Small Saddle Bags: Golden Dragon

[swivelsphinx]

This is a photo of a set of saddlebags I did with a golden dragon inverted carving design. The design was adapted from a piece of tattoo flash. The leather was leftover vegtan/latigo.

-swivelsphinx

[MADMAX22]

Looks good swivel. Nice clean construction, and great job on the dragon carving.

What did you use to color the dragon?

[swivelsphinx]

What did you use to color the dragon?

I believe I used a several thin layers of Cova gold paint over a layer of Delta Ceramcoat copper with a supershene over top.

I like to layer metalics over flat colors, or other, darker metalics to keep them from looking flat. I usually prefer dye to paint, but for gold, I only know about paints and gold leaf. I've seen some people use paint markers, but that seems like a half-baked idea. Once that cured, I put Atom Wax over the whole thing. The panels the dragons are on are veg tan which I dyed to match the latigo that came pre colored. The latigo, interestingly enough, was bought by another vendor I know while he was in Amish country.

I actually like Delta's Ceramcoat line better than Cova because the paint base seems deeper. I am playing around with using Delta's fabric paint mix as a thinner instead of water when I use it over a dye for leather projects.

Thanks for the compliment!

Edited January 22, 2010 by swivelsphinx

[dscott]

nice job great carving

Dscott

[swivelsphinx]

nice job great carving

Dscott

Thank you! This was my first inverted carving... had Stohlman's Inverted Carving book open the whole time by the bench!