The Painted Leathers Thread

Maisey · 19 Dec 2008, 22:04

Painted leather jackets are awesome, fact. You see them in abundance at Mish/Nephs/Sisters etc shows. Matt and Tim Legion both have awesome jackets as well, so I decided it was high time I painted my own (with plenty of help from a good friend - a wonderful lady called Natasha).

I'd love to see some photos of the jackets owned by other HL's... Here's mine:

psichonaut · 19 Dec 2008, 22:20

never had one...in the 80/90's here it was a metal-head thing.....we(me and a friend of mine were the only "goths" in this town) worn only black/purple/grey.....in other words....dark colours

James Blast · 19 Dec 2008, 23:08

@Maisey when you get toothache do you reach for the pliers or make an appointment?

emilystrange · 19 Dec 2008, 23:33

you got the darkness logo wrong!

19 Dec 2008, 23:40

My beloved jacket

James Blast · 20 Dec 2008, 00:18

emilystrange wrote:you got the darkness logo wrong!

threads passim about my distaste for incorrect fonts etc...

it's called 'housestyle'

it hits us all

Maisey · 20 Dec 2008, 12:12

Love the body electric one

Mine was done freehand (with a little help from my good friend masking tape) - so thw font is less Caslon Antique and more, as James put it, "Housestyle". I'm planning on doing at least a couple more, just because doing this one was such fun - any tips for painting perfect text?

psichonaut · 20 Dec 2008, 13:26

Maisey wrote: any tips for painting perfect text?

training mate...

sheets and some more bad copy before painting the jacket

that's all....or better you can use the decoration-way of work:
very fine sheets, paint it and using a needle sign really close the border of the draw
2nd step: put the sheet on the jacket and using a fine dust(oxid or similar) spread it on the sheet's hole.
put off the sheet and the draw should be transferred on the jacket....now the rest is simply.....use your colours and te jacket should be ready to wear on

Maisey · 20 Dec 2008, 13:35

Nice one! We want to do a Terminator jacket for a mate's birthday, I shall keep the needle hole technique in mind.

(Just to point out, most of the wonkiness of the text is due to slight creases/folds in the jacket at the time of photographing)

7anthea7 · 20 Dec 2008, 22:54

psichonaut wrote:
Maisey wrote: any tips for painting perfect text?
training mate...
sheets and some more bad copy before painting the jacket
that's all....or better you can use the decoration-way of work:
very fine sheets, paint it and using a needle sign really close the border of the draw
2nd step: put the sheet on the jacket and using a fine dust(oxid or similar) spread it on the sheet's hole.
put off the sheet and the draw should be transferred on the jacket....now the rest is simply.....use your colours and te jacket should be ready to wear on

The technique of the masters! I've seen a collection of these used by Holbein for paintings.

You're following in some exalted footsteps, you are

psichonaut · 20 Dec 2008, 22:57

7anthea7 wrote:
psichonaut wrote:
Maisey wrote: any tips for painting perfect text?
training mate...
sheets and some more bad copy before painting the jacket
that's all....or better you can use the decoration-way of work:
very fine sheets, paint it and using a needle sign really close the border of the draw
2nd step: put the sheet on the jacket and using a fine dust(oxid or similar) spread it on the sheet's hole.
put off the sheet and the draw should be transferred on the jacket....now the rest is simply.....use your colours and te jacket should be ready to wear on
The technique of the masters! I've seen a collection of these used by Holbein for paintings.

You're following in some exalted footsteps, you are

i'm only a whiter

James Blast · 20 Dec 2008, 23:15

and not a sign writer

psichonaut · 20 Dec 2008, 23:17

James Blast wrote:and not a sign writer

my bank often asks me for it

Maisey · 24 Dec 2008, 23:43

a) This jacket has got me taken into a corner for "chat" by the police a grand total of twice sinse it's birth a week ago. This makes me feel most punk rock and thus a tad smug.

b) I'm sure other people have got some cool jackets, let's have a looksie!

James Blast · 24 Dec 2008, 23:49

that'll be the style police

7anthea7 · 24 Dec 2008, 23:54

Maisey wrote:a) This jacket has got me taken into a corner for "chat" by the police a grand total of twice sinse it's birth a week ago. This makes me feel most punk rock and thus a tad smug.

