Chris From Singapore. said:
One question that has always bugged me, how do you ensure continuity of the swirl? Like the front pattern flows to the sides and the rear?
How did you manage that? Well done once again!
Thanks Chris, I got grief from some people for doing that tutorial. I just had to find out how to do it and to pass it along. Plus, Im crazy =)
Well its a hands on thing, you have to some what control the paint on the water and in your head see how its going to wrap around the body, when you have your paint floating you want to make sure its spread out and you have a good amount of different colors collected in the floating paint spot you going to dip in. Sometimes it can get crazy! You want more black over here with the red and then the blue moved more to this side etc..You can use fans all around the tank to help keep the paint from spreading away from center.
Robot Boy said:
i have a question. if you want a guitar like vais UV (i think that's what it is, haven't looked at the album cover in AGES) on passion and warfare, black with like, green and pink and stuff swirled on top, do you just paint the guitar black beforehand and swirl it with the other colors, or do you just need to put a lot of black paint in the tank with the other colors so its part of the swirl?
All swirled bodies are done with a white base coat unless you have a guitar that is lets say Yellow and you want yellow in your color you could use it as it is a light color but it might change the color of the other colors if there to thin. But you really want white to be your base.
Some colors spread faster then others and some colors also thin out more then others in the water, so you have to test your paint and get an idea how each one floats, Black is a quick spreader and you don't need to use much to get black blacks.
freedom's door said:
I can't wait to start swirling, although when i get up to doing guitars i'm not sure how to fill in the screw holes so they don't get ruined when the guitar is in the water.
I used lots of wax for all holes and cavities like your neck pocket, electric cavities holes (the hole leading to your pickups don't forget), tone and volume holes and trem route. Im sure there is other things that can be used to seal them off but wax works just like on a surfboard. Plus its easy to remove!
Like SwirlJem said, water and guitars = bad! It will split your body like nothing!
That said, you may could turn around the whole thing by not using water with oil paints at all. Try using oil in place of your water and use water base paints but that may make problems when it comes to clear coating as water base may chrase with a nitro clear coat but you could use a low solvent clear like fast clear by Alias but thats for another tut =)
