Anyone fancy a Posca Pen, decorate an instrument challenge?

paulnb57

Must note for anyone using Posca, don’t seal your artwork with PVA type artist varnish, the paint disolves.....ask me how I know!.......

Halfords Clear Lacquer is fine though....

DrBob

paulnb57 said:

Must note for anyone using Posca, don’t seal your artwork with PVA type artist varnish, the paint disolves.....ask me how I know!.......

Halfords Clear Lacquer is fine though....

Noted, as the “artists” on this project are 12 & 14 yr old girls who have been cooped up away from their friends for 2 1/2 months they’re already emotionally quite highly strung. I don’t imagine they would take watching their masterpieces running off of the face of the guitar body all that well...

paulnb57

DrBob said:

paulnb57 said:

Must note for anyone using Posca, don’t seal your artwork with PVA type artist varnish, the paint disolves.....ask me how I know!.......

Halfords Clear Lacquer is fine though....

Noted, as the “artists” on this project are 12 & 14 yr old girls who have been cooped up away from their friends for 2 1/2 months they’re already emotionally quite highly strung. I don’t imagine they would take watching their masterpieces running off of the face of the guitar body all that well...

I did a few “Pop Art ish mini canvases of family dogs, thought this morning I’d seal them all and get them in the post, poured a small puddle of she who lives by the sinks artist pva varnish onto one and started spreading it with the brush, I was delighted to see my amateurish design strat to dissolve......shit or bust, ran it under the tap, saved! but needs touching up......
This gives an idea of what I did , the one I cocked up is drying outdoors, while I sulk!

DrBob

Like the colour choices Paul 

DrBob

Right Thing 1 has entered the fray

https://i.imgur.com/ueCSQTc.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/lCbaDya.jpg

although she is already flouting the rules of the challenge by mixing paint pens with actual acrylic paint 

DrBob

Thing 2 has yet to take up the pens because basically if it isn’t Animal Crossing what’s the point ? 

paulnb57

DrBob said:

Right Thing 1 has entered the fray

https://i.imgur.com/ueCSQTc.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/lCbaDya.jpg

although she is already flouting the rules of the challenge by mixing paint pens with actual acrylic paint 

Superb!

mrkb

DrBob said:

Right Thing 1 has entered the fray

https://i.imgur.com/ueCSQTc.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/lCbaDya.jpg

although she is already flouting the rules of the challenge by mixing paint pens with actual acrylic paint 

That is good. There’s a weird optical effect where it looks like a left hander!

DrBob

I think it’s fair to say that Thing 2 is going for a very different look 

https://i.imgur.com/zzdt1ux.jpg

paulnb57

Loving the creativity

DrBob

paulnb57 said:

Loving the creativity

Completely agree Paul, I love how their responses couldn’t have been more different.
And for context, the cats name is Kyle, apparently...

DartmoorHedgehog

DrBob said:

And for context, the cats name is Kyle, apparently...

Oh a cat, I see now   For some reason my brain saw that as a weird Picasso-esque shark chasing all the eyes!  Very cool (and the fish and dragon are superb)

DrBob

DartmoorHedgehog said:

DrBob said:

And for context, the cats name is Kyle, apparently...

Oh a cat, I see now   For some reason my brain saw that as a weird Picasso-esque shark chasing all the eyes!  Very cool (and the fish and dragon are superb)

Ahhhhnnd it’s all change, Kyle the cat has been rubbed out as she wasn’t happy with him..
She also wants to swap the base coat for a Shell Pink.
its like being at work, clients changing their bloody minds ! 

paulnb57

DrBob said:

its like being at work, clients changing their bloody minds ! 

Womens perogative apparently...

DrBob

paulnb57 said:

DrBob said:

its like being at work, clients changing their bloody minds ! 

Womens perogative apparently...

I’ve been locked in the house with 3 of them for best part of 3 months. I think I may start to unravel...
Still on the upside the “Koi Karpcaster” is starting with clear coat tomorrow ! 

thornlv

You can also get the full Posca range from Jackson's art. They also do similar pens by Molotow, Montana and Liquitex, cheaper than Amazon. They also do Acrylic gouache by AV Vallejo, liquitex and others. Gouache is very opaque, it's acrylic so dries quick and won't reset. It also brushes on well, leaving no brush marks. The AV Vallejo pots are really good and the cheapest range. The Liquitex gouache is also very good, bit dearer but has the advantage that they color match with their ranges of acrylics and spray cans.

tanihhiavlt

I am loving the artwork! I'm tempted to get some posca's to attempt a scratchplate for an Ibanez (lefties are always Black )

I figure I can photocopy a page from SWMBO's mindfulness colouring book

Devil#20

You wouldn't need many pens to create Jimmy Page's dragoncaster. If you used a US Std tele you'll end up with something better than the MIM £1200 JP Telecaster (which is being discontinued I think). You'll need a clear pickguard and a bit of tin foil to stick behind it and an ashtray bridge. 

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https://happymag.tv/watch-a-self-narrated-history-of-jimmy-pages-telecaster/&psig=AOvVaw2Jw-akQBowChTDM1hfiLGr&ust=1594994316498000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAIQjRxqFwoTCIjsmf_20eoCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAE 

DrBob

The Kilecaster (Kile not Kyle apparently) is back.
This time rendered against a rather fetching shade of Frozen Strawberry 

https://i.imgur.com/HUTnZSy.jpg

paulnb57

Love it!