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Necessary materials

Finisher: Fiebing's brand Neutral Resolene

Piece of leather you wish to dye (test before with scraps)

Basic airbrush

Sponge

Water

Leather dye

Dropper to pour the dye into the airbrush

Many types of airbrushes can be used, but in this case we use one of the most basic ones (it can cost between 30 and 40 euros approximately).

Steps to dye leather with an airbrush

The first thing to do is to pour the leather dye directly into the airbrush with the eyedropper and simply check that it works as it should.

After this we start to dye the leather keeping the same pressure during the whole time and do not press too much, as little dye has to come out. This can be done with different tones, usually darker at the edges and less dark in the centre or apply more dye at the edges and blend it so that there is less dye in the centre.
At the beginning it is advisable to make longer strokes, especially at the edges to give uniformity.

Aplicando tinte por los bordes

Then we polish the central part making the gradient. (Remember that when it dries after dyeing, the colour loses a little bit of intensity, it always becomes a little bit lighter.)
To finish we have to apply a layer of finisher that in this case we will apply a neutral resolene of the brand Fiebing's, it looks very good, as it is not very shiny.

To apply the finisher we have to take a sponge and wet it in water and wring it out and then we do the same with the dye, we apply the sponge as many times as necessary to leave it in the layer of colour we want.

In conclusion:

As you can see, the technique for dyeing leather with an airbrush is easy to apply and also requires materials that are not difficult to obtain.

It is a simple technique, if you do it several times you will master the technique and you will get very homogeneous colours. This technique can also be done in other ways without an airbrush, but it is much better with an airbrush and the transitions are much higher.

So if you want to dye leather, you will have no problem dyeing it with our guide on how to dye with airbrush, it gives a totally personalised and very good result.