Custom Painting: Cars, Trucks, Motorcycles

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Item # MB-31699  ISBN: 9780760331699




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Custom painting offers endless possibilities and choices. From intense candy colors to subtle graphics that barely call attention to themselves, the tools and paints available today can make anyone's custom ride stand out.

But where do you start?

A custom paint job is one of the most expensive and time-consuming steps of any build. You'll either spend hours and hours of your own time, or you'll pay a paint shop thousands, even tens of thousands, of dollars.

Your paint job is the first thing people will notice. How can you be sure you'll be happy with it?

Award-winning painter and author JoAnn Bortles helps you make this decision with Custom Painting: Cars, Trucks, Motorcycles. Compiling over 750 photos of dazzling custom paint jobs and drawing on first-hand experience, JoAnn explains the nature of color, graphic patterns, what's pleasing to the eye and what isn't, and how to make the right choice in custom paint.

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Foreword by Keith Ball
• Introduction
• What Makes a Great Paint Job?
• How to Choose Your Paint and Painter
• Finding the Right Color
• Finding the Most Effective Design
• Color and Design
• Solid Color as an Art Form: Motorcycles
• Solid Color as an Art Form: Cars and Trucks
• Flames and Motorcycles
• Flames on Cars, Trucks, and Street Rods
• Graphics on Motorcycles
• Four-Wheeled Works of Graphic Art
• Murals on Motorcycles
• Murals on Four Wheels
• Old Paint?
• The Very Best
• Index

If you're planning a custom build or a new paint job for your favorite ride, this is the place to start.

Custom Painting: Cars, Trucks, Motorcycles