Vintage Handbag Painted Lilac

Vintage handbag painted lilac.

I have had this handbag for a while.

It was originally beige.

The beige had become dingy, and the bag was very much in need of an upgrade.

I don't quite remember how I chose to paint it lilac.

All I can recall is mixing red, white, and blue leather paint together.

In the course of painting, the handbag kept evolving into different shades of lilac.

Each time I painted one side of the bag, I let it dry before I began painting the other side.

Once it dried, the batch of paint that I had been using also dried.

I needed to remix, and make another batch of paint, and inevitably,  the new batch was not a match to the original color.

As such, I painted the entire bag three different times with the new color that I mixed each time.

I was finally able to paint the handbag the same shade all over.

How happy I was!

The paint job was now complete.

For the last several years, I have mainly painted with solid colors.

After mixing these three primary colors together when painting the bag, I'm excited to mix other colors.

As an example, mixing red with yellow creates orange.

Adding white to the orange makes the orange lighter.

Adding black, makes the orange darker.

This is true when adding white or black to any color.

There are so many color combinations to explore, and I look forward to experimenting with them all!