Laptop Cases

Our school gives us a Macbook Pro to use during the school year. I bought a case because apple has an all aluminum shell and it dents very easily. I thought my case looked boring. I decided to jazz it up with a little spray paint. I took one of my favorite bands "The Beatles" and I painted it on there. I then showed my friends and a few liked it enough that they wanted there own cases with special bands and logos. So ths bottom image is my case. the one in the middle is G-Eazy and the top is still coming in. The one on top will be Batman that I also did. Seems that Black case and white paint make a good blend.

Son of Anarchy logo

This is the Sons of Anarchy logo. I got a request to make it. Took about 7 stencils. I will go in order of layers.
1. Black
2. White
3. Black
4. White
5. Black.
6. Gray
7. Red
This was a fun one to do. each stencil had its difficulties because this logo has very detailed white and black lines. thats why I had so many layers to make it have more depth. Took about 2 hours in total to cut the stencils and paint it all.

Detroit Tigers

This was a very fun one to do. It was another stencil much like sons of anarchy one. Heres the break down.

1. Blue

2. White

3. Blue

4. Orange

5. White

6. Blue

In case your wondering how this works. 1. Is the base color blue. 2. Takes white an essentially whips out all the blue except around the edges 3. We bring that blue back. You might think this is a waste of paint but its much more efficient. I don't have to sit and tape off the blue that I want to preserve. Instead I just reapply it. 4. Orange layer. Everyting orange was 1 stencil and took a very long time to cut out due to all the small lines. 5. White on the face and paws. This is the same thing. as 1 and 3. I reapply it where I want it. and then 6 is blue once again. just on the face above the eyes. This again is a lot easier than trying to tape that off and paint.

Freehand Spray Painted Planet Scene

 Close up of the planet.

 Close up of the planet #2

This here is my first attempt at free handed spray painting. This may look hard but I learned this all from youtube. It is easy in the break down. First you put your base colors for the planets down. Once you have that done take out waxy magazine paper. make creases in the paper and spread it ontop of the planet. When you peel off the paper it leaves small grooves making it look space like. Next I placed a jar over top it to make a nice circle. Once thats down go crazy with colors different colors add depth but black is key. that gives it the space look. Then flick white paint overtop to make stars. Once all that was done I sprayed a lot of black on top and thats about all there is to it.

Spray Painted Vinyl

Spray painted T-Shaw's logo onto a vinyl record. 

This hear is going old school. I went over to Good will because I have no other clue of where to get cheap records that I can spray paint on. Low and behold I found a vinyl record for $.50 Thrift shops are great. Next I got T-shaws logo and cut it out. then I simply put down the red then black overtop the red. I think it was a cool idea to do a vinyl record because of the whole DJ thing. DJ's and records go together pretty well. I was a little scared at first because I didn't think that the paint would stick to the vinyl. Clearly as you can see in the picture it did.

Titleist

I just recently got into golf. I decided I needed to paint a logo for golf so I just figured start with something easy. So this is my easy stencil of titleist. I'm sure that Taylormade, Cobra, and Ping will come soon but I just put this up to show what I been up to lately.

Hope College

I know a lot of people who go to hope college. This was one of my fun free time stencil. Pretty basic stencil I did a base orange then blue and the orange overtop. I then took it and cut it out. This was the picture of the un-cut product. HOPE COLLEGE!

Table Project

I spent my summer creating this table. It took about 2 months to make my sketch of a table into a reality. In cutting stencils it took 10 hours alone. Then I sprayed all the stencils over the coarse of 2 weeks. This is my picture journal of the whole process. 

The canvas

 All stencils that were used. not cut out.

Graphing out the table and where things will go. Lot of things got pulled out and/or changed through the process.

Table Progress #1

 Table progress #2

Table progress #3

Table Progress #4

Queen Close-up

Table progress #5

Sublime close-up

Finished stencil work.

 Before clearcoat

After clearcoat

Final Product

I'd like to give a little run down of whats happening in all these pictures. if you start at the top I will number it by the picture it is. In the very first picture is "the canvas" with the help of my friend we created a CAD drawing of this and brought it to my friend who is able to use the large CNC machine. We cut out a huge slab of wood into this shape. From there I took it on myself. I sanded the whole top layer of the wood to be able to paint it. The 2nd picture is a picture of all the stencils I used. I had double and triples of every single paper. In total I printed at least 150 pages of stencils. I spend roughly 10 hours cutting everything out. From there everything got easier. I took it in chunks. My goal was 4 stencils per day. As you scroll through you can see somedays I got 4 somedays I got more/less. To set up each stencil took about 25 minutes. I would spray an adhesive on the stencil and align it onto the table top. Then make marks so I could set the next one on top if it where a multi-layered stencil. After it was set I would place blankets over top the rest of the table so I minimized the amount of overspray. Once everything was in place I spray-painted the color and peeled everything off. repeat this for every stencil. After all that my brother clear coated it. I then took table legs and put them on. Then ending my project.

Heres the table all labeled if you don't know these bands.

I did this is the order I painted them in.
1. MGMT
2. Imagine Dragons
3. Rush
4. The Doors
5. The Who
6. Coldplay
7. Ratatat
8. The XX
9. The Killers
10. Squirrel Nut Zippers
11. Billy Joel
12. The Strokes
13. Radiohead
14. Frank Sinatra
15. Breaking Benjamin
16. The Beatles
17. The Avett Brothers
18. Queen
19. Muse
20. Red Hot Chili Peppers
21. Pink Floyd
22. Fleet Foxes
23. Foo Fighters
24. Sublime
25. Edward Sharpe & the magnetic zeros
26. Aerosmith
27. Steely Dan
28. Def Leppard
29. Metallica
30. The Eagles (in yellow not very visable.)
31. Led Zeppelin
32. Bon Iver
33. The Gorillaz
34.  Jimi Hendrix (right bottom corner. Not visible in picture.)
35. Blue Öyster Cult

Sports Teams

Detroit Lions

Detroit Tigers

Green Bay Packers

Each one of these was very different and different crowds of people. I enjoy making sports teams because you create rivalry between people. For example I created a lions stencil. I give it to the person who loves the lions. Once a guy sees the lions logo. If he is a lions fan then he wants one. On the other hand if he doesn't like the lions he thinks of the team he does like. Once he knows what team he likes then he wants a spray painted version of that. Good deal either way.

Rasta Lion

This right here Is a Rasta lion. This is the very first kind of these I made. I tried something new on this one. Instead of straying the stencil and then cutting it out on a band-saw I ended up spraying the colors in the background and then overtop of that spraying the lion stencil. In the end I think the mesh of colors has a mutual pop effect. The black not only pops the background but it can be reversed.