PATRICK CHARUEL

The Harley tank has received the regular preparation than two coats of black base and two coats of two parts clear. After drying time I have sand the surface with P800 wet grit paper to prep it for paint. The design will be just on the right tank side, so I put transfer paper on this side and protect the rest of the tank with craft paper. I print my butterfly design, cut it and outline the shape with thin black. I cut out all the design parts and remove the transfer tape from those areas. With very thin white, I paint all the parts in order to get a perfectly smooth white base. The butterfly is in the foreground and will be done later, I’ll start by painting the background first.

I place the main colours of the design: green for the leaves and orange for the fruit. I continue to paint the background with different shades of green and orange. I also start to paint the seeds into the fruits with brown. I give them more depth with orange, black, and yellow.

Here the result when I remove the butterfly stencil. With piec- es of transfer paper, I mask the leaves I just painted. With transparent Auto-Air blue colour I start to paint the butterfly. Don’t need to be precise; the goal is to place the main shapes of the butterfly.

I build slowly my butterfly by spraying alternatively: transpar- ent blue, transparent purple, iridescent blue. With white I add some high lights over the wings.Here you can see the end result. Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32