Laying Shades of Color by Stippling

[Stippled Popper 0]

Laying Shades Of Color

 

From: Using Stipple Dots To Add Detail To Fly Rod Poppers And Sliders - 2017 Version

 

Ingredients:

Paint: White, Black, Mixed Olive, Mixed Seminole Green(2 shades), Pure Seminole Green

Tools: Brass Rods in Three sizes for the eyes. Several different diameter blunted needles

Popper Body / yours for choice

Appropriate hook of choice

 

Brush Light Olive color on the top half and White on the bottom half

half of the popper. Dot in the lightest Seminole Green over the upper

region you have painted Light Olive.

 

Dot the Light Olive color into the brushed White area of the popper.

Note larger dots are added where the two colors meet and increasinglly

smaller dots further down.

 

Dot White dots into the brushed Light Olive are of the popper stopping

before reaching where the Light Seminole Green dots have been placed.

 

Dot Medium Mixed Seminole Green into the area where the lighter

Seminole green was added. Leave areas of the Olive and lighter

Seminole green visible.

 

Dot in the Pure Seminole Green color, more widely spaced, into the

top of the popper using the same size tool and then much smaller dots

into the rest of that area. Again, do not completely blot out the Olive and

lighter colors.

 

Continue adding small pure Seminole Green dots into the White area of

the popper. The line where the two brushed on background colors meet

should no longer stand out.

 

Scatter a few Seminole Green dots in the White bottom of the popper.

This should be the smallest dots of all those placed.

 

It is time to add in the eyes. My preference is to place the eyes just shy

of the very front and as close to the center from top to bottom as possible

with the unaided eye. I flip the popper over so I can see the front edge to

place the first eye dot on the other side. If you are uncertain of your steady

hand. Place the eyes before step one above. You don't want to have

wasted all the effort before this step by mucking up the eye.

 

Place a smaller White Dot inside the Black dot.

 

Place a smaller Black dot within the White dot. Center it or

somewhere else in the White area according to you whim.

 

Optionally add a gleam dot to the eye of the popper.

 

Add dots into the cup of the popper. Leave spaces for smaller

dots to be placed in the next step.

 

Place dots between the dots in the cup which you added

in the previous set. On the lip of the popper add a few dots.

 

Finished and tailed poppers using this design in different colors. . . Royal Blue over top of Blue Heaven and Olive over Lemon Lime

[RickZieger 0]

Nice tutorial.

 

Rick

[fshng2 0]

Nice work, thanks for sharing.

[AZWoolybugger 0]

Beautiful work as always! Thanks for the tutorial.

[Mike West 0]

I've tried to duplicate your effects before with mixed results. Although some of them came out OK none of them came out as nice as yours. This helps a lot to understand how you achieve it.

 

Going to have to give it another try it now you can never have too many poppers .

 

Thank you for taking the time on doing this tutorial

[Stippled Popper 0]

Thanks for the comments. As you can probably tell, each image is of a separate popper I worked on and

then photographed each step together in one session. I think this is easiest to see in the images of painting

the eye. It takes longer than photographing each step in one popper. But it helps me work on consistency.