Water Color Art Pencils

[WoodysWorkshop]

I ran across an add looking for a specific design and it was about Artist's Water Color, Coloring Pencils. At the bottom of the list they say they can be used on is Leather Coloring.

They are fairly Cheap! $25 shipped (within the USA) for 72 colors.

As a kid there was nothing better than getting the BIG box of Crayons with the sharpener in the back, and I got really good at coloring. Rarely went outside the lines....

Has anyone tried these? Though I'm not sure how one would go about applying them in thin layers like fading from one color to another...

NOTE: I use to do Custom Auto Painting. Cob Webs, Fading, Shading, little bit of graphics and air brushing for a short time. [Thanks Crayola!]

 

EDIT: I did a search on how to use these things. Watched a Crayola vid. You put them on dry, and use a wet brush and mix.

Seems extremely easy to fade and shade. And if there is too much color, you can lift it off with a wet Q-Tip.

Now, mind you, the guy is an artists and was using water color paper. But Dry Veggie Tanned Leather wouldn't be all that much different of a media.

I think I will send the wife out tomorrow and buy me a 24 pack of the Crayola pencils and try it out on some of my scrap rounders for the heck of it. They are junk by nature and failure (we all have those don't we?).

I'll post some pics once I give it a go. This seams promising.

I've used permanent markers before because that is all I had for the color I needed, (and as a pack rat I took my markers from work when I was laid off from the office, haha to them) and it worked out great!

I'll add pics of those 2 rounder before I ship them out.

Edited September 2, 2017 by WoodysWorkshop
I learned something...

[JD62]

Cool, I hope this works out for you.

[NVLeatherWorx]

8 hours ago, WoodysWorkshop said:

I ran across an add looking for a specific design and it was about Artist's Water Color, Coloring Pencils. At the bottom of the list they say they can be used on is Leather Coloring.

They are fairly Cheap! $25 shipped (within the USA) for 72 colors.

As a kid there was nothing better than getting the BIG box of Crayons with the sharpener in the back, and I got really good at coloring. Rarely went outside the lines....

Has anyone tried these? Though I'm not sure how one would go about applying them in thin layers like fading from one color to another...

NOTE: I use to do Custom Auto Painting. Cob Webs, Fading, Shading, little bit of graphics and air brushing for a short time. [Thanks Crayola!]

 

EDIT: I did a search on how to use these things. Watched a Crayola vid. You put them on dry, and use a wet brush and mix.

Seems extremely easy to fade and shade. And if there is too much color, you can lift it off with a wet Q-Tip.

Now, mind you, the guy is an artists and was using water color paper. But Dry Veggie Tanned Leather wouldn't be all that much different of a media.

I think I will send the wife out tomorrow and buy me a 24 pack of the Crayola pencils and try it out on some of my scrap rounders for the heck of it. They are junk by nature and failure (we all have those don't we?).

I'll post some pics once I give it a go. This seams promising.

I've used permanent markers before because that is all I had for the color I needed, (and as a pack rat I took my markers from work when I was laid off from the office, haha to them) and it worked out great!

I'll add pics of those 2 rounder before I ship them out.

On the dry leather you may find it a bit more difficult to get the fades and other shading results you are looking for once you dampen the color as the moisture tends to set into the pores of the leather very fast.  Another option that you may want to test out is to do all of your coloring and shading work while dry and then use a spray bottle to just mist the surface and see how that turns out.  This way all that you will be doing is just setting the colors and shading and nothing more.

Hope it works out for you but there are way too many non-leather folks out there who think that their stuff works on leather too yet they have never actually provided any visual evidence of it.