STREET TRENZ MAGAZINE CORVETTE by
Richard markham
On this particular job I think I painted faster than the car goes. by New York’s finest Golden Customs. Once visiting this shop
To get this car designed, laid out, and the whole paint scheme I knew I was in the home of some of the wildest and most cre-
executed in time for it’s revealing in Las Vagas at the CES show ative minds on the East Coast. Let alone the quality was second
we had to work quick and efficiently. So that’s why I decided to to none.
pull in some extra help on this project. Jose Sanchez of J-Graph- So now with all else aside it was now time to let the paint fly, and
ics was a perfect choice to help tag team this beast, created tame this beast.
Step 1. The first thing you need to do on any automotive surface before you
begin is to clean the whole surface with a degreaser to remove any dirt, grease,
oils, or contaminants from the surface so you will have good adhesion and no
problems such as fish eye etc. in your base coats or clear coat.
Step 2. With this particular project we had to lay down some masking and then
cut and peel out the inside areas in which we only want the paint to be. When
masking off the areas I use a low tack transfer paper, then when cutting out the
design I use a brand new blade and hold the blade so that I am using more of the
edge of the blade and less of the point of the blade. This will help to prevent cut
marks or scouring in your basecoat underneath.
Step 3. Once I had cut out and exposed the whole area where the artwork was
to go. It was time to roughly sketch out the artwork. I had decided ahead of time,
by doing some test panels, that I was going to use the exiting base color of the
vehicle as the base color of my art work, so instead of the next step being to lay
down a different color base I was able to jump ahead to sketching out the Giger
style,biomichanical artwork.
For this I used a opaque projector, some references, to this type of artwork and
a soft lead pencil.
Step 4. I begin the painting process by adding a nice coat of Auto Air’s [semi
opaque flame orange]. We had decided on adding just a little bit of color to help
tie our paint scheme into our stereo sponsors colors (Power Bass) which were
orange, and black.
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