Equipment: Iwata eclipse HP-CS airbrush, small compressor, expansion tank, regulator with water trap, various hoses, masking tape, red scrubby pad, fishing line, wire grid backing and primer/red/white/blue spray paint.

Here are the world famous female forms cleverly stolen from Costco during the swim suit season. These were nabbed to practice painting designs to use on women so we wouldn't have to subject models to hours of boredom just to have a failed design. I used a cheap auto primer on these three forms after roughing them up with a red scrubby pad. Advice alert - Use the correct primer for the material you are painting on. The wrong one can be worse than no primer at all. I dropped one of these after they were almost done and the paint exploded off the form the night before the Blues Festival. Serious drag.

I spayed all the forms with a flat white paint. The plan was to give the bright colors something to "pop" off of. Beside white was the main color of the design. I use 1/8" masking tape to do the design masking, then 1" masking tape and newspaper to mask large areas.

Sprayed the colors. I did blue first, allowed that to dry and then remasked and sprayed the red.

Ta-da the base stripes are ready.

I attached the forms at this point to the wire grids using fishing line and a needle. I attached the forms in unobtrusive spots that provided support in five areas.

Here is where Lisa took over to create the real art. We tried templates for the stars, but the unique shape of the forms forced her to do them freehand. Look at the stars closely, some are not complete. This was to create the illusion of the flag waving over itself.

Finally the shading was added to give the flag depth. This completes the folding of the flag over itself.

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