Painting on dyed leather

[Jason046]

I am trying to find the best dye to paint on top of. I am using fiebings dye and painting on it with Angelus paints but it always takes more coats than I would like to cover. I have seen videos of people painting over they're dyed work with ease. Is there a trick to it?

[Fire88]

If your using a brush it, it just takes layers. One trick I use is to go over it with a coat of white paint or acrylic dye then paint the color you want. 

If doing things like letter you can paint with bottles that use needles.

[Jason046]

Thanks, I will give that a try

[Fire88]

13 hours ago, Jason046 said:

Thanks, I will give that a try

Let us know if that works out.

[Jason046]

Small world fire88, I read up on your posts and see you got a cb 3200. I have been researching a good machine to get and this is the one I think I have narrowed it down to. If you don' mind me asking how much was it for everything you needed here and what do you think about it. I really like the heavy thread and how my stuff looks hand sewn. Was hoping for a close match

[Firewalker]

I agree with Fire in using a base coat of white then going over it with your colors.  Some of them build very slowly but I have found that using thin layers and taking my time gives the best results.  I am in no way a painter but this is what I came up with using Angelus Paint over a water stain with pearl additive.  All the best!

Scott

[Jason046]

Thanks, great work Scott