Airbrush
Basics
Airbrush
basics are for those just beginning to explore airbrush art and those
who want to learn to paint in a new and unique way with their
airbrush.
By
Alisa Amor
This
is not your normal “airbrush basics” information. I hope to show
you some new and unique possibilities and artistic effects that you
can learn how to paint with your airbrush in a completely new way
that you probably haven't seen before.
You
can find information about traditional airbrushing for beginners like
everyone else in so many places. I want to tell you about new
airbrush techniques that are adapted from the world of Mexican spray
paint art.
When
I first began to learn spray paint art techniques with my airbrush, I
had to do a lot of experimentation. I literally spent hours in my
garage every day for over a year trying different mixes of paint,
paper, and tools.
I
had learned the basics of spray paint art from Gerardo Amor in
Mexico. There were so many cool painting techniques that I knew how
to do with a spray can. Now I wanted to transfer them all to use
with my airbrush.
The
first thing I needed to do was to find an airbrush that could change
colors as quickly as I could pick up a new can of spray paint. After
much searching around, I found the “quick change airbrush” from
Harbor Freight. This airbrush was only $11!
For
those beginners looking for how to learn to paint with an airbrush,
most artists don't know that you can use newspaper to move the paint
around on your paper. Just like in spray paint art, you can use
plastic plates as stencils to make planets. You can use kitchen
sponges to take off delicate layers of paint.
To
paint like this, you need to be working with thicker paint than most
airbrush artists use.
How
you mix the paint is very important. One essential thing that
airbrush beginners need to know, is that if they mix paint from a
tube for their airbrush, they need to filter it before running it
through their airbrush. I like to use a piece of cut stocking over
my mixing bottles to insure that no lumps get into my airbrush. This
makes learning to paint much more enjoyable.
What
is nice about the quick change airbrush is that no maintenance is
necessary. Most airbrushes require constant maintenance and
cleaning, but this brush frees you from that problem! The paint
never enters the brush itself, but is propelled directly from the
paint canister to your painting surface. You can learn without
constantly cleaning your brush! It's just faster.
Airbrushing
for beginners usually requires some skill in drawing, but learning to
airbrush paint with spray paint art techniques frees you from having
to learn to draw before you ever pick up an airbrush. These
techniques make it easy to paint space scenes, landscapes, mountains
and much much more without knowing how to draw even a stick figure!
Learn To Paint the Easy Way
If
you are looking for information on airbrushing that doesn't require
you to learn to draw to be able to paint, you are in the right place!
It's very hard to find techniques that work this way, but they do
exist when you learn from the spray paint artists of Mexico. These
techniques make it so that the paint actually does the work for you!
You can learn easily and effortlessly with this method.
I
hope that you have enjoyed this introduction to new airbrush painting
techniques and that you will explore these new options.
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