Stiff-up your brush: paint porn

So what you're really saying is there is no place for 16th Century Renaissance or Russian Orthodox Icons Images on bikes?

My Klein Quantum "Sunrise" which I wish I had kept

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Thats an airbrushed Jesus away from pron

I think this has been featured in this thread before but I'm reposting because I think it's rad. Out of curiosity any idea how the painter went about doing it? I'm no expert at all but logic would say that you would have to lay down the fade first, then the black of the top but by the hand drawn look of the shapes they can't have been masked over so was the black put on by hand?

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Either that or a masking fluid applied by hand.

Looks as though the bike was painted the blue green base colour first. Then it appears as though each tube' s diameter has been calculated and the masks have been made as a single wrap. Once all the masks are in place, the whole thing is painted black and then the masks are removed one by one. It's fiddly and expensive as a result but absolutely worth it.

Looks like a handdrawn design with a "wash off" chalk type marker over the fade basecoat.

Thanks for the input, when I get a bike worth painting I'd love to get you guys at Cole Coatings to do something similar but with a pink to purple fade. The stuff you guys are putting out is insane, keep up the awesome work!

Why oh why did you sell that?

The black pattern was hand painted on top of the fade on this one. No masks.

SHEEEEEEIT!
Did you paint this?
By hand?
MATE.

It was apparently Jared Mahaffey from BMC in collab with artist Black Koki

http://black-koki.tumblr.com/

I see now... minus ten cool points from me.

Sorry.

haha... nothing to do with me!
Have a buddy who runs a bike shop in SA, knows the guy how owns that bike. He was telling me about it a while back.

The correct term is "paint resist" before the black coat. (We've been using this technique it for the design test on our baby cards.)

edit: this is also a nice read

On CycleEFIX

http://www.cycleexif.com/singlebe-aladdin-29er

I really don't like those Kirk seatstays. I'm not a big fan of the paint job to be honest, but those seatstays are so fugly.

Fair, I think its neat

The paint job is obviously subjective, so one person might like it and others might not. But a frame should fundamentally be about function and about engineering. And those seat stays just seem like an unnecessary complication which achieves nothing.

But a frame should fundamentally be about function and about engineering

Have you seen every bike ever? There's nothing wrong with adding some flair for no reason but aesthetics

I'm a fan of Pegoretti, but his "minimalist modern art" jobs leave me cold.

With nothing more than my own prejudice to go on, that strikes me as a the sort of job which some yank with more money than taste would get palmed-off with.

The painted windows on the fork crown looks particularly lazy and anachronistic: "How much am I charging? Better add some value and paint something."

I know this is the paint thread, but the frameset is a poor showcase: if it weren't for the seat stays (another superfluous "Better add some value." feature?) and head tube cable stops, I'd think that it was an Eighties frame with a neo-retro makeover: the curved fork, the threadless conversion (or whatever is going on there).

Actually, is it a 1" steerer?

And being kid's sized with 622 wheels doesn't help it's cause either.

And while I'm about it, the cabling is shit too.

I've always thought you can do something pointless if it doesn't make it worse from an engineering point of view. Having said that, those kirk stays are pretty fuggers... He's got a nice elise though...

Don’t hold back Jim, tell us what you really think