What I did on my summer vacation... (Pics)

Ok, so I'm really just looking for an excuse to show off what I did with my second to last week of summer vacation before I start my final year of school (woo!) Plus, I've gotta kill sime time while Eleanor's rat thaws out. I just got home from two weeks visiting my man in Nova Scotia, and his little brother got rear-ended on his bike after my first week there, so I spent my second week helping fix it up with him and his parents. I was in charge of paint and got some practice for school, I'm so excited :D

(Full size pics can be seen in the link in my signature)
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So, what'd you all you guys do with your summer this year? :)

Very cool.. I'd like to learn how to do that stuff. Do you use an airbrush exclusively?

My summer? This and that. Nothing terribly exciting.

I have yet to learn to airbrush, that's the main part of school this year and why I'm so excited about it :D

I did the striping with a dagger brush, they look like this:http://www.pinstriper.com/Merchant2/...01/smser10.gif Totally awkward at first, but you get used to it.

I think I'd make a big blob with that brush.. lol You must have a steady hand to do the pinbrushing.

Nice Pin Striping! :judge:

Whoah, those are immpressive stripes. I know how hard striping is; I have tried. Though I can paint objects and stuff on a canvas, I failed miserably at stripes! The old saying is true with me: "Sure you can paint; but can you draw a straight line.. nope." :)
Airbrushing is fun. My man is doing realistic flames and getting very good at it! Since you're an artist, let me ask you this; isn't it funny to look at your first attmpts at sumthin, and compare it with something you've done after you mastered it? :)
Must be something in the air, about wrecking bikes; my man's cousin just did last week. It was his last ride before selling it too!

I spent the first two or three weeks of sign painting school painting nothing but 1 and 2 inch lines, over and over and over until I got a whole row perfectly straight. Now when I tried this with a pinstiping brush some months later... man, that was hard! I think anyone can pick up on it, it just takes a lot of practice. I love going back and looking at my old artwork, I've kept pretty much everything since middle school. The weirdest thing is when I'm driving along somewhere and see a sign I made like the week before and didn't know where it was being installed, it's weird, I always have to do a double take, lol.

Oh and the bike... he'd planned on selling it and buying a different one, I think he had a buyer too, lol, what luck! He ended up buying another bike anyway, but this one he's hanging on to until next spring I think.