Helmet Decorating

My GF finally got a helmet, partly persuaded by the prospect of arting it up (from being around me and others with personalized headgear), and asked for help.

She's convinced she wants a decoupage of an octopus. But I've been a professional artist, and though I've done some great decoupage, personally I'd lean to enamel (model) painting something bold and simple. Other options range from stickers to sprays to sharpies to acrylics, etc.

We're hoping to make it happen Sunday. So I'd like to quickly collect some example photos of great helmets in various media to help brainstorm method, style, hints, etc, and figured you lot might wanna play along.

To start, here's my helmet, the product of an Active Trans "Make it Reflective" workshop. Meant to look like an evil totem face to scare cars away.

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Permalink Reply by Julie Aberman (Hochstadter) on May 7, 2014 at 2:53pm

This is pretty awesome. I remember when Jami would decorate our helmets with balloons.

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Permalink Reply by Andrew Bedno on May 24, 2014 at 3:18pm

Several light coats of spray paint full days apart, stick on some shiny things and voila, the chrome one is done.

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Permalink Reply by Andrew Bedno on May 24, 2014 at 3:20pm

Here's the bike map decoupage one done, after lots of thick glossy spray coats. That's a compass stuck on top.

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Permalink Reply by Andrew Bedno on May 24, 2014 at 3:24pm

Here's a kids one I bought to practice and test painting technique and ideas. Steel wool scoured to get off the decals and rough the surface, then a spotty coat of blue glitter spray, then various layers of acrylics (some UV active) over days.