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Custom Jelly Fish Painting Technique

In the 70'S I had a Harley. The tank had this custom technique on it. The best way to describe it is that it looked like a bunch of jelly fish with tentacles. After thinking about it, it appears you take a drop of paint and then hit it with a blast of air in the middle of the drop. Is this correct or is there a better way to do this..You don't see this technique around today.

Come one...someone knows about this technique I'm talking about..Jelly fish probably isn't the right word..more like star burst or perfect circle splatter..

try bloching them with gummie bears or gummie sharks

I have never saw this - i am too young

Originally Posted by Lucky

try bloching them with gummie bears or gummie sharks

I have never saw this - i am too young

I'm very old..just waiting for someone to chime in on how this technique is done...can't find a photo..some old fart knows what I'm talking about and post a pic..

Alright seeing as how no one seems to know this but me here goes. the way we did it back in the day was to use either a spot gun or air brush, you turned the air up, feed up and turned the fan down to a point and held it about 2" or so from the surface and pulled the trigger, you want the paint to be fairly heavy and the air pressure will force the paint to the outside like you want. try it and just play around you will figure it out pretty quick. Paint viscosity has a effect on it also, thinner made it go out farther and was more transparent.
I found this it is kinda like what i am talking about, but this is large scale done with a brush.

Originally Posted by TRG

Ive screwed around with quite a bit of different faux design and Automotive custom crap, Graphics are what I like, but if you have a pis, I am pretty sure I can emulate what you want, I just did a search on Google images, and did not find what you are talking about or anything close, I was born in 72' so I think its before my time, im sure BillyB knows what you are talking about!!!
Been getting into quite a bit of psychobilly stuff for some chopper rebuilds lately, alot of light candy overlays!

I think this technique is done by placing a drop of paint and then you hit that drop of paint of a light burst of air..the paint then still stays in a circle type pattern but as it spreads out it gets these almost tentacle looking strings that comes off the main drop..I can't find a picture of this...it was real popular like I said in the 70's on bike tanks and fenders..you guys are killing me...

Originally Posted by 65 Sanger 440

Alright seeing as how no one seems to know this but me here goes. the way we did it back in the day was to use either a spot gun or air brush, you turned the air up, feed up and turned the fan down to a point and held it about 2" or so from the surface and pulled the trigger, you want the paint to be fairly heavy and the air pressure will force the paint to the outside like you want. try it and just play around you will figure it out pretty quick. Paint viscosity has a effect on it also, thinner made it go out farther and was more transparent.

Do you have a photo of the finished product?

Originally Posted by TRG

Been looking over on www.jockeyjournal.com there are quite a few ideas going on!
Are you talking about a drop of candy?

Yes, I think it is done mostly with candy colors..you would use this type of technique as an accent to smaller areas like a small area on a fiberglass carb scoop...not the entire scoop..then you pin stripe around that accent area..I guess you could do the entire scoop but it might be too much..

Originally Posted by 65 Sanger 440

Alright seeing as how no one seems to know this but me here goes. the way we did it back in the day was to use either a spot gun or air brush, you turned the air up, feed up and turned the fan down to a point and held it about 2" or so from the surface and pulled the trigger, you want the paint to be fairly heavy and the air pressure will force the paint to the outside like you want. try it and just play around you will figure it out pretty quick. Paint viscosity has a effect on it also, thinner made it go out farther and was more transparent.
I found this it is kinda like what i am talking about, but this is large scale done with a brush.

That's close but that example looks more like a graphic type splatter ..not quite what I was talking about...