How to Pinstripe By Ray "el Vago" Smith Page 3
I'm adding a few more lines to fill in the design a bit. Not too many because we're going to add a second color. |
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This shows the completed first color design. You could leave it like that or you could add a second or even third) color. The second color I will be using is Fire Red only because it provides a pretty good contrast for the white against the gray. Color selection is a whole other ball game which I'm not going to get into here.
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I take a brushful of paint and lay it on the palette a glossy junk mail catalog that my wife gets hundreds of
daily.BTW don't use these if you're using HOK paints because the thinners will eat the ink right off the paper and contaminate your
paint) an dip the brush in some thinner either mineral spirits or 1-Shot reducer) and
work the brush back and forth through the paint alternating from one side of the brush to the
other. I repeat this process until I feel the brush slipping through the mixture
smoothly. Then I check the point of the brush to make sure it's nice and thin. If
the point looks like it's swelled up a bit, the paint is too thin and will spread out and make a ragged
line. Add more paint and re-palette until it's nice and sharp. It's then ready to work. |
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I add a little red into the design trying to keep it as simple as possible. |
The finished product! |
I know this is by no means a complete guide to striping but rather the way I go about doing a design.
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