I was planning on finishing up the one I've been working on for the Seattle gig, but then realised I wouldn't be able to wear it, 'cause the venue doesn't allow colours. Not that I'm a gangbanger (

), but the design was intentionally created to look like colours...Ah, it's a long story, which I'll tell when it's finished and I have pictures to post.

b) I'm sure other people have got some cool jackets, let's have a looksie!

I have a finished variation on the previously-mentioned theme, but it's denim, and not painted (embroidered, studded, patched, pinned, etc), so it doesn't quite fit the parameters of the thread...

nodubmanshouts · 25 Dec 2008, 00:06

I wonder when little kids see Maisey's jacket do they ask mummy what does "f**k" mean or what does "gothic" mean?

Maisey · 25 Dec 2008, 01:18

7anthea7 wrote:
I was planning on finishing up the one I've been working on for the Seattle gig, but then realised I wouldn't be able to wear it, 'cause the venue doesn't allow colours. Not that I'm a gangbanger ( ), but the design was intentionally created to look like colours...Ah, it's a long story, which I'll tell when it's finished and I have pictures to post.

Venue doesn't allow colours? Is it that goth? Or even that racist? Or that hateful of James Ray's vocals? (depending on interpretation of the term colours). And why does it make you a gangbanger?

7anthea7 wrote:
I have a finished variation on the previously-mentioned theme, but it's denim, and not painted (embroidered, studded, patched, pinned, etc), so it doesn't quite fit the parameters of the thread...

Post a pic anyway

nobumshouts wrote: I wonder when little kids see Maisey's jacket do they ask mummy what does "f**k" mean or what does "gothic" mean?

I should have asked the last copper, who told me "he didn't want to have to explain that to his kids"

James Blast · 25 Dec 2008, 02:00

this may explain things
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094894/plotsummary

nodubmanshouts · 25 Dec 2008, 02:07

I was planning on finishing up the one I've been working on for the Seattle gig, but then realised I wouldn't be able to wear it, 'cause the venue doesn't allow colours

That would never happen in the United States of.... oh hang on...

7anthea7 · 25 Dec 2008, 02:16

Maisey wrote:Venue doesn't allow colours? Is it that goth? Or even that racist? Or that hateful of James Ray's vocals? (depending on interpretation of the term colours). And why does it make you a gangbanger?

Mea culpa: language barrier...I meant "colours" in the sense of gang-specific clothing, with a gang's emblems/symbols/tags/whatever. You know: like a Hell's Angels jacket. So since mine is designed to resemble something like that (even though it's kind of a joke), El CorazÃ³n wouldn't allow it. It's generally a good policy - it keeps them from having bloody warfare (or shootings, like some clubs do) on the dance floor...

Post a pic anyway

Well then, I'll just have to steal a camera somewhere...

Dan · 28 Dec 2008, 01:52

On mine I painted "the sisters of mercy" in a celtic script, like the one on the Stonehenge (Lyceum?) boot. So far as I can remember nobody's ever commented that it was the "wrong" font.

James Blast · 28 Dec 2008, 02:40

it was the wrong font, it is the wrong font, happy?

still is the "wrong font"*, just because some bootlegger decided what he had left 'would do' way back when, doesn't make it correct

*Lack of a Caslon Antique Letrasetâ„¢ sheet does not make it correct. Too cheap to buy a fresh sheet of Caslon A is the answer.
This only makes the bootleg correct but the scheme of things (the 'Big Picture') more muddied.
Fields of the Nefilim used Ameican Uncial on the 'Burning the Fields' ep and Caslon Antique on the 'Preacher Man' 12". The Sisters Of Mercy have been far more consistent in their graphic style via their official output.
Dalliances into Arial Narrow and surgical adjustments to Caslon Antique allowed, but then they haven't released anything new this century.
Something that gives me no joy, in fact makes me extremely annoyed. Creatives... eh..?

Dan · 28 Dec 2008, 04:05

Is/was?? Huh? Wotchuonaboutwillis? I don't give a crap about the grammar.

I mentioned the bootleg to illustrate which font I used to those reading this page, the rights or wrongs of the bootleg font is irrelevant, I used it because I like it. By "nobody's ever commented that it was the "wrong" font" I meant "I'm surprised nobody's ever commented that I should've used caslon antique", which of course I shouldn't because it's my jacket and I can paint whatever I f**king well like on it.

I also didn't paint "rise and reverberate" at all because every other unoriginal bastard c.1985/86 were all using it.

silentNate · 28 Dec 2008, 13:24

I'll hold your jacket Dan