A quick and sloppy color sketch for an upcoming painting - the final will be 3′ x 5′, done with One Shot Enamel (the same stuff you use for pinstriping cars) on board. I took a pinstirping class from this crazy old school car dude, and while I don’t think I am going to be a professional pinstriper anytime soon, I really like the technique.
Enamel is a new medium for me - I’m trying new stuff to get the glossy surfaces I want - and it’s super toxic, so I am wearing gloves and a respirator. Yes, I look like I am fighting aliens while I paint.
I am going to start working with an airbrush as well (as soon as the right one shows up - grr, Dick Blick, grrr), and I really wanted to work with auto body paint, but I found out that it causes straight up sterility in women, so… yeah, no. I found some water-based auto paint, and I’m going to try that out and see how I like it.

I’ll post pictures of the painting progress on Wednesday.

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