No Mellow Yellow!

[bizbeblu]

I've now tried Fieblings, the Tandy eco-whatever, and the Cova yellows. The Cova will actually come out yellow, but it feels much more like latex paint than dye. The other two even with repeated coats never really turn yellow. At best I get a slight yellowing when what I need is a brilliant sunshine color. (Tandy even calls its shade "sunshine.") This seems to hold true on most of the leathers I've tired mostly ~4oz tooling sides.

Anybody have more success or a different technique?

Robert

[DoubleC]

Did you water the acrylics down before applying? If you do you won't get a 'paint' feel to them. I just painted a yellow full moon a while back and it turned out nice. Cheryl

[bizbeblu]

Did you water the acrylics down before applying? If you do you won't get a 'paint' feel to them. I just painted a yellow full moon a while back and it turned out nice. Cheryl

Now I feel a bit dumb Nope, I've always put it on straight. Of course it is an acrylic so thinning would give different effects. I'll try it. Thanks.

robert

[DoubleC]

hey I used it full strength when I first started No dumb questions!!!!!

[LNLeather]

Just to get an idea of what my color dyes would look like - I cut a sample piece of leather and divided it into 3 columns

the first column was untouched leather, the second column had a light coat of Satin Sheen, and the third column had a light coat of Super Sheen.

Then left to right, in three rows - I put a spot of colors in each column, first row was cova, second row was eco flo color dye, and the third row was

Angelus dye. It really makes it easy to pick what to use, depending on the color/effect I'm looking for... You could add more rows for diluted ink/dye...

Hope this helps

[bizbeblu]

Cheryl,

Great idea. Thanks. Just got to take the time to do it. I'm still looking for a way to get brightly dyed leathers - red, yellow, emerald green, etc. I've, for whatever reason, had a lot of success of late with small items (say a coin purse or a key fob and other things made out of scrap) dyed so they don't have the basic "leather" look. Looking for ways to get a bright leather look.