How to dye like this?

[AndyL1]

I follow that artist on Instagram, he's from Russia and I don't know his name (I can't read the language. Haha!) ALWAYS really cool work on there. My guess is dyes expertly painted on, sealed very well with a resist, and antiqued. That's my method anyway.

 

[MADMAX22]

The general process is dye, resist, antique. Which types you use is up to you. Here are a few videos showing generically what you want to do. 

 

These arent the best videos but I cant find the couple of good ones I had book marked. Still it gets ya off on the right start and go from there. I prefer feibings over the tandy stuff. 

[MADMAX22]

Check this guys channel out as its very similar, heck may even be the same guy I dont know. 

 

[Vo1lok]

On 10.02.2017 at 9:28 AM, NVLeatherWorx said:

The full color elements are either done with acrylic leather paint or even hand painted using standard spirit dyes.  If it is done with spirit dyes then you have to seal it to create a "resist" against any other coloring that will be applied over it.  Once your detail color work (and resist) have properly dried you then apply an antique over the top of everything to get your final "overall" color.  Could be the lower quality water-based antiques or even a the spirit based Fiebing's Antique pastes, they both will do the trick but be aware that the water-based antiques are typically much darker and may not ultimately be what you are looking for.  The Fiebing's Antique paste can be blended with their spirit dyes to create custom hues/colors without causing any negative effect to full color elements because you only use a little bit of it.

There are books written on the topics of how to do just about every coloring technique you can think of and they are an investment (very little one by the way) that should not be passed up.

Hi again! Sorry for late reply. I took some time to look comments on this leatherworkers instagram, and here is what i founded about his stain technique, im really interested what do you think about it!

 

And found some amazing image of his skull work. Third from the left is amazing! I think this is "wiping off" and "some sandpaper" technique, but still not sure. and are you sure thats he use Tandys cova color dyes (acrylic?)?

Edited February 15, 2017 by Vo1lok

[Vo1lok]

13 hours ago, AndyL1 said:

I follow that artist on Instagram, he's from Russia and I don't know his name (I can't read the language. Haha!) ALWAYS really cool work on there. My guess is dyes expertly painted on, sealed very well with a resist, and antiqued. That's my method anyway.

 

I follow him to  You mean dyes or stains? Thats important.

Im interested about examples of your works, do you have any?

11 hours ago, MADMAX22 said:

Check this guys channel out as its very similar, heck may even be the same guy I dont know. 

No, this is another guy for sure

[Vo1lok]

11 hours ago, MADMAX22 said:

The general process is dye, resist, antique. Which types you use is up to you. Here are a few videos showing generically what you want to do. 

These arent the best videos but I cant find the couple of good ones I had book marked. Still it gets ya off on the right start and go from there. I prefer feibings over the tandy stuff. 

But final result looks so different. Its hard for understanding for me, because all what i worked with are spirit dyes and antique paste, both from fiebings, and resolene of course. And when i saw this leatherworkers dying technique, i fell in love with this one 

Edited February 15, 2017 by Vo1lok

[MADMAX22]

1 hour ago, Vo1lok said:

No, this is another guy for sure

Thanks, yeah the pics posted do look better than the work in the video I linked.

1 hour ago, Vo1lok said:

But final result looks so different. Its hard for understanding for me, because all what i worked with are spirit dyes and antique paste, both from fiebings, and resolene of course. And when i saw this leatherworkers dying technique, i fell in love with this one 

Lots of experimentation. One thing to look at besides the dying/painting that he does is that there is a lot of texture work on the leather. Background and even the carved portions have a lot of texture added to pick up the antique. A good resist is also very important to ensure the dyed portions can be cleared of the antique.

Have you looked at Xian leather at all, he does some amazing work as well with dying and antiquing (leather work in general). Slightly different style but similar.

[AndyL1]

6 hours ago, Vo1lok said:

I follow him to  You mean dyes or stains? Thats important.

Im interested about examples of your works, do you have any?

I use dyes. I have also used a non-traditional method for color by way of Sharpie pens. Excellent control and a ton of colors out there. Check out my Instagram feed @blackthornleather for images.

[bgl500]

On 2/9/2017 at 11:56 AM, Vo1lok said:

Hi! First of all - sorry for my english, i know it's bad

So, today i saw a nice carved leather wallets, with freaking amazing dying technique. Now i can't sleep because i need to know how to get these colours. I think its not spirit dyes, seems like water based or acrylic used with some snain ot acrylic gel (i dont know), but, its so vintage, and lean, yes, its looks old, but clean. Do you have any ideas, or maybe you know this technique? Maybe you can give some advise of dye brand?..God, that's make me mad...

Hope I'm not highjacking your thread Vo1Lok but does anyone know of the backgrounding tool in the upper right? Have always figured I'd have to make something to get that texture.

[NVLeatherWorx]

First of all, which upper right?  The background on these is actually done with matting tools and not traditional background tools.  If you go to the Tandy website you can look at their stamping tools and will find exactly what you are looking for.