Groovy's New Tats

My car's name is Groovy. Very slowly -- like, glacier slow -- I've been painting designs on Groovy over the last few months. I have no overarcing plan. I wish I did, but the throes of this particular idea brooked no waiting.

Here are some pictures.





This is the roof. My main aesthetic is: circles. I like the happy accident of the house reflected. I am less fond of the bird crap I didn't bother to wipe off before taking the picture.

I've actually done more since I took this picture, adding a rectangle of all the scandalous things.





I think this is going to be ghosts in a rock band on a trippy yellow stage. However, it was going to be three other things before that, so caveat custodes. Here's a closer shot.




The paint I used for the ghosts was on sale. When I opened it, I found out why: The stuff was more putty than liquid. It congealed on my brush as I worked, so eventually I just started finger painting with it. For once watching paint dry wasn't boring -- it was a race against time.

Several minutes later, when it dried, it looked like I'd gobbed Play-Doh onto the side of my car. Yesterday, I sanded some of the thickness (and my fingerprints) off. The fullness of drying (not pictured here) has caused the paint to crack, so my ghosts have the yellow background peeking through cracks in their green bodies. I can't tell whether I like this yet.