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FEATURE
Custom painting fires up auto shop
Personalized panel work for students, by
students in Custom Paint Fundamentals
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Nic Delzell
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Want a flame painted down the
side of your ride? The Clackamas
Automotive department can help.
Custom Paint Fundamentals
(CPF) 152 meets from 6:30 p.m. to
9:20 p.m. every Tuesday and
Thursday. The class focuses on
custom-painted, modern urethane
effects, which are images or graph
ics that appear on car panels. Since
no prequisite is required, anyone
interested can take CPF 152.
“Stop by and see what we’re
doing,” said CPF 152 instructor
Dave Bradley. “We have students
that range from 14 years old to 78.”
According to Bradley, students
who take CPF 152 learn how to cre
ate specific effects that differ from
term to term, depending on the
work order. Bradley also teaches
Air Brush Art 142, usually offered
winter term. This class focuses on
full auto-body paint jobs.
“The chemistry portion is where
students get confused, but we do
“Stop by and
see what
we’re doing...
We can
(paint) almost
any graphic.”
Dave Bradley
Instructor
CPF 152
work with easy product lines that are
fun to work with. Custom shops
come from all over,” said Bradley.
“We can do almost any graphic or
image.”
A Dodge displayed at Federal
Distributing in Portland is just one
example of the class’ work.
Bradley didn’t talk about the
specifics of this particular image.
Painted on the hood, this panel
contains four different effects,
painted with pink, purple, white,
black and brandy wine. To Bradley,
this Dodge is the most intricate job
the class has been involved with
so far.
Custom panel work has become
rather popular.
“Quite a few students have come
in,” said Bradley. “We have done so
many in the past years.”
The automotive department at
Clackamas can help anyone save
money on custom paint jobs. They
are also available for many other
kinds of vehicle maintenance.
The class is almost as popular as
the work.
“Tuesdays and Thursdays CPF
152 is usually full,” said Bradley.
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(Above) White flames streak across a hood painted by
the Custom Paint Fundamentals (CPF) 152 class. (Right)
Flames seem to be the graphic of choice for the CPF 152
class, although other images are possible as well.
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Stevens shows passion for performing, directing
main stage production during her
stay here. She played Jessica in
“Communicating Doors,” Cecily in
“The Importance of Being Earnest”
and was the assistant director and
stage manager for “Much Ado
About Nothing” last year. This year
she appeared in “Crimes of the
Heart” as Meg and “Lend Me a
Tenor” as Maggie. In the upcoming
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“I like the fact that I can pretend
to be someone else,” Jayne Stevens
said when asked why she likes being
an actor.
Stevens has been attending
Clackamas for almost two years,
and she has participated in every
work at
production “A Lie of the Mind” she
will play Meg.
“I like to be myself,” said
Stevens, “but just for a few min
utes...it’s amazing that [people] could
actually believe I was someone else.”
Currently, Stevens is also direct
ing two one-act plays on campus.
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selected to direct a one-act play.
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Usually these plays are
about 10 minutes long. For
her production, however,
Stevens has chosen to put
on two shorter one-acts,
“Miss You” and “Just Hold
Me.” She is directing a total
of four actors for the two
plays.
Stevens has already start
ed to experience some of the
most difficult challenges that
come along with being a
director.
■ “I had to replace one of
my actors,” she said, saying
that he was replaced because
he didn’t memorize his lines.
“It helped to further show
how being prepared is such a
large part of theater,” she
said.
Stevens also took her turn
being directed in the student one-
acts. Last year she appeared in three
one-acts: “Madea,” “The Pumpkin”
and “Stretch the Bench.”
Stevens serves the theater depart
ment in areas off the stage as well.
As the costume assistant she aids
Alva Bradford, costume director, in
making and selecting costumes for
every
Clackamas
Community
College theater production.
Stevens didn’t get involved with
theater until junior high, but she
believes that her passion for per
forming started in her elementary
school’s choir.
“I was a singer before I was an
actor,” Stevens said.
Stevens sang in choirs all the way
through elementary, junior high and
high school, but somewhere along
JAYNE STEVENS
the way she realized that the per
formance aspect of singing in front of
an audience was her favorite part.
She began performing in community
theater in junior high, often combin
ing her two talents by appearing in
musicals.
Stevens moved on to become
very involved with her high school’s
theater department. She also directed
a children’s play, “Snow White and
the Seven Dwarves,” while she was
in high school.
“Theater was the only thing I
liked about high school,” Stevens
said.
Stevens plans to transfer to PSU
this fall and will most likely pursue a
double major in theater and sociolo
gy. She also has plans to start singing
for and recording with a local song
writer in the near future.