how to get the marble effect..

[blktransam]

doing another body for my 8ight

heres the color scheme for it
faskolor flourascent green
faskolor flourascent yellow
faskolor flourescent orange

the front will be the "drip" effect about 3/7 the way down the body and INSIDE of the "drip" for about the first 1/4-1/2 down will be "ghost flames" actually the flames will just have fasgliter inside them to offset them from the base green used for the drip are you with me?

then the rest will be the yellow

and the orange will be used for the window outlines, as well in the "grove" down the side of the body


this is the proline crowdpleaser body if your confused google the body?

anyways I want to use the marble effect inside the "drip" on the green..any suggestions or tips.

[CarbonMadness]

Well you could use a plastic bag, saran wrap, sponge, or newspaper.

Method 1, first you spray the paint on as a wet coat, and dab it off with the bag (the bag should be in a lose ball), let dry and back with your other color.

Method 2, same as method 1, only with paper instead of plastic.

Method 3, poor a small amount of paint on to a paper plate (or similar), and take your plastic bag that is waded up, and dab that in to your paint, get some of the access paint off by dabbing it on your plate (until you get you desired look), and dab that onto the body, let dry, back it with second color

Method 4, same as method 3, only you use a sponge instead of plastic

Method 5, spray wet coat, apply saran wrap over your painted area, move it around until you get your desired results, let dry with the plastic left on the body, when dry remove plastic and back with second color. (I will call this the CFX method, as that one is on that site)

Method 6, apply wet coat, get a piece of crumbled up newspaper, dab off paint, let dry, back with second color.

That should cover most of the methods that you can use, and if you want your marble more then one color you just repeat the process for each color before applying your backing color.

[blktransam]

hmmm what would you back with it? black?

[CarbonMadness]

Your backing color would be a contrasting lighter color then the base color (color up front). So say you used red, and then your backing color could be yellow, orange, white, pink, etc. So if you used green, then white, yellow, a lighter green, sky blue, or what ever else might work would be your baking color. However you can back with a darker color if you want, but seeing that you are using fluorescents then you will want to try to keep the second color on the lighter side.

[blktransam]

okay I will try and back it with yellow...see how that turns out, were can I buy sheets of lexan for practice?

[CarbonMadness]

One more thing, when using light colors or “bright” colors (like fluorescents) it is a good idea to back that with white to make the colors pop. So you would spray marble color 1, marble color 2 (what I was referring to as the backing color), and the main backing color.

[blktransam]

yeah I know all that "normal" painting stuff, just havent done the marble effect before :D

[hijacker]

Ryan - you don't need to buy lexan to practice with, just cut a 2 liter soda bottle in half and paint on the inside.

Chad

[blktransam]

good idea chad! thanks

Ryan

[gkcontra]

You can also pick up pre cut lexan sheets at Home Depot, I bought 2 that are 10 X 15 that way i can try out a couple different color attempts and compare side by side before washing them off. i think both peices were $5-6 tops.