How to airbrush a bonnet mural - loads of techniques [a project log]

Looking superb so far mate. I love it when I come across a thread like this (Especially when I'm in work) :)
 
Really sorry guys, I've been busy on other things lately. please find attached.... the next part :)


part 4?

Where would one of my projects be without some fire? I'm following the theme of a demo bonnet, and the next effect is some green realistic fire. I want it to look like a fast blaze, so I'm doing it slightly different to I normally would. It's going to end up as just background cover, so I'm not paying too much attention to the middle.



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This picture shows the first 3 steps. The first step is to spray a loose, wide pattern which will form the base for the flames. This is done with straight green paint.
Next everything is covered with a dark green candy (see right hand side of pic)

next step is to start adding large suggestions of flame licks. I'm using the same green as in step one. It looks pretty bad until the candy goes over it.

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this is the difference that the candy makes, you can see where i've applied it. It's important to panel wipe clean and tack rag between every stage of painting fire, as the overspray mounts up and you end up with a surface similar to sandpaper if you dont!

The candy I'm using is a slightly brighter shade of dark green.


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Next I use a straight lime green paint and add new shapes over the top of the old ones. these will form the base for the final shapes.

Everything gets coated with an even brighter, yet still reasonably dark candy green.


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This is when the flames start to take a little more shape. I'm using a bright yellow now (warmer than greener) thinned down to 'be careful it doesn’t run' thickness. I sharpen up some of the last step, ad high points and add some new shapes in certain places. I also go back to the skulls as they felt the benefit of green candy, so I add some more yellow in there and join some of the flames up to the tops.

You will notice that the skulls keep changing colours, they will probably be the last things I finish.

To kill off the sharpness of this yellow, the next step (next instalment) will see the flames being finished by adding yellow candy, white and more candy.

I'm waiting for delivery of some masking film before I start the next feature.
 
My word, I wouldn't have it on my car but that is pure art. What would you usually charge someone for a piece like this?
 
Stonking effort so far, really impressed. Your skills make me jealous and I wish I'd applied myselft to my fagtastic arty side more before I drived into full time work and have no energy or inspiration to do what I loved doing once upon a time.

Looking forward to the next update :)
 
grudas said:
wow...

how much do you charge for such thing?
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I'd swap such a thing for a more reliable car

*touch wood* *everytime I say something bad about my car something else happens to it*

thanks for the comments guys, the postie has just come with some supplies for me, so I'll get cracking this afternoon again.
 
Hate said:
off topic - but another one of the 512 lives in Brighton, just round the corner from me.
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Such guy I believe used to live at the bottom of our close in Shoreham not too long ago. Assuming the cars are that rare and it's the same guy.
 
Simply awesome.

I've been a pro painter for around 14 years now, but wouldn't know where to start with airbrushing. Let's hope you find the time to get it finished as I'm sure the finish article will be even more amazing than those stunning WIP pictures.
 
jellybeard999 said:
Looks both awful and great at the same time :D
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He He, I know mate, not everyones cup of tea - I never said it would be. Glad your kind of enjoying it though :)


paintguy said:
Simply awesome.

I've been a pro painter for around 14 years now, but wouldn't know where to start with airbrushing. Let's hope you find the time to get it finished as I'm sure the finish article will be even more amazing than those stunning WIP pictures.
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Hey mate, I should be finished sooner than I hope, just little projects keep coming up everytime I get stuck in.
I'm goign to have to outsource the clearcoat on this one, there are pro painters around here but no one finds clearcoating artwork easy and I often get turned away for fear of it being ruined :( . have you tried it?



update....

The next few stages are hard to capture, so while I wait for my batteries to charge to get some better pictures, I'll go through it with what I've got.


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So I left you just after giving the flames some highlights with a straight yellow paint. This yellow looks pretty harsh so I tone it down with some yellow candy.

I know, I know your probably wondering why I'm covering bright yellow paint with bright yellow candy... What it does, is melts the very edge of the spray pattern of the yellow paint. The stuff that's not intentional, but not quite overspray. When the yellow candy is applied it kind of melts this dusty overspray stuff and blends it in with the rest of the paint, as well as taking the edge off the yellow paint and generally saturating the colour. It's a bit like putting tyre shine on your car's tyres.



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I let the yellow candy dry off and then go in with a 50/50 yellow / white mix. it appears white when you spray it on but it has just enough yellow to not make it too harsh. All I'm doing here is just adding the last little high spots, and giving it more depth up front.

I add highlights to the skulls too, they have come on leaps and bounds recently.

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I go over all of this with the same bright yellow candy. It appears to have made no difference, but it has actually made quite a large difference.



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Finally I thin down the yellow/white mix and very very gently add hints of white - in the words of Bob Ross, god rest his soul, "Just a whisper"

the trick here is jus apply enough to create the effect, but not too much otherwise I will get that overspray I was talking about earlier, and the funny shade of yellow that it is, will make it look weird. I'm not planning on adding any more candy over this lot.

I do the same for the skulls, but I can be a little more liberal here.

Next part should be quite cool guys, not long to go now!
 
was gonna upload soem more pics, but I'm going to call it a night.

I forgot that the last step of the flames was to go in with black and shade the skulls / erase parts of the flames

goodnight

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