Garage Door Art!

[Fishbong]

Allright, i have some garage doors to paint. Three of 'em, actually. Now they shouldn't just be in one color, like every boring garage everywhere, but "artistic". Now i thought some retro/colorful/minimalistic theme would be cool, and already bought some colors. I have lots of orange and deep blue plus a bit of red, black and white.
Ok, so i decided one of the doors should be painted with apicture of a car. So i took this image:

and, using my ever mediocre graphic editing skills, created this from it:

Being quite satisfied with that, i cannot think of something for the other two doors. I wanted something a little more flashy, yet as simple as the one above. The two remaining doors are next to each other, i thought maybe i could think of something that is wide enough to stretch over both doors.

Can you help me in finding something cool for the remaining two doors? Just inspirations, preferably with a pic...

 

[Squidge]

Have a look here:

http://www.waymarking.com/cat/details.aspx...04-7fc9dc91b3ca

 

[Ravnos]

I like that picture. Looks like an old Ford, if memory serves correct. They're really nice when done up properly. But that's neither here nor there. I would like that on my garage, though, if I didn't live in an apartment.

 

[Mr.Jabberwocky]

Take a picture of the garage with the door open - i.e. with the car and/or junk in it. Then paint the door to appear as if it is always open. Then modify the car to look as if it has been in a collision - dented fender, smashed headlight, registration plate hanging off ... etc.

 

[Fishbong]

Have a look here:

http://www.waymarking.com/cat/details.aspx...04-7fc9dc91b3ca


Thanks, but i hope that when i´m done my doors will look about 5 times as awesome as any of those on this site. Anyway, i´ll keep it in mind, when have completed the painting, i´ll register there just to show them the errors of their ways.

Take a picture of the garage with the door open - i.e. with the car and/or junk in it. Then paint the door to appear as if it is always open. Then modify the car to look as if it has been in a collision - dented fender, smashed headlight, registration plate hanging off ... etc.

Nice idea, but there´s far too much stuff in the garage. I´d be painting for 4 days at least, even if i ignore the details. I´m no good at painting, so the Ford i posted above is about as detailed as i can go.

I´m now almost done with preparing the doors to be painted (took the old paint off, cleaned the metal, primed it) and now i don´t have much time to think of something. :huh:

 

[Mr.Jabberwocky]

Nice idea, but there´s far too much stuff in the garage.

Go the other way then. Paint it as spotlessly clean with a sparkling Rolls or a Bugatti Veyron parked in it.

 

[Iorgy77]

Get an overhead projector and get your design photocopied onto a piece of clear cellophane. project it onto the door and trace the outline. You would be suprised how detailed a design you could superimpose onto the garage door. I used to be a signwriter.

Personally I like the open door idea, maybe have an x-wing parked in your garage or something.

 

[Mr.Jabberwocky]

 

[Fishbong]

Get an overhead projector and get your design photocopied onto a piece of clear cellophane. project it onto the door and trace the outline. You would be suprised how detailed a design you could superimpose onto the garage door. I used to be a signwriter.

Personally I like the open door idea, maybe have an x-wing parked in your garage or something.

That´s what i´d do if i had an OHP or beamer at my disposal. Alas, unfortunately i cannot get one.
I´ll have to make a grid on the picture and on the door, and then transfer it to the door that way.

I like the idea with the X-wing though. Since they´re rather big, i could paint it from a front perspective over both doors, like this:

Of course i´ll edit it to match the style of the other pic. I like it simplicistic, because i´m not a good painter.

Thank you, that one is nice too. It actually inspired me.

 

[Ganepark32]

Damn. Can't find the image I was looking for. I was going to give you a link to a tribal eagle head that would look absolutely amazing on the garage door. Can't find the link though. I have it on my bebo page but if I find the link I'll post it.

 

[Fishbong]

Painting the first garage takes very long i can only work on it a few hours a day and it's raining frequently.
Anyway, that´s my current status:

I hope i can simplify that X-wing pic enough to easily paint it on the remaining doors.

Ganepark, i´d appreciate it if you could find this tribal pic, if its simple, i might use it instead of the X-wing.

 

[prairiefire]

Looks great Fishbong! Although maybe a little to pink...

 

[Fishbong]

I´s not pink it´s orange :huh:

 

[prairiefire]

I´s not pink it´s orange :huh:

really? weird...it appears orange on both my computer and my girlfriend's. Regardless... good to know it's orange. great job

 

[trooper]

I´s not pink it´s orange :huh:

really? weird...it appears orange on both my computer and my girlfriend's. Regardless... good to know it's orange. great job


:blink:

Trooper

 

[___]

I think prairiefire should stop smoking pot for a while ^^.

@Fishbong: Looks awesome... I wish I could paint that well freehand. It's so hard to get the proportions right when the surface you want to paint on is so huge. Looking forward to that x-wing picture aswell! That's what I would put on my garage door...

 

[Fishbong]

Almost done now! I hope i can finish it tomorrow.

 

[prairiefire]

my eyes may be screwed up... (still think it looks pinkish though, specifically a 'salmon' colour) but one thing unmistakable is it's not 2006.

 

[sam fisher]

my eyes may be screwed up... (still think it looks pinkish though, specifically a 'salmon' colour) but one thing unmistakable is it's not 2006.

Its orange man!

 

[Ganepark32]

@ Fishbong - here

Not exactly easy but it would look cool. And that 1940's Ford looks good on the garage. Will be even nicer once completely finished.