Yosemite Sam: Are you trying to make me look a fool?
Bugs: You don't need me to make you look like a fool.
Yosemite Sam: Yer deerrrnnn right I don't!
[QUOTE=Pipsissewa;962291]WW!!! That is GORGE!!!!! Thanks for sharing and congrats on your nerves of steel!
P.S. Did you use just green and brown? And did you hold the ink-soaked felt sideways and swipe? Or did you draw "fan-like" patterns?
Again, AWESME![/
What i found out of all the ways that were tried that worked best was to hold my hand behind the tarp to steady it while making random choppy strokes with the other hand full of marker felt.
When you start out the color is crisp,so do anything that would give depth first ,like tree branches,shadow darker leaf litter.
As the ink in your hand has been used the color doesnt change ,but the density of the mark it makes does. This allows you to feather the edges of the dark with more transparent colors.
never try to duplicate a pattern ,change directions of your stroke with every swipe.
The colors i used were black green ,and brown.
If you notice in nature that when you look down from a ridge you see the greener growth at the bottom,when looking up you see a wall of leaf litter. That is why the two different patterns on the tarp.
hairbear, that's fantastic!
Thanks!
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Mike
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The methods I tried that were failures were as follows.
Tie dye ink dilluted in water.
tie dye ink full strength.
tie dye ink mixed with vinegar and water(as recomended by label for nylon dye)
tie dye ink straight,mixed with vinegar at 50/50 blend. This changed the color of the thread,and put a light green haze on the cuban.
vinyl@fabric spray,dont even waste your time it crumbles right off when you wrinkle the fabric.
Sharpies are what I started with,very little actual ink in these. Marksalot has five times the ink for around 80 cents per marker.
cuban fiber is about as knot head stubborn as I am,it will not let much penetrate it.
Also I would like to give a shout out to the cuban fiber stuff sack ,it was tortured beyond belief ,but still functions as my cook kit bag.
Hats off to hammock gear for a fine product,the durability of cuban in under rated in my book.
Last edited by hairbear; 03-13-2013 at 13:26.
id say it would work. Id be interested to see what would happen if you did the art work thing ,then cover it with clear sill.
Sure would make a funny tarp to paint on it a picture of snoopy laying in a hammock with wood stock sleeping on his belly.
In the dream bubble snoopys dream is flying the hammock with his red baron suit on.
Woodstocks dream bubble would be snoopy nose first in the dirt on the side of the hammock,with wood stock having the hammock all to himself. seems someone on here had that kind of thing in mind.
Awesome Hairbear. I think you've started something here. Makes me want a cuben tarp even more now.
Very cool.
Has it been through a night of rain yet?
Nice to know we can write on our cuben stuff sacks or color code them if we want. Yes we can see through them but some items like quilts and clothes can look the same.
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