Dye/Neatsfoot oil first or paint first

[Tomex09]

Making a bag for my daughter and it has a butterfly on the front that I am going to paint. Questions is do I dye it first then paint or paint then dye? 

[fredk]

Either; dye or paint first, but oil last. If you dye first you'll have more vibrant paint colours, if you paint first you'll need to put a resist on the paint work but the dye might still tone down the colours a bit

[Tomex09]

Ok I know it took a couple of coats of paint to get it like it is in the pic. I didn’t know if the paint would show up if I dyed it darker. 

[fredk]

If its regular acrylic paint you're using, put down a coat or two of matt white first [after the dyeing]