On Painting and Color
On the subject of Painting and Color we offer here a brief introduction. We are reminded of Alberti’s understanding of Mathematics as one of the highest orders of knowledge, and its importance in painting as a means to reproduce the beauty of nature. Inspired by Tonatiuh’s Southern California’s nature, sky, vegetation, flowers, and luminosity, painting and color are two more expressive elements in our aesthetics and design.
Wet paint, applied correctly is a lustrous beautiful protective frame coating. Its first purpose is to ensure rust prevention throughout the frame’s life span. Its second function is to permit the bicycle craftsman achieve another level of construction expression, the painting itself is another form of expression. Once we have “finished” metal sculpting a Slowcraft Maldoror frame, then we exercise our own color aesthetics and color application.
Our wet paint is carried out with Dupont’s Imron, this is a time tested material (used extensively in the aerospace industry) with superior qualities in adhesion, protection, and luminosity. It is, however, a solvent based paint, but if used under proper conditions and applied with HVLP (high volume low pressure) technology, a small and very limited fabrication workshop like Slowcraft Maldoror can attain an infinite color palate with a significant low impact to the environment and the painter (SM). We take great care in preparing a frame for paint, in its application, and color design. Slowcraft Maldoror’s colors are “off the chart” full custom colors, designed and mixed by Sir Maldoror himself. These are matched with a great repetoire of painting techniques, such as fades, color layering, custom mixing, gold and silver leafing, handbrushed lettering and pinstripping.
Not for the color Blind!
Specializing in: opaques, candies, metallics, flakes, and opalescences, triple chrome, “rat rod primer” and flat clears, all baked and cured to be bomb proof!