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vitix

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Originally Posted by Britalian
I believe the preferred nomenclature is black, brown, burgundy, tan, chestnut etc.
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The world is not B&W
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Originally Posted by Amar ezzahi
Beautiful work Vitix! I really like the "feuille d'automne" patina.

In the same direction but with a dark brown base, the picture is bad, apologize.
 

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Originally Posted by vitix
I started about a year ago with a standard box, kind of pale cognac.

My first color was a green bronze. Then I continued by customizing my own shoes. I showed my works on a forum and then I had clients since about 8 months.

I'll work for a new brand in about a month but I'll trie to continue my work on other brands.

I work on every box, I have to remove all creams and polish first with acetone or terebenthine.
Then I use special shoe paint "teinture aux drapeaux" AVEL. I combined red blue yellow and black. It depends on what I want to do.

I finish with coloured creams such as blue navy, burgundy, red, khaki, green... I polish the shoes with appropriate polish: burgundy, blue, black, yellow, uncolored...

Thanks for welcome


Awesome! Love the patina!
But I would hate to colour Lobbs or CJs at all.
I would like to see your other non conventional coloured works.
BTW how do I engage you to do the colouring of the shoes?
 

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Originally Posted by beasty
Awesome! Love the patina!
But I would hate to colour Lobbs or CJs at all.
I would like to see your other non conventional coloured works.
BTW how do I engage you to do the colouring of the shoes?


With this message I send images of non conventional colors...

I don't have a professionnal adress yet. But if you are interested send me a private message.

Originally Posted by mr monty

I wanted these, but my size was already sold.

http://www.yoox.com/item.asp?sec=1&Y...K&sts=sr_men80


I like these, more than the monks. I hope you'll be luckier next time.

Originally Posted by distinctive
Very nice sir, please do go into detail on this product and how it is used if you don't mind.

Thanks again,

The work is close to painting, but you have to deal with the leather. The most important is the basic color of the box. From this color depends what you can do. You can't do a white with black box, some colors are difficult to achieve: violine, grey.

You have several methods to "paint" the leather. You can do it with a large brush and lot of liquid. You can also do it with tiny brush and very few paint. You can use the same brush than those employed for acrylic painting, I mean synthetical brush.

For the colours, there are also many way to achieve. Sometime I use a plate to mix different colors. Sometime I use a syringe to drops few amonts of liquid to mix with base.

The best way to practice is to mix only two different colors, for exemple red and blue or blue and black. If I want a lighter color, I'll mix it with alcohol.

To apply the colors, you must start from the lighter and finish by the darker.
If you miss the result by too much, you can use alcohol to dissolve the paint but very carefully.








 

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Originally Posted by vitix
With this message I send images of non conventional colors...

I don't have a professionnal adress yet. But if you are interested send me a private message.



I like these, more than the monks. I hope you'll be luckier next time.



Thanks again,

The work is close to painting, but you have to deal with the leather. The most important is the basic color of the box. From this color depends what you can do. You can't do a white with black box, some colors are difficult to achieve: violine, grey.

You have several methods to "paint" the leather. You can do it with a large brush and lot of liquid. You can also do it with tiny brush and very few paint. You can use the same brush than those employed for acrylic painting, I mean synthetical brush.

For the colours, there are also many way to achieve. Sometime I use a plate to mix different colors. Sometime I use a syringe to drops few amonts of liquid to mix with base.

The best way to practice is to mix only two different colors, for exemple red and blue or blue and black. If I want a lighter color, I'll mix it with alcohol.

To apply the colors, you must start from the lighter and finish by the darker.
If you miss the result by too much, you can use alcohol to dissolve the paint but very carefully.


i like the colors of 18 and 20
 

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The 18 is made on a chocolate base markowski onecut, I passed few bleach on it. Then painted with violet purple mix and creamed with blue. The front is darker like the owner wanted it.

The 20 is made on a CJ pair of boots (last 361? don't remember but very thin). The base was a traditionnal CJ cognac. It has been strip with acetone. Then painted with medium purple/violet, creamed with violet. Would have been better with blue navy and violet cream.
 

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Originally Posted by vitix
The 18 is made on a chocolate base markowski onecut, I passed few bleach on it. Then painted with violet purple mix and creamed with blue. The front is darker like the owner wanted it.

The 20 is made on a CJ pair of boots (last 361? don't remember but very thin). The base was a traditionnal CJ cognac. It has been strip with acetone. Then painted with medium purple/violet, creamed with violet. Would have been better with blue navy and violet cream.


Hi,

Do the dyes come out after some time?
Also, have you tried multicolours on one shoe? For example blue blend to purple and blend to black at the back?
 

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The color is permanent. It's can be only distorted by chemicals products such as acetone or 90% alcohol solution or bleach. It's as long lasting as the colors made by industrials.
The tint goes inside leather, deaper than cream or polish.
I've never done what you told. But this is possible, Corthay do such a tint called Capuccino from ardillat to black. I ordered them one pair like this and I'll receive it in January, then I could show it.

Anyway, I send a picture of a sample of leather tinted from light red to blue. I made this sample to test the quality of a leather to be tinted.
 

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Originally Posted by vitix
The color is permanent. It's can be only distorted by chemicals products such as acetone or 90% alcohol solution or bleach. It's as long lasting as the colors made by industrials.
The tint goes inside leather, deaper than cream or polish.
I've never done what you told. But this is possible, Corthay do such a tint called Capuccino from ardillat to black. I ordered them one pair like this and I'll receive it in January, then I could show it.

Anyway, I send a picture of a sample of leather tinted from light red to blue. I made this sample to test the quality of a leather to be tinted.


I think Corthay have the whole shoes in brown with the front and back darker to black in colour. What I meant was the whole shoe changing in colour from blue to purple to black.
Also, if you apply shoe cream to it say in yellow or bronze does it also change the colour?
 

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Do you use neutral coloured cream/polish to shine coloured shoes?
 

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It doesn't really change the colour. But the cream help and can turn a violet to navy blue or cognac to medium brown. It can also make the color of leather darker not the opposite.

Turn from blue to purple to black is possible. It will be nicer if the purple is darker and the black finish it.
 

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Originally Posted by mr monty
Do you use neutral coloured cream/polish to shine coloured shoes?

It depends. I like to use the yellow MO saphir to glaze which doesn't make the shoe darker. I don't like dark glazing. I use neutral cream usually to feed leather, alternately with colored.
 

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