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Published: 2006-11-08 01:57:17 +0000 UTC; Views: 5187; Favourites: 26; Downloads: 59
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my parents told me I could paint whatever I wanted in their guest room.this was all freehanded with spraypaint. I got the fine lines by spraying a piece of cardboard right at the edge so a little bit of paint sprays on the wall. you move the can and the cardboard together to get those thin lines.
the leaves were sponged on by spraypainting wads of paper towels and dabbing them around. 4 colors overall.
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This is so awesome. I just left it in my unread deviations and kept looking at it. This is the second piece of yours I just never get over that initial feeling of awe. This one and that green-eyed girl you originally drew on the back of your hand? They make me feel good.
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wow, thank you. I've never gotten a comment quite like that before... it means a lot to me.
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I'm glad my sentiments were expressed well enough through my words. It's hard to express things well through text, I think. And, you are very welcome.
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beautiful detail. spray paintings are amazing.
you should check these out
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yeah, I hear people using that technique are a dime a dozen unfortunately. it's real amazing the first time you see it... but apparently it takes no skill.
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to cool that would bring lige into any room you have the coolest parents i wish you could help me spary panit my room
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I would if I could man. spraypainting is fun as hell and yeah, I've been blessed with pretty good parents.
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Very nice!!! I always love your work, no matter what it is. Its cool of your parents to let you just do whatever you want with their room.
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they are good parents for sure.
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It looks, while not exactly 'real', truly beautiful-- like a very refined and highly planned work. I also like the blossoming effect.
<3 you. ^^
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highly planned... bwahaha. this was all freehanded.
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OMG its so good it looks so real. i wish i could do that kinda thing.
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practice practice practice. and also get permission haha.
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all u have to do is glance at my portfolio of work, i have no drawings, or paintings what so ever. everything i draw looks like a cartoon 
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very very cool, thats how i decorated my room 
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have you got any pictures of it?
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Looks great man, that is pretty damn realistic for spray paint...
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well you can do a thing with spraypaint to get really thin lines by taking a quare piece of cardboard and spraypainting half and half on the cardboard and on the wall. that gives you two things. a sharp line, and a thin line. the leaves were sponged on with paper towels.
I'm really starting to enjoy spraypaint and I enjoy the evil glares I get from employees at hardware stores when I buy a bunch of it wearing my dark hooded sweatshirt.
when I bought the paint for this tree, it was midnight and I went to walmart. when I put all the paint up on the checkout counter, the old lady working there asked me "so... what are you doing tonight?" I initially thought "holy shit, this old lady is asking me out" then I realized she was hinting at the spraypaint. I laughed and said "oh, just an art project." she looked at me with a worried face and I said "it's nothing illegal, I'm just spraypainting the inside of my parents guest room." she sighed and said "just don't go gettin yourself in trouble..."
haha. midnight walmart runs for the win!
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your level of correctitude i astounding
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hehe, yes, we also invent words for fun..
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Can I come stay at your guest room sometime?
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you're quite welcome. you'll have to ask my parents I suppose since I retain no ownership whatsoever to that room since I moved out but.... yes.
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Lol! Okay then! I'll keep that in mind.
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That is very cool! The lighting on the tree is great!
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I was experimenting with a new technique, I'm glad it worked.
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Looks like it's time to invest in an airbrush... It'll blow your mind...
And a fucking respirator... Don't fuck around wiht poison.
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yeah, I got a taste of that poison stuff when I was working on this. I did the first half of this with a fan blowing out the window and no mask. eventually there were two green paint trails going up into my nostrils and the back of my throat started stinging.
that was the point at which I though "oh... so this is what laughingtree was talking about. YACK COUGH SNORT"
I eventually found an old dusty resperator in my parents garage and it was all good from there, but yeah. a decent one is on my to-buy list now. what was that one you recommended to me way back when?
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oh, and one more thing... be careful about pointing a fan out a window, I did that when I painted a mural at a country club, and the window frames all needed to be repainted in the end because it just blew all this overspray into the window frame essentailly painting the window frame blue (It was an underwater mural...)
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hah! that's odd, I guess I never thought about that.
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That was precisely my problem...
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Best $30 you'll spend. This is the one that I have and it's the most comfortable respirator I've ever worn. Hands down. IT also fits low-profile filters which fit under my welding helmet which is a nice plus. IF you're super-strapped for cash go with teh 6000 but it's not as comfy. This one is really worth it in my opinion. $40 for respirator and a filter is the same price you'd pay at any lowe's/home depot only you're getting a REALLLY good one here....
My full recommendation. Also make sure you get the right filters for what you're using it for...
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I may just order that thing right now...
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You'll find it'll come in handy all the time. Plus they're fun to just wear out in public. People tend to avoid you if you do that. It's fun!
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It amazes me what you can do with spray paint. What a wonderful and life like looking tree! Great job. Want to come paint my house?
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haha...
I had a window open with a big fan pointing out it but I still did half of the thing without anything over my mouth and nose. eventually my nostrils were green and my throat started to sting, so I scrounged around in my parents garage and found a resperator. all was good past that point.
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a normal face mask wont help that much really. my firned does spray painting he has like a $100 proper mask with like industrial strength filters... but thats coz he plans to do lots of it... if its just a little in your life time no big deal.... but if its something you plan to do a lot... invest in your health
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I'm planning on it actually.
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I was going to have something like this done in my room. My room is shaped like half of a hexagon facing the street. A window on the diagonal wall, a huuuge window in the center, a window on the other diagonal wall, and above the center window is this semi circle window. All of them have these cool shutters, and we were going to have a huuuge mural painted over the entire three walls, painting on top of the shutter pannels so when you close the shutters, you can see the whole mural... It was going to be this african desert type mural, with sparse trees fading up to the setting sun (the semi circle Window). It was an ambitious project, and we almost did it...but something happened along the road..and it was never done...
~Dot
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who's "we"
were you going to hire someone?
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Wow man. I can't even touch up the walls at my house. Lovely tree, something that people can sit beneath and read all year long
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heh, I hope so. it'd be nice to see some black sillhouettes beneath that tree.
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