This painting of a Indian design on a acoustic guitar will be be accomplished by scraping, erasing and sanding in order to
rendered only with black acrylic colour. All the white areas will remove some black paint and create some texture.
To prepare the guitar surface I sand it By free hand and with a very over re- Here the picture of the first stage finished.
with 1200 dry sanding paper. Then I duced black I spray the main shadows of As you can see the colour is very thin but
wash it with a glass cleaner followed by the face. With hand made stencils I de- you can already see what is your Indian
an anti silicon product. I spray a white au- fine the wrinkles around the mouth. With face will be like. To define the wrinkles I
tomotive acrylic base coat over the guitar. a razor blade, eraser, sand paper and spray a thin coat of black then I erase it,
With a Frisket sheet I cut the darker and knife I scrape the surface I’ve just paint to apply more colour and so on until I get
the main parts of the Indian face and out- create the skin and wrinkle texture. the right effect I’m looking for.
line it with a reduced black acrylic paint.
I continue by the same way to define the To finish the face I concentrate on the Now I will focus on feathers. With vinyl
face. I bring slowly dark colour over all the wrinkles and scrape the borders to add transfer paper I mask the feathers and
design by using alternately my airbrush more depth. With erasers and sand pa- cut them with a hobby knife. I spray the
and erasing tools. I spay quickly the hair per I increase the contrast between the feathers starting with the background
and the headdress. To get the background black and light points. My Indian chief feathers and working to the foreground
down I spray thin black and scrape it with has to be old enough but not too much. feathers. Always by the same technique
my knife. With more thin black I give more In my eyes he is suppose to represent I give a more realistic look by scraping
contrast to the entire design. the strength but also the wisdom. I con- and spraying colour. With the hobby knife
centrate on the light contrast until I get I add more detail to the feathers by re-
a burned skin tone, craggy by the sun.
moving some of the black paint.
When the face is finished I spray acrylic
fixative to protect the design.
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