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estebanana -> RE: Hand Painting on Guitar Top (Sep. 28 2025 3:28:38)
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You see they left the top alone and decorated the sides and back which is a better design decision, and it’s classy because the sides take to decorative elements much better than the top. The back is much easier to prepare for a paint film, and the image doesn’t compete with the other features of the top like bridge, rosette & fingerboard.
The other thing to consider that makes a flamenco guitar with a painted top a stupendously bad idea is that if the tap plate ever needs to be removed and replaced it will be a hellish nightmare for whomsoever has to to the work because they will risk tearing off the paint.
I don’t particularly like the landscape in the back, but the ribs are kind of interesting and not distracting, think it all works together in any case.
I can’t tell from the photo, but I suspect that part of the rib decoration was created by masking off the actual wood with frisket paper and spraying dark paint over the masking. Then the script was put over that, allowing the orginal wood rib to show through as a lighter color in the design. And the other reason it looks so good is that the decoration is contained in by white border lines. The landscape also appears to use the original wood in the final image because the paint is layered down in glazes over the ground color. So the painter put on a thin opaque layer of paint over the back and lightly sanded it, then painted the image with oil paint or possibly acrylic or even enamel mixed with a clear glaze medium to make the paint translucent, then as they painted they wiped the paint back and burnished/ sanded the surface to allow different layers of pigment to create the image. Some areas like the sky and foreground are very thinly painted and then sort of burnished and the central horizontal layers making the images of architecture are thicker layers more built up, but still wiped or lightly polished.
If the work is done this way with gradual thin glazes rather than thick strokes with wet paint the surface will be smoother and thinner.
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