aid, he turns contrast the basis of his creations and that's the way amazing figures raise as if they were at the canvas of a great painter.

It's easy just when we talk about technique.

His works are so big that they can cover a whole wall. Mark even spends months working with a single project. The images are so real that you feel as if you were in front of a Muhammad Ali fight, a crucified Jesus Christ or the United Kingdom Prime-Minister Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill; examples of Mark's works.

Mark Evans leather knives pictures