Airbrushing
is a way of painting using a brush that sprays the paint onto the
paper of other surface. Usually the air comes from a compressor.
Many airbrush artists work freehand and others use stencils and
templates. There is a new kind of airbrush technique based on
Mexican spray paint art which uses plates, newspaper, and other
surprising household materials to create new kinds of airbrush
effects.
There
are many kinds of airbrush tips and tricks used to get different
kinds of airbrush effects. For example you can hold the brush at
different lengths and angles from your paper or canvas to get
different kinds of effects. You can mix your paint differently and
can use opaque, transparent, iridescent, fluorescent and many other
types of paint to get different effects.
There
are many good ways to make a living as an airbrush artist. Many
airbrush artists do illustration work, work in fairs painting
t-shirts. I think one wonderful way to make a living as an airbrush
artist is to paint people's cars, motor homes, motorcycles and other
vehicles. You can often create an agreement with your local auto body
shop to find clients and they make money glossing your work.
Everybody wins. Other options are gallery work and street painting.
Up
till now, most airbrush street artists have been limited to t-shirt
work and similar but now there are new airbrushing
videos tutorials with new techniques that
allow the airbrush artist to speed paint landscape and cosmic art in
minutes for an audience.
Learn
How to Airbrush
It's
great if you
can draw, but it's not absolutely necessary. There are techniques
that use plates, bowls
and newspaper that are based on Mexican spray paint art that do not
require any drawing skill to learn. In fact, they teach you about
drawing without you actually realizing you are learning! There are
airbrushing videos tutorials and classes to teach you these new
techniques.
Practice
All
skills require much practice to master and this includes airbrushing.
The important thing is that
the practice doesn't feel like practice, that's it's so fun that you
just enjoy yourself! The first
step is to get your equipment set up and to begin practicing basic
skills. With most airbrush art
video tutorials you will be taught to create fine detail with
different strokes of the brush. With the new techniques you will do
something much more fun to begin learning basic skills. You will
start by creating planets and cosmic scenes! It's very important to
make sure that the place where you work is well ventilated to prevent
yourself from breathing paint. You may want to use a mask designed for
preventing dust and particles from entering into your lungs.
Training
Many
people learn airbrush on their own and many choose to take advantage
of online video tutorials that are available. You can spend a lot of
time searching for free materials and begin to learn some interesting
things, but the best way to learn good airbrushing tricks in my
opinion is with airbrushing tutorials, and classes that take you step
by step and give you all the information, links and explanations that
you need to get it right from the very beginning.
Keep
learning
Airbrushing
is an art form that has no limit. There are many ways to approach it
and once you learn something, it's important to keep evolving and
adding to the techniques so that you do something that is original
and unique.
If
you are an airbrush artist, check out some new tips and techniques on
airbrushing so that you can learn to have fun as you learn your new
skills!
I
hope you enjoyed this post – and have great day!
I
hope you've enjoyed this brief tour of airbrush art/spray paint art
techniques.