Hypothetically speaking if I knew a painting artist who gas experience on canvas...what kind of paint would be best to supply them with and what additional final protective coat is required to finalize the paint job?

Seems to me I need to stick with a bicycle painter who has experience working with titanium. Let's hope some of those I contacted will get back to me. One thing I did not mention that might make the work easier is the frame will have 4 couplers

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Hi Doug, what primer was the one that worked best with Titanium? If you don't mind my asking.

So "house of color" is the best paint? That is for airbrushing right? How about real brush work? What paint would you recommend?

I am now slightly pivoting into leaving the Titanium bare as a canvas with patterns painted onto it, interspersed. If this was, for example, a field of suns (yellow) one would need a primer under each sun only, bare titanium as a canvas and then clear coat over the whole frame?

I use House of Kolor paints because it was one of the 1st paint companies in the 80's to come out with glamour paints like pearls and candies that was compatible with polyurethane enamels. Lacquers look great but chip easily. It was originated by a guy named Kosmenski which is why their title words start with a k instead of a c. Eventually the company got bought out by Valspar. Once you start working with a product you build up a valuable inventory so you keep using it. The stuff works fine but the window of time between coats they recommend has to be strictly adhered to. It got a bad reputation in the 90's because some bicycle painters would not follow the timelines because of doing several colors with masks and that made the paint too dry between coats and as a result lost some durability.

H of K paint can be airbrushed but it is regular sprayable paint for cars or motorcycles or bicycle frames. It is not designed to be brushed on although tiny errors can be patched with a brush.

I wouldn't recommend having bare spots between color designs because no clear coat is designed to stick directly to titanium. That is the purpose of primer. The primer I use for titanium is old Dupont Corlar that has been taken off the market. I made sure to buy a supply before it was gone. Marvelous stuff. It wasn't popular with car painters because it was difficult to stir after settling if not used in awhile, had to incubate an hour after adding the activator and was slow drying unless baked. Car painters are not worried about durability but rather want something that they can put on fast. Besides it sticking power, Corlar also sanded beautifully too.