Just what it needed... nice job
Posted by Todd Gill (Member # 2569) on :
Wow George! The symetry and design is a knockout! Awesome job.
Posted by jake snow (Member # 5889) on :
Man that is nice! Very nice job George.
Posted by Clinton Cooper (Member # 6802) on :
AMAZING WORK!!
Posted by Donald Thompson (Member # 3726) on :
That is some great work George.
Posted by Mark Matyjakowski (Member # 294) on :
Can't be that ratty ... I don't see a ding or spot of rust, barely a watermark on the chrome. Does just painting a car flat black make it a rat rod? Clean, tight designs. Less is more ... very nice.
Posted by Bobbie Rochow (Member # 3341) on :
George that is really beautiful!!! And very inspiring for me!
Want to ask... do you take a pattern with you to transfer to the vehicle, or do you draw it up with a stabilo? And if you use a pattern, do you pounce it on?
I "cranked out" a quickie panel for my brother late Saturday & gave it to him to hang in his new garage wall. Men seem to like "swirlie-striper" panels for their garages, & it is such good, fun practice!
Posted by George Perkins (Member # 156) on :
Bobbie, I used fine line tape as guides on the headlights and a simple grid on the decklid. Since this car was primer, I used chalk for the grid, stabillos don't clean off primer very easily.
I sometimes use a pounce pattern on intricate designs on taligates. You can cheat and fold the pattern in two, or in quarters, layout one part and when you pounce it you will get a perfectly symetrical design. The drawback to using a pattern when striping is you tend to wipe the design off with your fingers. It's best to go over the pounce lines with a stabillo.
Posted by Craig Sjoquist (Member # 4684) on :
inpirering and awesome .....THANK YOU & ENJOY LIFE
Posted by Bobbie Rochow (Member # 3341) on :
Thank you George, for the pointers. I really do appreciate them!
Hey, I am getting so inspired, like I don't want to quit! One night a couple of weeks ago, I was actually dreaming of myself striping, & in the dream, every line, every effert was close up, like I was learning in my sleep.
A customer gave me his mailbox to letter with vinyl, then last nite I went & put a nice swirlie design on it that I got from my Vector Art cd., & delivered it today. He really liked it!
The thing I find the hardest are the actual swirled circles! I watched Dan use a Swirlie Q brush on my box at the Zoo, then went & bought myself one, & can't get it to do that! Lol! Guess I have to keep at it!
Posted by Rene Giroux (Member # 4980) on :
Classy...
Posted by Raymond Chapman (Member # 361) on :
Nice work, George.
Bobbie - Isn't it funny how that works? I've bought those same brushes and never can seem to get them to work like I see the other guys doing. I must have got a defective brush!
Posted by Bobbie Rochow (Member # 3341) on :
I don't get the brushes to work like those guys do either! Someday.....
And Ray, I think I should have taken your hand lettering class at the Zoo, because I'm really shaky at that!!!!
Posted by Deb Fowler (Member # 1039) on :
George, you do beautiful work. Your design and color choices really enhance the car. What kind of car is it?
