Re: [VFB] Fabric paint use on flies?

[Wes Wada]

Many thanks to Tony, Rene, Bill and Jim for their comments about using fabric paint in fly tying. If you've never looked at the racks of fabric paint at at place like Michael's Craft Store and scratched your head and wondered, you ought to...lots of stuff to play with.

Contrasting backs, wing cases and buds, hot spots, shell backs, and yes...eyes would be some of the uses. A friend dips the butt of a feather fiber in this stuff and sticks it to the fly body for legs on a caddis larvae. Loved the ant and lady bug done from puffy paint that Rene showed from his fly collection.

Wes Wada
Bend, Oregon


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