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Been painting for about 2 months now any feed back would be greatly appreciated good


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IF anyone has any advice on what I am doing either wrong or right please tell me. I have only been doing this for about 2 months and I am just looking for feed back. Pic 1 is called Chart/ baby bass, Pic 2 is Rasberry shad and Pic 3 is Chart/ blue


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Looks like you are on the correct path as this one caught my eye. Course I like green in about any shade.

If it were me, I might add a tad of orange on the bottom. Nice "paint-job" non the less.

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Nice look paint job! You could probably stop there and get bit. But there are some different things you could try, to give your lures some additional flavors.

You might try adding a clear coat at this point, before you top coat, and then play around with shading and different accents and details. That way, you can wipe off the paint if you don't like it without ruining the scaled base you already have.

I use water based paints, and then clear with pastel fixative, which is a lacquer based clear (I think) that dries really fast, so you can keep on painting in the same session without having to wait for the clear to dry. I use a hair dryer to speed the drying of the fixative, just like with the water based paints.

If you try a darker back and let it spill a little over the sides, you might like the effect. Most fish are darker on top, lighter on the bottom, so the contrast helps in making the lure appear more "natural". If you shade it and like it, you can clear that, and then play around some more, clearing after each coat that you like.

Orange below the lip on the front is another good scheme, especially for bluegill imitations. I like to layer brite yellow, then transparent orange, and finally transparent red, in ever smaller concentric circles, so I wind up with a red dot about the size of a dime, surrounded by orange, and all of that surrounded by a yellow halo.

You will find there are tons of variations you can do (see the hardbait cookbook for what the real artists do), and putting a protective clear coat on as an intermediate step will let you play around without ruining all your previous work.

Hope this helps.

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