The Painting

the Painting consited of three main colours Brown, off white and a slightly more off white, i also used a gold silver colour for behind the screens and on some for some of the writing.
the brown i mixed was very close to the original, there is only a slight colour difference mine is maybe slightly lighter.

to spray the brown i masked off the inside areas and hung the two halves off the hinge using wire, this made it much easier to get to all the areas when spraying.

to spray the white areas i mask off the brown using fine edge masking tape to create a clean mask line but unfortunately when i removed the masking tape some of the brown paint came with it. this only happened in the areas i had just milled out when i was making the voids for hinges. for some reason the paint didn't key to the surface, these areas will ahve to be resprayed but i will make sure the areas are properly keyed first.

i used a lasercutter to create the stencils for the inserts were the buttons are and the brown and silver lettering that sits above and below the screens. i used self achesive pastic film and after much trial and error found that this was the best for making stencils. i experimented with plastic tape, maksing tape, brown packing tap but found the plastic film to be the best.

to make the stencils for the wrinting i was too hard to try and transfer them once they had been laser cut so i sprayed the piece first the covered it in the plastic film which i then ran it through the laser cutter, i could then just remove the areas i wanted to spray without disturbing the rest of the masking. the result was very good i managed to get a good clean mask with minimal paint bleed, there were a few problem areas but nothing major. some bits might have to be resprayed.

around the screens there is a speckled spray effect which i recreated by turning the air right down and adjusting the paint flow on the spraygun. i used the same technique when sparaying the buttons to give them a rubberised look but also added matting agent to give it a dulled worn look.