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Airbrush Lesson #5
By Don Johnson
Airhead
Airbrush.Com, Inc
www.airbrushartistmagazine.com
www.airbrushtechniquemagazine.com
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Here in Airbrush Lesson #5
you can put to use all the airbrushing skills you have developed while
practicing the basic airbrush lessons; dagger stroke, shading etc. as posted
here on How To Airbrush.Com There was no photograph as a reference for this and
I don't usually paint flowers, but thought this would be a good way for you to
test the skills you've learned here at How To Airbrush.Com. It's only paint,
relax and have fun with it.
In this lesson we'll work with a masking
material commonly know as Frisket Film. Please remember that LESS paint is
more, the least amount of paint you use the better off you will be.
What you will need :
Good double action airbrush (Iwata,Paasche). Gravity feed
airbrush would work best, but use whatever airbrush you have.
X-acto knife
with several blades
Frisk Film, matt masking film a sheet 8 by 12 inches at
least
I used Strathmore Bristol Board 8 by 12 inches regular surface, use
what you have on hand , illustration board etc.
Comart colors Transparent
Burnt Umber , Op. lime green , transparent cadmium yellow. |
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Above : To come up
with this flower design I used several different drafting French Curves; these
you can buy at just about any office supply store. With the design laid out on
the painting surface apply Frisk masking film. Work any air bubbles out by
working from the center out toward both sides. Carefully cut the design out,
use a new blade in your knife and you will hardly need to apply any pressure to
cut the film; let the blade do the work your hand will follow your eyes. Cut
the design out so that pencil lines are inside the area you will be painting;
do this so you can ease the pencil lines as you pull the Frisk Film off too
paint. As you pull the frisk film off be sure to ease any pencil lines showing.
Make sure you keep the Frisk backing paper to store the Frisk cut outs on as we
will be replacing some of them later. Start by pulling the center and stem
Frisk off first. Make a reference mark on the center frisk film as we will be
replace it back on the center. Now using transparent Burnt Umber airbrush an
area of shading into the center, leave the very center much lighter as the
sides are in the shade much more than the center would be. Chose which
direction your light source will be coming from and apply your Burnt Umber
accordingly. Use a darker color like the Burnt Umber and it will make that area
seem further in the background (it's a cool color). Leaving the center white
will pull that area forward in your painting helping to define the center of
the flower as being closer. Use the lime green on the stem; here you want both
side's darker with the center of the stem lighter. This should appear to push
both sides back and the center of the stem forward.
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Above: With the
Cadmium Yellow airbrush color into the center of the flower and down the very
middle of the stem to warm that area, bring it forward. The yellow being a warm
color will trick the human eye into bring that part of the painting forward.
Replace the center and stem Frisk Film. You can read more detailed information
about the use of warm and cool colors in
Airbrush Artist
Magazine.
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Above: With the Frisk
Film replaced in the center of the flower and on the stem pull the upper most
peddle Frisk Film off (upper most being upper as I have airbrushed above). Use
Lime Green to add shading where the peddle goes under the center of the flower
and to give the peddle some form. Pull the next Frisk Film off and do the same;
I do not replace the Frisk Film as I move on too airbrush the next peddle. Use
low PSI and over spray will not be an issue; 10 to 12 psi. The goal with these
practice painting's is for you to learn to control your airbrush; the best way
to do this is get that air pressure down as low as possible. The lower the air
pressure the slower you can move your airbrush and the more control you will
have. The more control you have your ability to render fine detail becomes much
easier. So crank that pressure down.
Above: Continue one peddle at a
time, one after the other defining the peddles with the
green.
Above: As you can see all the
peddles have the green applied to them now it's onto the next
step.
Above: Now using the
Cadmium Yellow and staying back several inches from the paper fog in the flower
peddles with a nice light application of color. Pull the center and stem frisk
off and touch up any area needed with the yellow. You can see all the over
spray on the Frisk Film surrounding the flower.
Above: Pull the all
the remaining Frisk Film off and your painting is complete, sign your name and
hang it on the refrigerator door as your first airbrushed painting. Until next
time remember its just paint, relax and have fun. Don Airhead at
Airhead
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I hope you
found this article helpful.
Two more great resources to learn more about
airbrushing, kustom painting are my airbrush, kustom painting magazines. Check
them out via the links below. Until next time "It's just paint" have
fun.
Airbrush
Technique Magazine
Airbrush Artist Magazine
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