RustyReb Report post Posted January 14, 2014 Morning all! Finished a belt for a buddy last night. Used airbrush with Feibing's light brown oil dye cut with denatured alcohol. I can't seem to get a nice light brown without the dreaded orange tint.......what do I need to do? All the tans and light browns seem orange to me........ Reb Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JLSleather Report post Posted January 14, 2014 Fiebing's dyes have always had a reddish tint in the browns. Add just a touch of green to "balance" it back to a more brown tone. OR, use the chocolate instead of the "brown". OR, Angelus dyes may have a truer brown. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RustyReb Report post Posted January 14, 2014 Thanks for the info.......just ordered some Angelus dyes to try. Do you thin those with alcohol as well? Reb Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JLSleather Report post Posted January 14, 2014 (edited) Yes. You can actually use the same thinner for both. They aren't identical, and I don't recommend mixing the Fiebings with the Angelus. I tried that, with some fairly strange results. OR, go ahead and try mixing - just not on your project. Might be good to see that first hand? Much of what I know about leather came from trying something that didn't work Edited January 14, 2014 by JLSleather Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
needles Report post Posted January 14, 2014 Reb, as jlsleather says, you can adjust colours for colour matching or just altering tones, by using a colour wheel. basically if you find your colour is slightly off toned to one colour, say its got too much of a green tint........ you look at the wheel for the complimentary colour or the one directly opposit. opposit green is red, so by adding red you will knock back the green tint.... blue will knock back an orange tint...etc etc.... purple....yellow lots of other factors can come into play from this, like replacing one off tint with another, which you then have to adjust on from this, again using the wheel. but as your probably only just mixing to get to an approximate desired colour and not colour matching, it probably wont matter to you. clear as mud... I think play and practice Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pennypower Report post Posted January 15, 2014 Sometimes I just put black antique over it and that desaturates it some. It's kind of a quick fix. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RustyReb Report post Posted January 15, 2014 Thanks all for the good advice.......this site is a wonderful way to share knowledge! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
veedub3 Report post Posted January 15, 2014 I usually use Fiebings chocolate but last week when I was at Tandy they only had a Fiebings dark brown on the shelf and surprisingly it did not give that "orangey" tan color as my customers call it. Karina Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
