Metallic Paint & Flat Paint for Leather Jackets

Video Transcript

"I mentioned metallic and flat paints. Let me just talk a little bit more about them. With flat paints, you're going to have to do probably do 2 or 3 coats to get really good coverage on the leather. With metallic you can get really good coverage on a first coat, but again, and especially with the brighter colors, you want to be really careful. You don't want it to end up looking cheesy. If you need to cover some spots or some imperfections on leather, a really great thing to do is to mix together some flat and metallic paint. Or you can use metallic paint that is lighter in color. This is a silver, which is really beautiful. You can do a whole patch of it and it's not overpowering as oppose to something like this, which would be sort of a little neon. They also have bronze, gold, and some other sort of more natural colors. I think that's the trick to keep it a little bit more natural. I would say play with the mixing of the metallic and the flat paint. Find a good consistency where it's not too bright and something that really works for your design. Really it's all about practicing and trying it out. Again like I said, try to get a piece of scrap leather or a really old jacket that you can practice on. It's really good to be able to do a little bit of the metallic if you can. Try it out. See what you think."