I then used black and lightly sprayed in the wrinkles, burn marks, and shadows to make the rips look more 3 dimensional. At this point the only color I have used for all of the detail so far in my airbrush is black

After painting the skulls I applyed intercoat clear to protect the art work so I could scuff the paint the next day to allow for proper adhesion seeing how this project took more then a day to finish. The next step was to draw the rips, mask the skulls and paint the riped areas. I used Orian Silver to paint the rips.

I have finished detailing the skulls and if you look at the lower left hand corner you can see that I have started to apply black where some of the fire will be.

In this picture you can see that I have started to define the jaw bone on the upper skull, and the eye sockets on the one in the middle. Also I have finished the vains connecting the skulls.

Skull fire hood

This is a hood that I did last spring for a customer.
I started by wet sanding the hood down with 500 grit paper and then I mask the hood leaving the area where the skulls will be open. I based the hood where the skulls will be white. I used one of Craig Frasers Wrath of Skull Master stencils to paint the skulls. I used the stencil to get the basic shape of the skull that I wanted. When using a stencil, you only want to spray a light coat of color down to get a basic pattern, then you can detail the skulls freehand.

After unmasking the red, I masked the bottom side of the flames and sprayed the black, then added a Platinum Pearl pinstripe and cleared. This is the final product.

After laying out the flames I sprayed the red. This is a custom color I came up with for the customer. To achieve this color I used House of Kolor Euro red as my base followed by Razberry Pearl and then Candy apple red.