There are 5 parts to the set, a negative shield, a shield with detail work, a shield with all the bits and pieces to create an angel, a devil chick, and a shield with boots and sexy high heels, and one with a different hair style, tattoos and hot rod gear. What I am going to paint is a martini girl, I will be painting it on an aluminum panel that is powder coated black. The colors I will be using are flesh tone base, red base, black base, white base, rootbeer kandy, and violette kandy, all by House of Kolor.

Step 1.
I first place the negative shield in a slant because I want to place her in a martini glass, this will place her back and legs in the right position.

Step 2.
I make the fleshtone base by combining white base with about 20% rootbeer kandy and a few drops of pagan gold kandy, and then I spray it in the shape, coat it fairly evenly, and I will need to hold the shield down to keep overspray to a minimum.

Step 3.
I place the detail shield on top of the negative shield, line up the head, and feet, and then I will know everything will fit right. When it is placed right, I make a mixture of rootbeer kandy and violette kandy to shade in the details. The great thing about using kandys is they get darker almost to black as you layer them.

Step 4.
I spray the brown kandy mix on the eyes, nose, and lips fairly dark, but then I only lightly dust all the other details I want, that makes it easier for me to control my lights and darks on the painting. At this stage I work lightly, so if I change my mind about anything it is an easy fix.

Step 5.
I only spray some of the details, because I decided I wanted my pin-up to be holding a great big playing card. So I painted in the face, hair, top of the bust line, the arm and hand, and the legs and feet.

Step 6.
The card shield is one of Craig Fraser's new ones, from his Kustom Kulture series, and it is going to work great to give my pin-up a bit more flirty modesty? When I get it placed right, I lightly spray in the details, this will give me a visual to work from.

Step 7.
Once I get the card where I want it, I start shading the pin-up with my rootbeer and violette mixture. With the brown color I shade the body, and render the hair, when I do this, I shade all the edges first, this creates the illusion of a contoured surface, because what is bright seems to jump forward and what is dark, drops back.

Step 8.
I then remove all the shields. First I work the face, it takes very little work to make the face have definition, a small soft dot of color on either side of her nose, next to the eyebrow and a small hard dot in the eye for a pupil, and just a bit of shading to create a cheek bone and then the end of her nose. After that I darken in any areas that I think look like it is in shadow.

Step 9.
Now I am ready to make the card white, so first I mask off the edges of the card shape and the hand, then I spray in the color.

Step 10.
My next step is to use base red, I like to use Euro red, I reintroduce the detail on the card, and I give the pin-up rosy cheeks, red lips and anywhere I feel the urge to add a little red to the figure.

Step 11.
No pin-up is complete without a nice manicure, this set includes finger nails, so I don't have to struggle with something so small. I spray them with Euro red.

Step 12.
Now I will be using black, the hair needs to be deepened in places, I very carefully add dark pupils and eyelashes in black, I spray black on her legs to give the look of sheer stockings.

Step 13.
With the hot rod stencil I place a flame detail to her stockings. At this stage you can see how important is was to add the brown to her skin, because you can see it through the black, it adds a lot of depth.

Step 14.
I am finally ready for white highlights, this will be the last color. I add white to the eyes, and anyplace that I want to jump forward, like the end of her nose, I also add a few white highlights to her stockings.

Step 15.
I use some 1/4" fine line tape to make the shape of the martini glass, then mask it off and spray white at the edges, and I make a couple of soft dagger strokes down the glass shape to make the glass look shiny.

Step 16.
After I remove that tape I make the stem of the glass, using two pieces of tape, I mask it off and spray very close and tight, this gives the feel of light caught in the glass stem.

Step 17.
I then remove that tape and lay out tape for the base, again I spray in the edges, and I make a few dagger strokes, running across the glass. I remove that tape, and all that is I have left is to make some blow out bubbles for fun.

And there you have a very sexy martini girl. I hope you see how simple it is to use the Girlie Girl Pin-up stencil by Artool, next month I will show you how to do a standing Pin-up, using the Girlie Girls, Part 2.

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