Reject Painting

[jklett]

I turned some danny bodies about a month ago, and I wasn't too happy with the way they came out. Problems like tearout, thruhole blowouts, off center hook and weight holes and such. For some reason I held onto the better ones and sealed and primed them for practice. Like it takes skill to dip and drip. Anyways, I figured I'd paint them to practice and I learned quite a bit in the process. One thing is to play with the pressure, I was using only createx and each color needed a slightly different pressure. Some stuff needed about 50# of pressure, yet others(especially flourescents) did much better at around 30#. Also, I am using an old single action airbrush from when I was in high school and changing the needle opening allowed me to shoot much finer lines than I remember being able to do back then. I also figured out that if you screw something up, alcohol washes this stuff off real good! And if all else fails, paint it black! I figured I would post the painted firewood to see what folks think I should focus my attention on to improve my painting skills. I already know I need to work on my woodworking, but like I said before, these were rejects anyways. Thanks for any suggestions.