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Title: Lets see some limb art!
Post by: smoke on February 06, 2015, 11:30:03 am
Folks, I'm getting ready to put some paint on some limbs and need a little inspiration.  Show me some of your limb art please!
Title: Re: Lets see some limb art!
Post by: Josh B on February 06, 2015, 12:26:18 pm
It would be shameful stretch of the truth to call it art, but here is a Sudbury style(sort of) that I painted up quite a few years ago.  Josh
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Post by: bubby on February 06, 2015, 12:28:48 pm
Sweet josh
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Post by: adb on February 06, 2015, 01:04:03 pm
Couple...
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Post by: smoke on February 07, 2015, 09:54:04 am
No more takers?
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Post by: Joec123able on February 07, 2015, 10:09:05 am
Cool thread lets see more !!
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Post by: Comancheria on February 07, 2015, 10:14:20 am
Ain't painted one yet, but when I do, I plan to use some of the drawings you see on pictures of tepees--Warriors, horses, deer--that sort of thing.  Kind of like cave paintings.
Title: Re: Lets see some limb art!
Post by: adams89 on February 07, 2015, 10:15:08 am
 :)
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Post by: bubby on February 07, 2015, 10:27:07 am
(http://i623.photobucket.com/albums/tt320/bubncheryl/ishi%20bow/CAM01056_zps1p4iz5hf-1.jpg) (http://s623.photobucket.com/user/bubncheryl/media/ishi%20bow/CAM01056_zps1p4iz5hf-1.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Lets see some limb art!
Post by: JonW on February 07, 2015, 10:49:42 am
http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,35827.msg471166.html#msg471166
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Post by: Knoll on February 07, 2015, 11:09:05 am
Great limbs!  Wanna see more!!!
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Post by: Carson (CMB) on February 07, 2015, 11:11:31 am
Great idea for a thread. Adams89, I would like to see more of that pretty bow.
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Post by: adams89 on February 07, 2015, 03:30:13 pm
for carson
http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,49715.0.html
Title: Re: Lets see some limb art!
Post by: E. Jensen on February 07, 2015, 05:20:18 pm
I was going to paint my first soon!  What's a good finish, preferably natural, to put over the paint?
Title: Re: Lets see some limb art!
Post by: smoke on February 08, 2015, 02:03:43 pm
Certainly some nice work out there folks.  Jensen, I'm a crummy artist but a finish that protects my feeble work is shellac - which you can buy from Carson at Echo Archery.  I really like the way it looks and it has been used as a work preservative for at least 3000 years.
Title: Re: Lets see some limb art!
Post by: Auggie on February 08, 2015, 07:19:47 pm
heres  some
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Post by: Badly Bent on February 08, 2015, 10:00:27 pm
I've done way more painted bows than I care to admit, could bore you with multiple pictures but I won't.
Here are a few though.
Keep in mind that these designs are copyrighted smoke so you can't duplicate them. ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: Aaron H on February 08, 2015, 10:08:18 pm
Badly Bent- I always enjoy seeing your bows for a number of reasons, one of those being your limb art.
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Post by: Sasquatch on February 08, 2015, 10:10:58 pm
I love all the submissions before these.  But here are two of my most recent.
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Post by: Chadwick on February 08, 2015, 11:38:28 pm
Adams & Bubby, I like! Those are pretty. I've made a ton of non-decorated bows. What would be good for my lovely bride?
Title: Re: Lets see some limb art!
Post by: bubby on February 08, 2015, 11:43:12 pm
My guess would be anything that you made her that had a personal touch
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Post by: E. Jensen on February 09, 2015, 12:32:13 am
The planning stages of my first attempt to paint a bow.  I'm not great at conceptualizing knots so the loops don't weave into each other as much as they could.
Title: Re: Lets see some limb art!
Post by: E. Jensen on February 09, 2015, 01:18:24 am
The first limb took 2.5 hours, the second limb took 20 minutes...easier ones I had something to go off of.  I've noticed a lot of similarities between scandinavian art and native american art, so I incorporated an element I know exists in native american art.  In a lot of N.A. rugs, the pattern is a mirror, but not perfectly symetrical or identical.  There is always something that makes it a little off.  Different color, slightly different proportion, etc etc.  So in that fashion, I made the patterns on each limb similar but different. 
Title: Re: Lets see some limb art!
Post by: Del the cat on February 09, 2015, 12:20:40 pm
Only ever put paint on one...
Wacky Abstarct job on a Hazel bow with flipped tips :laugh:
Del
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Post by: soy on February 09, 2015, 03:34:09 pm
(http://i1082.photobucket.com/albums/j380/thadsoy/Mobile%20Uploads/IMAG0002.jpg) (http://s1082.photobucket.com/user/thadsoy/media/Mobile%20Uploads/IMAG0002.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Lets see some limb art!
Post by: E. Jensen on February 11, 2015, 01:20:31 am
Got to painting today.
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Post by: jeffp51 on February 11, 2015, 01:52:38 am
what do the runes say?
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Post by: medicinewheel on February 11, 2015, 03:57:36 am
Some of mine:

(All are painted on rawhide)
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Post by: medicinewheel on February 11, 2015, 04:10:13 am
Some more:
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Post by: medicinewheel on February 11, 2015, 04:14:28 am
Not painted but done with pronounced hemp wrappings and dyed:
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Post by: E. Jensen on February 11, 2015, 09:28:56 am
The runes spell out my last name
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Post by: alwayslookin on February 11, 2015, 10:57:31 am
Great art guys!
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Post by: Adam on February 11, 2015, 12:45:48 pm
Wow! You guys sure are talented.
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Post by: Onebowonder on February 11, 2015, 01:38:21 pm
Quote from: Del the cat on February 09, 2015, 12:20:40 pm
Only ever put paint on one...
Wacky Abstarct job on a Hazel bow with flipped tips :laugh:
Del
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