I'm wanting to paint a few cheap bodhrans with custom designs for some of my friends and family. I'm just not sure what the best kind of paint would be, since they might actually hit the thing once in a while. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
How nice . . . so much more tasteful than, say, donkeys with straw hats on, or pictures of dogs smoking pipes, or the shrunken heads of defeated enemies.
Preparation should be with a light sandpapering of the surface, then use an oil based primer followed by a low sheen. I reccomend Dulux, I've used it on timber front fences and it wears real well . A foam roller rather than a brush.
A serious answer is required, as this will result in more bodhrans spending their entire lives hanging on walls. Try FW acrylic inks - very permanent and a good range of colours: http://www.daler-rowney.com/content/fw-artists-inks
Painting the bodhran, certainly central to musicianship and the Tradition. Lessee -
Perhaps some type of textured acrylic, the better to spackle with for a nice adobe effect. Spackle pastes work well, and you can mold and sculpt it to a cetain extant.
Or maybe spray paint.
It is, after all, a bodhran.
Quality should be uppermost in your mind. The Victoria & Albert Museum's experts indicate the use of watercolour on animal hide. Specifically:
"Elizabethan miniaturist Nicholas Hilliard particularly recommended painting on the skin of an aborted calf, which was hairless and very smooth."
Hilliard's brilliant results point toward fitting the bodhran with the skin of an aborted calf before beginning the painting process. The stretched-out skin of an aborted mammal, skillfully struck by a tipper, should produce interesting overtones.
The "interesting overtones", NPDECO, will come from the massed howling of the international friends of innocent animals, temporarily distracted from protesting seal hunts and the like.
tee he, I like the idea of a painting one of those really cute harp seal pups on a bodhran. Looking out at you with those little sad eyes, it's chin resting on the pure snow. Waiting to be bludgeoned to a horrible and bloody death by some half-wit beardy folkie with his double ended truncheon. Ho ho
How about with your own blood? Then when people ask you to try a flick knife as a beater you can say you've tried, should get you a few drinks...........
A big crusty guy turned up at one of our sessions a few times back in the day. He'd say to the girls, "thats real blood that", and then give a big wink. Fortunately he was a New Age Traveler who actually traveled ; > ) so all's well that end's well. Look out for him at a session near you, I think his name was Skag.
We were presented with a bodhran, surplus to requirements, having been the property of an old friend of ours who was coming to the end of her life, and had painted on it, when newly acquired from Dublin in the '70s', a small piece of celtic knotwork.
Alas, getting these decorations symmetrical is quite tricky and hard to do on a first attempt, so it has this lop-sided appearance, but we wouldn't attempt to remove it for many sentimental reasons.
Painting a bodhran
Painting a bodhran
I'm wanting to paint a few cheap bodhrans with custom designs for some of my friends and family. I'm just not sure what the best kind of paint would be, since they might actually hit the thing once in a while. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers!
# Posted on June 11th 2009 by adrianirish
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You might bring them to a Tattoo Parlour
# Posted on June 11th 2009 by Red Robin
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Don't get on so well with your friends and family then?
# Posted on June 11th 2009 by ...
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How nice . . . so much more tasteful than, say, donkeys with straw hats on, or pictures of dogs smoking pipes, or the shrunken heads of defeated enemies.
# Posted on June 11th 2009 by showaddydadito
Re: Painting a bodhran
Preparation should be with a light sandpapering of the surface, then use an oil based primer followed by a low sheen. I reccomend Dulux, I've used it on timber front fences and it wears real well . A foam roller rather than a brush.
# Posted on June 11th 2009 by Tony O'Rourke
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I'm surprised no one's yet suggested using a stanley knife to paint it with... the mustard board is slipping!
# Posted on June 11th 2009 by SineadE
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A serious answer is required, as this will result in more bodhrans spending their entire lives hanging on walls. Try FW acrylic inks - very permanent and a good range of colours: http://www.daler-rowney.com/content/fw-artists-inks
# Posted on June 11th 2009 by RichardB
Re: Painting a bodhran
Painting the bodhran, certainly central to musicianship and the Tradition. Lessee -
Perhaps some type of textured acrylic, the better to spackle with for a nice adobe effect. Spackle pastes work well, and you can mold and sculpt it to a cetain extant.
Or maybe spray paint.
It is, after all, a bodhran.
Good luck.
# Posted on June 11th 2009 by Piece
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hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
with paint dear susan dear susan dear susan,
with paint dear susan with paint, with paint
# Posted on June 11th 2009 by mcknowall
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Fifteen coats of Hammerite should do it.
# Posted on June 11th 2009 by Sugarfoot Jack
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Quality should be uppermost in your mind. The Victoria & Albert Museum's experts indicate the use of watercolour on animal hide. Specifically:
"Elizabethan miniaturist Nicholas Hilliard particularly recommended painting on the skin of an aborted calf, which was hairless and very smooth."
Hilliard's brilliant results point toward fitting the bodhran with the skin of an aborted calf before beginning the painting process. The stretched-out skin of an aborted mammal, skillfully struck by a tipper, should produce interesting overtones.
# Posted on June 11th 2009 by NEW Pure Drop® Ear Canal Oil
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The "interesting overtones", NPDECO, will come from the massed howling of the international friends of innocent animals, temporarily distracted from protesting seal hunts and the like.
# Posted on June 12th 2009 by oldstrings
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tee he, I like the idea of a painting one of those really cute harp seal pups on a bodhran. Looking out at you with those little sad eyes, it's chin resting on the pure snow. Waiting to be bludgeoned to a horrible and bloody death by some half-wit beardy folkie with his double ended truncheon. Ho ho
# Posted on June 12th 2009 by ...
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How about paining a goat standing there with no skin?
You know, in the style of an anatomy text book.
- chris
# Posted on June 12th 2009 by ramblingpitchfork
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ps make it look angry
# Posted on June 12th 2009 by ramblingpitchfork
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ha ha, yeah. Or just a goat's arse
(don't think about the double ended truncheon ... doh, now you have)
# Posted on June 12th 2009 by ...
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How about with your own blood? Then when people ask you to try a flick knife as a beater you can say you've tried, should get you a few drinks...........
A big crusty guy turned up at one of our sessions a few times back in the day. He'd say to the girls, "thats real blood that", and then give a big wink. Fortunately he was a New Age Traveler who actually traveled ; > ) so all's well that end's well. Look out for him at a session near you, I think his name was Skag.
# Posted on June 12th 2009 by Solidmahog
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Ive always thought a skull and cross-bones would be a suitable goat decoration, also serving as a warning.
# Posted on June 12th 2009 by geoffwright
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How about a slogan?:
"Neck needed for banjo!"
# Posted on June 12th 2009 by ramblingpitchfork
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"My other owner is a musician"
# Posted on June 12th 2009 by ...
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# Posted on June 12th 2009 by ramblingpitchfork
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A biohazard sign maybe.
# Posted on June 12th 2009 by DrSilverSpear
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Perhaps:
A dart board?
Or a wee little leprechauny, holding his ears.
Or perhaps shooting himself?
Ah, there's my coffee.
(Happy feeling back!)
Mornin', all.
# Posted on June 13th 2009 by Piece
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We were presented with a bodhran, surplus to requirements, having been the property of an old friend of ours who was coming to the end of her life, and had painted on it, when newly acquired from Dublin in the '70s', a small piece of celtic knotwork.
Alas, getting these decorations symmetrical is quite tricky and hard to do on a first attempt, so it has this lop-sided appearance, but we wouldn't attempt to remove it for many sentimental reasons.
# Posted on June 14th 2009 by Guernsey Pete