Block Out

I finally get approval from Ben Wheeler, RC, and Moon Pie. So getting started on the wall, I block out the area to paint using a flat finish white Killz exterior oil base.

Then I pounced the logos on the wall to get a rough idea where the cream color goes. Pounce is an ancient method of transferring a pattern to a surface that dates back to - who knows how far. I also saw it in the old Charlton Heston movie, "The Agony and the Ecstasy" about Michelangelo painting the Sistine Chapel. According to the movie, he drew the figures out on paper in charcoal while he was in his studio, then took a metal stylus and poked millions of little holes along the outlines. He hauled the patterns up the scaffolding and had his assistants hold them up against the ceiling. Then he took a pounce bag (cheese cloth filled with charcoal dust) and poofed the outlines up on the ceiling. Presto the outline was up there. It was in the movie, so you know it had to be true. Hollywood doesn't lie!!!!

I did kinda the same thing. We use to use it at the sign shop I worked in when I was a young buck. At my friend's sign shop, I projected my sketch onto big ole paper and traced it with Sharpy. Then I traced the outlines with an electric pen on a metal table surface and burned zillions of tiny holes in the paper. Sometimes it shocks me bbbbbut, IIIII've done thththis for years and................................................Sorry, I blacked out there for a second. And as for the pounce bag - a sock filled with charcoal dust. Crazy, right?