Painting camo?

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Buck268

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Well, I'm thinking about trying to paint up a few things in that blaze orange camo pattern. Ya know, the orange back ground with the black outlines on it. Maybe do a bicycle or something; should be highly visible.

Only thing is, I have very limited experience with 'artistic' (or skilled) painting. Don't get me wrong, I know my way around a rattle car and have touched up numberous rust spots and such... Just never with the goal being asthetics. Any tips or such for painting a camo styled pattern?
 
I've done some camo jobs with spray cans that looked good and worked well. I use ferns and leaves as stencils. Pick fern/leaf. Lay it across surface to be painted. Spray. This was all using greens, browns and blacks. Try it on a piece of scrap plywood and see how it looks with orange.
 
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^ Scott Free (Mr. Miracle of New Gods :D ?) upstairs beat me too.

Think of outlines of materials that you wanna "superimpose" on top of the frame.
 
Rent the movie Shooter starring Mark Wahlberg. Other than being a fair action flick, there's a nice scene where the hero is shown painting his own camo patterns using various leaves and some spray paint.
 
Start with a base of your lightest color and use the local foliage for the stencil, going over it with your darkest color. Then run over that with some other colors, using different leaves. Afterwards you can touch it up if you want with some small slashes and dots.



 
hmm, that does look good... But would it be that effective on a bike frame? Definately easier than doing a woodland pattern; suppose one would need something of an artistic touch for that.
 
I reccomend doing a base of your orange than doing slashes with black. Do some slashes from a 5inch distance, do others from a 3 foot distance. That way you'll have distinct lines that provide contrast and hazy ones that obscure the shape.
 
when i worked for the nat'l guard we did a lotta painting and when it came to camo stuff IIRC they didnt look for anyone particularly artistic lol.

now if ya wanted to freehand a specific pattern, maybe so, but they didnt really do that on much,
 
Orange first, black on top.
Soft edges "hide" & hard edges stand out.

Bikes are hard because there aren't any large areas to paint & establish a pattern.
Maybe stripes that are all parallel?
Or think Tiger?

Good luck with it and be sure to post some pics.
 
Just gotta find some time... Got a winter bike that needs, personalized, and a blaze orange style camo would definately maintain high visibility!
 
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