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.

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

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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