The painting is finally finished!! There was nothing more satisfying (except maybe when I take that first cruise) than peeling all of the tape off for the last time. (: After taping off yellow... then white... then black... then the text... then all of it... Hah. It felt great to spray the last coat of gloss on wildly.
The solid color stripes and bands were actually pretty easy... I covered the entire bike with newspaper to keep from making a mess, then just adjusted the taped off parts as I needed to. The only part I ran into a bit of trouble with was the text. I had printed stencils onto card stock, and I never even thought about the rigidity of the paper. The little bits inside the letters wouldn't conform to the bike... duh. So, my solution was to trace the text onto layered painter's tape and then cut out the letters with an exacto. Worked like a charm! See??
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