today we are going to be painting a graffiti piece with all of this spray paint! the dang
Prime spray paint brand just recently came out with 10 totally new colours, and that is why we
have to test them out. I'll tell you the story here. a couple years ago bombing science had
me do a full review of the dang Prime spray paint and one of the things I noticed and
mentioned in that review was that the yellow in particular didn't really cover that well,
and there weren't that many reds in their colour line. and now, out of these 10 new
colours that they've released, nine of them are in the yellow-orange-red spectrum. so right now
we're actually going to pick out a sketch that we want to turn into a full graffiti piece on
a wall and then we'll pack up our paint once we have a colour scheme sorted out,
and then we will head over to the painting spot so that we can see exactly how these new dang Prime
paint colours cover and perform in a full graffiti piece. so let's find a piece to do here. [Music]
okay, originally I was thinking I would actually try and finish this sketch off
here but because I actually haven't painted anything but freestyle in quite some time,
I think it's a bit too complicated. and I want to give myself the best chance to not
mess up the design part of the piece. because I want to be able to actually sketch it out on
the wall first accurately I think what we're gonna do is we're gonna go with this one here.
pretty simple. I think it should be okay but I think that's the plan.
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now I always shake my cans before I go painting anywhere. painting takes enough energy out of
you if you're doing a big piece. you don't want to be fooling around shaking cans at the spot.
so what I'm going to do while I show you guys the painting process here is tell you two main
things about these new colours; one, I'll show you how these new colours are covering directly
compared to the other dang colours. that's why we're using some of both in this piece. and two,
I want to talk about the newer cans themselves because the new colours slash cans to me felt
way better here. I have some theories about why that is, which I will share with you of course,
but I do also want to discuss it with you guys. so feel free to get involved in the
comments when you hear my theories here. but as I start spacing out my letters for this graffiti
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so getting to the coverage of the new dang paint colours here. first of all, you'll see a graphic
on screen the whole time showing what cap I'm using in the clip that you're seeing. but here
we're using the light stone gray for the top part of this fill-in, and it's an older colour. [Music]
and I don't want to show you too much of the fill in or filling in the 3D here but all you need to
see is the coverage here so that when you see the new colours like we're going to use in the 3D,
you'll really see the difference. now these lighter colours are pretty hard in general to
make cover well. and you can see that with the white we used in the fill in also. but bear in
mind I really only did one coat of paint on the whole piece here for the most part. and
with the orange like you're seeing in the 3D we used Funk Orange. and the other new colour there
was tomato red. the orange is obviously easier to pigment or make opaque which you're seeing there
pretty much hands down. but this is where I want to talk about the second thing I said I wanted
everyone's opinion on. and it's that my gosh these newer cans feel way better! I don't know if they
changed anything in the valves with them a bit or something like that but they feel way different.
they're a lot more buttery than the older Dang cans I was using there. maybe it's just because
my older cans have been sitting a bit longer and their valves aren't totally clear or something
like that but to me the new ones the valves feel better to me somehow. and that's really made clear
with the outline I think. I hope you can see just how super comfortable the outline felt for me.
now I really botched the background here so we're just not gonna talk about that too
much. but the blue colour from the dang paint there is Ultra Blue. it's one of
the new ones. and to be honest all the blue colours are really nice in this paint line.
so as I do the last bit of the outline on this graffiti piece here, because watching an outline
really is the most satisfying thing, I'm gonna tell you a little secret about a method I use
for painting here that you may have already picked up on actually. and that is that you
may have noticed I only used two caps for this entire piece. and that's the same for almost
all of my pieces really. I've got the New York fat cap and I got that Lego thin cap there and
that's it. people ask me about caps all the time and my answer is really boring because
I legit just use a couple caps per piece. but anyway I'll let you absorb a little bit more
of the piecing process here in peace while I finish this up. but like I had on screen
earlier if you want bombing science to comment and confirm if they have done some changes to
the valve system in the dang cans, throw a like on the video! one thing you guys might
not know is that this video is going straight to Fred's inbox. he very kindly sent over these
new colours for us to test out here on the channel. so you guys can see them [Music]
and he'll hopefully be able to give us an answer. and at the end of course I'll show you the final
piece but I'll also tell you one method I use to help me improve my graffiti pieces as well.
so obviously I'm not the best artist on the wall or anything like that but I am always
trying to improve. one way I try to improve is trying different piecing challenges. one
I did was painting a whole piece just with a fan cap! it's in the description where
the skillshare free trial is if you want to check it out. another one I did though was
painting a whole piece using only the lpn1 cap that was the new cap that just came out
fairly recently. it was a super interesting one. if you want to check out that new cap,
that's the video on screen right now. I hope to see you over there soon! until then, peace!