How to Design and Apply Automotive and Motorcycle Paint and Graphics Flames, Pinstripes, Airbrushing, Lettering, Troubleshooting & More

by Bortles, JoAnn

• ISBN13: 9780760369524
• ISBN10: 0760369526
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780760369531
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2022-04-12
• Publisher: Motorbooks
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Summary

Learn how to tackle all types of automotive paint and graphics projects with this photo-rich reference by award-winning custom painter JoAnn Bortles.

How to Design and Apply Automotive and Motorcycle Paint and Graphics covers the most popular custom painting stylesand techniques in an easy-to-understand format. Step-by-step examples of projects are accompanied by handy tips and tricks features, as well as photo galleries to provide examples and inspiration.

Writing for hobbyists and professionals alike in an accessible, easygoing style, author and award-winning custom painter JoAnn Bortles presents both traditional and modern techniques and tools, from low tech to high tech, making it easier than ever to obtain professional results on your hot rod, muscle car, truck, or motorcycle.

In addition, Bortles includes content that has not been properly addressed in existing custom painting books, with chapters devoted to painting muscle car rally stripes, lowrider graphics, and creating plotter-ready vector drawings for stencil work.

With details on tools and materials as well as how to design paint jobs and test paint techniques, you will learn how to design and apply:
 

• Both traditional and realistic flames
• Ghost effects
• Multilayered graphics
• Two-tone paint for cars and motorcycles
• Lace paint
• Gold leaf
• Free-hand and tape pinstriping
• Patina effects
• Logos and lettering
• Clearcoats
• Troubleshooting

All the information is designed to enlighten both automotive and motorcycle applications and includes the most popular paint and graphics out there.

Whether you are experienced with an airbrush and masking tape or simply aspire to lay unique paint and graphics on your vehicle, How to Design and Apply Automotive and Motorcycle Paint and Graphics is the ultimate one-stop resource for instruction, ideas, tips, and techniques.

The Motorbooks Workshop series covers the topics that engage and interest gearheads. Written by authorities in the subject matter and illustrated with color photography, Motorbooks Workshop is the ultimate source for how-to know-how.

Author Biography

JoAnn Bortles is a nationally recognized and award-winning custom painter. Her work appears in Car Craft, Hot Rod, and Chevy Hardcore magazines, and she has written seven books on custom painting techniques for Motorbooks, including the best-selling How to Master Airbrush Painting Techniques. She has won Best Paint of the Year four times since 2004 and has been featured on The Today Show and PowerBlock's MuscleCar TV show. She lives and works in Waxhaw, North Carolina, where she owns and operates her own custom painting shop, Crazy Horse Painting (@CrazyHorseFlame).

Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
CHAPTER 1 Designing and Testing Your Paint Job 
CHAPTER 2 Tools and Materials 
CHAPTER 3 Two-tone Paint 
CHAPTER 4 Rally Stripes 
CHAPTER 5 Flames 
CHAPTER 6 Graphics 
CHAPTER 7 Retro Styles
CHAPTER 8 Lowrider and Flake Paint 
CHAPTER 9 Pinstriping 
CHAPTER 10 Gold and Metal Leaf 
CHAPTER 11 Lettering 
CHAPTER 12 Patina Paint 
CHAPTER 13 Creating and Using Plotter Stencils 
CHAPTER 14 Clearcoating 
CHAPTER 15 Troubleshooting and Problem-solving 
Resources 
Acknowledgments 
About the Author 
Index