Placing the jeans material paint side down onto the tank surface I go over the material with a small paint roller this will transfer the pattern onto our tank sur- face. This you will have to play around with but the more pressure you apply to the roller the more pro- nounced the jeans pattern will turn out to be. I’m not after the exact same pattern over the entire surface as with an old pair of jeans some areas are darker or lighter than others. Here is a picture of how much paint coverage on the material worked best for me with this technique.


Now with several different transparent blue colors I work on adding more color to my jeans pattern. With the darker trans- parent blue I work on further defining the folds and seams in my pattern with the light transparent blues I work on the lighter areas of the pattern.


With a 000 fine art paintbrush I add the white stitching to the seams in the jean pattern. At this point I also add some shadow- ing to help define the seams better.


Happy with my jeans pattern I remove the masking from the areas on the sides of the tank where the labels will be and mask off the jeans pattern. I apply a base coat of sand acrylic paint to the label areas and allow it to dry. To create a irregular base color look to the label areas I use airbrush cleaner applied to pa- per and lightly rub the over the sand color paint I just applied.


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