TRADITIONAL AIRBRUSH ILLUSTRATION
Traditional airbrush painting (spray painting) can be done with most any proficiently smooth, thinned paints, inks or dyes on most any prepared semi-solid surface. I have illustrated with watercolor inks, photo retouching dyes, food-grade dyes, face & body-art makeup, textile inks, artist's acrylics, sign enamels, various automotive tints and paints. I own and use both double-action and single-action airbrushes in siphon-fed and gravity-fed models in several brands such as Iwata, Paasche, Thayer & Chandler and Badger. I've also decorated with Paasche's air-eraser using aluminum oxide abrasive for decorative glass etching.

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The Taxi airbrush illustration above is of my Paasche VJr, double-action, gravity-fed airbrush on taxi painting. The un-cropped original is 9x16" acrylic on masonite.
DENTAL SIGN

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The airbrush paintings featured are in various colorants
onto
surfaces of mylar, plastic, wood and metal.
I have
painted on items from the size of thumbtack heads to semi trailers
and other surfaces such as
wood and metal clipboards, faux vehicle plates,
mylar and vinyl
decals,
silk and cotton-content fabrics, tooled
leather,
rawhide,
human-skin (temporary tattoos to
full-body painting),
French-butter-cream-frosted cakes with food-grade dyes,
wall murals, canvas tipi with Earth pigments, rural mailboxes,
motorcycles, racecars,
recreational vehicles , trucks, trailers and boats.
Ancient pictographs found in a French cave
softly outlined the hands
of the artist or assistant centuries ago.
They
were made with thinned Earth pigments
blown through
small animal bones used as basic airbrushing tubes.
With this in mind, it was not such a rebel act for me to airbrush with
non-toxic leather pigments
on rawhide Ceremonial Drums. However, the inspiration for this drum was found on a native-style greeting card.

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I've created,
including a few more rawhide Ceremonial Drums.
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