Hot Rod decoupage art piece

[hewey]

Laid out ready to start. The B&W pics came from an old 90s street rodder mag, the big colour pic is one of mine that I got printed at the local office supplies place.

Acrylic glue from the craft store - dries clear

Started adding pics

Using a foam brush, give the base a coat of glue

Align the picture

Go back over it with more glue

Thats it for the background. The centre image will cover the rest.

After it the glue had dried I 'dry brushed' it with some brown/red acrylic which is a very similar hue to red primer - perfect!

Some detail shots to get an idea of how it looks. Its kinda rough, but it'll help tone back the background, and helps with that vintage kinda vibe.

And then once the paint was dried I added the last picture, and gave the whole shebang another coat of glue.

Now I just gotta bury the whole thing in clear

 

[Beater]

That's pretty cool. My wife does a lot of paper crafts art stuff. I'm gonna show her this thread.

 

[cycle junk]

I used to deal in vintage hot rod magazines but still have a few hundred Im going to do the interior of my old Scotty trailer.

 

[DonQui]

oh wow i was just thinking of doing something like this, except i had no idea where to start. this is a great idea! thanx

 

[outskirtscustoms]

great idea, looks awesome too. Now make one with old bike images!

 

[hewey]

i did some on a bike i built,

Dude this is awesome! Warragamba Dam is like 30 minutes from where I live! The safari park is long gone, but the urban legend is that some animals escaped. Every year or two someone spots a 'panther' in the bush. Even the local footbal team in the NRL (the Aussie equivalent of the NFL) is the Penrith Panthers!