I posted this over on the Auto Art board and never got the answer. I would like to find a tutorial/step by step, whatever, on how to paint a realistic looking feather using brushes only.
It's been done at meets and somehow I've missed it. Can anybody help? I've been doing bike events and I've gotten a couple of requests for feathers. Not knowing how, I've had to pass I've tried some here at the house and they're close but not sellable.
Posted by Michael Boone (Member # 308) on :
a neat trick is to do one with gold..... burnish in the individual strands...and stem then shade with asphaltum tints outline with complimentary colors...depending on background remember...there is no computer uniformity in nature
Posted by Dave Sherby (Member # 698) on :
I saw it years ago at a meet, but it's been a long time. All I remember was that you load two colors side by side on the same side of a short flat artist brush. You turn the brush slightly as you pull. I'd like to see the technique again myself to refresh my memory.
Posted by Dana Stanley (Member # 6786) on :
Take pics of some you like and reverse engineer it. You can figure it out if your looking right at it George. Then work it into your own style.
[ May 13, 2008, 04:26 PM: Message edited by: Dana Stanley ]
Posted by old paint (Member # 549) on :
didnt monty do some of them at pat kings meet????
Posted by Jon Butterworth (Member # 227) on :
Monte is the Guru of feathers!
He showed me how at Fred's Meet. But let the master explain how. This "student" is still in awe of his skill and speed!
Posted by Ian Stewart-Koster (Member # 3500) on :
Mike Lavallee also does them- and I think there's a photographic setp-by-step of him doing it in his way in one of the bigger striping books currently available- it might be Bob Bond's one, or another one.
Posted by Dave Grundy (Member # 103) on :
George..I, too, remember watching Monte doing feathers at Jimmy.
Just drive down to I-40 and head west for a few hours..Ya can't miss his place!! LOL
Had to do a search to find Millington. Hell we were just across the river from you the last 2 years.Shoulda waved at you as we went by on 1-55 Posted by Monte Jumper (Member # 1106) on :
Hi George...I could sure show you how to do em...Mike Lavalle showed me and when I called him and told him I had it down to about 10 minutes each he said call me back when you can do it in 2.
lol...well I sat down and did over 150 of them as gifts for one of Fred's meets a few years back ( I sometimes wonder how many are still out there)...by time I was done with that i had them down to about a minute.
I'm trying to think how I can tell you in an e-mail but I haven't figured it out yet ...bear with me I'll try and do it here in a few days.
One thing Mike has always said to me (and other) that may help you along "Work dark to light and loose to tight". Keeping that in mind will help you along.
I talk to you soon!
[ May 15, 2008, 08:08 AM: Message edited by: Monte Jumper ]
Posted by George Perkins (Member # 156) on :
Thanks Monte, I remember at one meet you telling me how you had learned it and how easy it was. I'm the world's worst at missing these demos. Was that at one of Joey Hutson's meets?
Posted by old paint (Member # 549) on :
monte, you got a digital camera? some of them will do VIDEO recording. or you got a digtital video camera? set up camera on a tripod, paint one feather and you can either post it on here or email it to george....or make a VHS tape and send to him.....maybe a few might even buy a copy.....
Posted by Rick Sacks (Member # 379) on :
Where's Adrienne? She knows the skinny.
Posted by Monte Jumper (Member # 1106) on :
Check your e-mail George...let me know if there is anything else I can do
Hope it helps!
[ May 17, 2008, 08:47 AM: Message edited by: Monte Jumper ]
Posted by Ellen Day Cutting (Member # 5365) on :
still on display in our home and LOVE IT! like all the gifts from our extended Sign Buddy Family!
Posted by George Perkins (Member # 156) on :
Thanks Monte, that is just what I need. I'll get to practicing tomorrow.
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I've tried some here at the house and they're close but not sellable.
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