New Tool to my growing Armada of Creation (Registered Trademark Pending)

So here's the new baby to the armada......just wait and see It's a Paasche VL3, sold as a kit and bought from a woodworker in Antigonish County. Originally sells for about $200-$250 Canadian, I got the whole deal for $64, postage in. Haven't sparked her up yet, but it's just a matter of a day......muhahahaha

Creepy Portrait Phase 3

At this point, I took a table runner that I had laying around and I put it over top of the portrait and then rattle can sprayed white through it in an attempt to make a 'wallpaper' pattern on the back wall of the portrait. Again, forgot to mask the face, so it's over his face as well.

The amount of paint at this point has hidden the X pattern underneath the paper. We're talking about 8-9 layers of paint including the lace pattern here.

Work in layers.....that way you can keep hiding mistakes.

I suppose for the next piece where I use lace, I'll either really cut the pattern on the repeating edge better or just use one whole piece all at once. I really like the effect, but would like to do more with it.

Creepy Portrait Phase 2

The green was just a lay down for colour. After I saw it, I immediately got tired of it and decided to go with a plain white skull. The aura of the white was bugging me so I took a paint brush to it and cartooned the edges a bit, but alas, paint was too wet and it dripped all over....lesson learned again.

In this picture you can still see the tape used to hold the two pieces together in an X pattern. Also, the little tears and rips that happened were something I couldn't fix, and decided to keep. Though those X lines had to go.

A few layers of paint and the next step would clean that all up as you see in later pics.

Creepy Portrait Phase 1

Inspired from Dave Lowe's Design Blog, I decided to try my hand making one of these. Part airbrushing, part sculpture and memory of aging items, this is a practice in a few skills.
Besides, it's Halloween, the time you get to be a kid again.
I started off with a large format of printer paper (18.5" by 24") that I rescued from work. It comes as part of the packaging for one of the supplies I use weekly and I just can't stand throwing out a piece that large. I also had some old political campaign signs that I had laying around (Part of this project is the PURGING of supplies from my room/studio).

I adhered 2 of the signs (coroplast) together to make a piece large enough for the paper. I then took the crumpled up paper, and simply soaked it in a bowl of water, wrung it out and after applying glue stick to the whole of the coroplast, and applying the paper on it. The wet activated the glue stick and kept the wrinkles. The goal here was to keep it looking aged. After rolling a bottle around on it, I got most of the wrinkles to lay flat and hide the seams and rows from the coroplast.

I then put down a layer of black and sketched out the figure ROUGHLY with conte.

Honestly, at this point, I was 6 beers into my night and now remember why I don't start the line work at this STATE of my night....lol.

I remember liking his goofy grin, but starting to dislike the green.

I got the general idea on the board, and that was the goal.

Airbrushed mask

from start to finish.

2 varieties of finish. One is kinda old bronze, another old steel look.

My Mastercard thing

Paasche H Air Brush: $70

2 Cans of Propellant: $40

3 Bottles for Paint: $10

Hose Adapter for Propellant Cans: $10

4 Bottles of Pigment: $30

1 Bottle of Paint Medium: $15

Extra Hose to attach to Propellant Can: $5

Adapters for new hose,old hose and adapters sync: $25

Finding out that the money you spent adapting to a can of propellant costs more than buying an air compressor in the first place: Fucking Priceless