The following video short provides a brief, step-by-step guide on how to over-dye to achieve a beautiful, warm black mid-tone for midge bodies. Many of my followers have been asking how I achieve this color. Here's how I do it. I hope you enjoy it! Click on the above video to see a quick short I attended Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA,  for four years back in the late eighties. My painting instructor always told us that black is a “living color,” meaning there are colors that bring black depth and richness. Alizarin crimson, viridian, and indigo create life, depth, and chroma to black. Black is a chromatic color, and the variables are infinite. In the insect world, this is very true with beetles, midges, and many terrestrials like crickets. Quills are a mainstay for me, and I use them every single day for orders ranging from midges, caddis, mayfly emergers, and even my dragonfly patterns. So, let's get started. First, we are using an over-dyeing process. Overdy...