Airbrush compressor question

[garypl]

That’s beautiful work Jeff!  What kind of paint do you use?

Gary

[JLSleather]

On 4/26/2018 at 6:36 PM, garypl said:

What kind of paint do you use?

Awwww.. shucks

Tha's just some ole Fiebing's spirit dyes.  Thinned the red about 10:1 and thinned the black (USCG Rating) about 20:1.  And mix the green about 3 parts green, 1 part dark brown, 15 parts reducer (that green is too "loud" without teh brown tone).

Here what I dun did with the PAASCHE air hose connector :

[garypl]

3 hours ago, JLSleather said:

Awwww.. shucks

Tha's just some ole Fiebing's spirit dyes.  Thinned the red about 10:1 and thinned the black (USCG Rating) about 20:1.  And mix the green about 3 parts green, 1 part dark brown, 15 parts reducer (that green is too "loud" without teh brown tone).

Here what I dun did with the PAASCHE air hose connector :

I never thought that dyes would give such vibrant, defined colors and not bleed outside the area you are spraying.  I’ll have to play around a bit with my airbrush, but I don’t think I am capable of this kind of work (at least not now, will require a lot of practice to get close to this!)

 

[KingsCountyLeather]

15 hours ago, JLSleather said:

Awwww.. shucks

Tha's just some ole Fiebing's spirit dyes.  Thinned the red about 10:1 and thinned the black (USCG Rating) about 20:1.  And mix the green about 3 parts green, 1 part dark brown, 15 parts reducer (that green is too "loud" without teh brown tone).

Here what I dun did with the PAASCHE air hose connector :

When you’re mixing your colours... do you make a big batch of the colour so as you don’t have to mix it each time? And what are you using for your thinning? Beautiful work!

[JLSleather]

3 hours ago, KingsCountyLeather said:

do you make a big batch of the colour

I have 3-oz bottles for that particular green, because I use it often.  Some shades (the red and blue) are not critical, and I use less, so I have 1-oz bottles of those.  The brown shades, I use chocolate full-strength AND thinned - like on that fishin' wallet - full strength in the "cutouts" of teh horseshoe and thinned on the rest of the floral design.  So I have an old bottle of dye almost empty, I just buy another and add solvent to the old bottle, so some of those have 2-3 oz of "thinned" in them.

I had that happen a couple of times, where I mixed some "special" color for a request, did the project and had the customer all happy and going on about it.. then their friend decided they wanted one and I had to try to duplicate that color again after I dumped it.  So I always mix more than I need, and save for a bit after, but I don't plan to keep every mix all the time.  That shade of red on the welding logo was designed by the wife of the guy who owns the welding business... it's their co. logo, so had to be pretty durn close.  Incidentally, the large rose handbag is from an old Al Stohlman craftaid design ... just painted on a purse because it was laying there ...

Everything reduced is thinned with Fiebings Dye Reducer.  Its' a no-brainer, being MADE FOR THAT.

But I have used Angelus brand dyes also, and they are quite good. I don't generally keep a lot of that around, because they mix very well with other Angelus colors, but they do NOT like to be mixed with Fiebings dyes.  I've had some WEIRD results trying to mix teh two brands ... one holster that should have been a brown tone turned out almost GOLD .. shiny like metal ...

Maybe there's an answer in there somewhere...

[KingsCountyLeather]

4 hours ago, JLSleather said:

I have 3-oz bottles for that particular green, because I use it often.  Some shades (the red and blue) are not critical, and I use less, so I have 1-oz bottles of those.  The brown shades, I use chocolate full-strength AND thinned - like on that fishin' wallet - full strength in the "cutouts" of teh horseshoe and thinned on the rest of the floral design.  So I have an old bottle of dye almost empty, I just buy another and add solvent to the old bottle, so some of those have 2-3 oz of "thinned" in them.

I had that happen a couple of times, where I mixed some "special" color for a request, did the project and had the customer all happy and going on about it.. then their friend decided they wanted one and I had to try to duplicate that color again after I dumped it.  So I always mix more than I need, and save for a bit after, but I don't plan to keep every mix all the time.  That shade of red on the welding logo was designed by the wife of the guy who owns the welding business... it's their co. logo, so had to be pretty durn close.  Incidentally, the large rose handbag is from an old Al Stohlman craftaid design ... just painted on a purse because it was laying there ...

Everything reduced is thinned with Fiebings Dye Reducer.  Its' a no-brainer, being MADE FOR THAT.

But I have used Angelus brand dyes also, and they are quite good. I don't generally keep a lot of that around, because they mix very well with other Angelus colors, but they do NOT like to be mixed with Fiebings dyes.  I've had some WEIRD results trying to mix teh two brands ... one holster that should have been a brown tone turned out almost GOLD .. shiny like metal ...

Maybe there's an answer in there somewhere...

Very helpful! Thanks. I’ve just ordered an airbrush kit and looking forward to trying it out.

i didn’t realise that chocolate brown could have different shades when thinned.

Just now, KingsCountyLeather said:

Very helpful! Thanks. I’ve just ordered an airbrush kit and looking forward to trying it out.

i didn’t realise that chocolate brown could have different shades when thinned.

Does that mean I can get shades of grey from black dye?

[JLSleather]

47 minutes ago, KingsCountyLeather said:

Does that mean I can get shades of grey from black dye?

Yup.    

[KingsCountyLeather]

46 minutes ago, JLSleather said:

Yup.    

Cool!