Date: Sun, 1 Jan 95 11:13:35 MST
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From: lytle@noao.edu
Subject: Re: Bus Art: paint ideas and designs?
Joel sez (about painting my bus):
> how about like a greyhound bus? an airliner of your favorite travel company?
> shamu the whale on the side? a big desert tortoise on the side? native
> southwestern indian symbols on the side (it is a desert camper)?
In fact, I didn't write it down but another idea I've been kicking around
was to paint the sides with some of the Navajo rug designs. The only problem
is that it might be a little too complex, too much masking, switching colors,
etc. I might be able to simplify the design sufficiently to make it work
though. (I also like the "flute player" motif.)
Todd Schroeder wrote:
> Being from Tucson, you might appreciate this: My Bus is red with
> the white top, right? I had a thought once of painting white
> grout lines on the sides to make it look like brick, and writing
> "BEAR DOWN" in big black block letters on the roof, but I thought
> better of it.
Interesting, but I'm not really much of a sports fan. I support the Wildcats
but I think using their logo on my van would be a little much. Some of the
local UofA people might pay me a good price for the van if I ever sell it
and if it were painted that way though :-) .
Avery commented:
> i have an orange 75 deluxe camper i plan on painting soon
> i haven't decided yet but i think i am going to go with yellow front end with
> flames into orange rear (top included)
Ya, I kinda like flames and even scallops but I think they look better on
a vehicle that has been slammed. My bus isn't lowered at all, in fact I
am doing everything I can to make it *higher* off the ground.
Dan Geer:
> If I had my real druthers (i.e., if I
> didn't give a rat's ass whatsoever about
> how embarassed the kids would be), I'd
> have an artist friend paint it like the
> panel van the Mass Horticultural Society
> has -- rain forest canopy peppered with
> a riot of colored birds perched hither
> and yon.
A nice artist job like you mention would be excellent, I remember
seeing an article in Hot VWs a couple years ago about a company called
"Farm Fresh" that does VW restorations. The article featured a panel van
with a beautiful wrap around mural I really liked. Unfortunately, I'm not
much of an artist (at least with paint).
Eric Oster:
> I've decided to paint my bus Smurf blue, a pale smurf blue (almost white,
> like how they were originally painted.) and leave the bubble-top
> pure white. "Mommy, mommy, there's a smurf driving down the road!" :)
I've always liked blue, its my favorite color, specially light blue! But
the interior is orange, orange carpet, orange upholstery, etc., etc. I think
orange, white, brown, maybe green, go with orange. If I do red and/or blue
(maybe purple) I'll have to redo the inside... That might be OK though...
Happy New Year to all and thanks for all the input on this so far!
-Dyer
Dyer Lytle, National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, AZ, 602-323-4136
Internet: lytle@noao.edu WWW: http://iraf.noao.edu/~lytle/lytle.html