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 4

Well I was in the zone and didn't take any pictures until it was done. Previously, the 'eyes' that were cut out was really just a piece of paper with 2 dots on it taped to the wall behind the image. After a quick trip to the dollar store, I picked up a few tennis balls (as well as a huge assortment of other things that I *thought* I needed) that I cut in half, sprayed the inside white and then added a quick dot of black to for the pupil. That's the magic of the whole portrait As you move around the room, the eyes seem to follow you around.....ooOOOoooooo scary.
I sprayed down the white wallpaper with a deep red after masking the face (HA HA! Learned a lil sumthin' from before) and darkened it up a bit.....Ok, a lot. Then I masked the background, and rattle can sprayed the head again to blank it out and re-did it. The left side of the face is a bit too pointy for my liking, and as this is still a practice/fuck around stage, I can still tweak it a bit.
The frame I used is an old one I salvaged from a restaurant I used to work at and was being used as an inspiration frame in the bathroom. Basically a collection of magazine clippings and such, held onto chicken wire with clothespins. The problem is that the portrait is about 1 1/2" too narrow for it to fit perfect, so I'm debating either building a new frame from cardboard/coroplast or making a matte *shudder* for this.
Well, at least the wallpaper look is still there, though muted. To realign that would be a pain in the ass, but not all that much work really. I'll look at that and maybe bring it back up a bit.

That left cheek bone is driving me batty, so that's gotta go. Though the right one has a wicked level of shading on it and I'm quite pleased with it.

Perhaps a bit more detailing on the neck/shirt collar portion. I left that area cause my eyes were going crossed.

And finally, around the eyes needs a lot of work. Not so much the surface, which frankly is fine by me for having NO referance photos, but the actual cut edges need to either be cleaned up a bit OR simply painted black and allowed to be rough.

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.

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