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"Airbrush Lesson Four
Making & Using Stencils, Templates"
By Don
Johnson
Airhead Airbrush.Com, Inc
www.airbrushartistmagazine.com
www.airbrushtechniquemagazine.com
Here in airbrush lesson four I'm again
going to keep it very simple and fully expect you to out shine me here with
your finished painting. I will show you the very basic's of this simple
painting, it's up to you to take it a step further by adding different colors
etc.
Please feel free to show your work off on my airbrush forum
Airbrush Technique.Com once you complete airbrush basic lesson four.
Once again we will be using news print as we did in lesson one and the
color black. Please remember to use good airbrush ready paints like DR PH
Martins or Golden Airbrush colors. For this lesson you'll also need a piece of
thin card board and the top off a rattle can of paint.
Here we will be
using home made free hand shields practicing the skills we learned in lessons
one thru three in the "How To" airbrush series.
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Taking our piece of card board cut the
out line or rolling hills or mountains. Do so using the bottom one third of the
card board leaving two thirds above the rolling hills, mountains. Ti get more
jagged mountain peaks you can also tear the card board as opposed to using
scissors like I'm doing above. |
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Now take your home made free
hand shield and hold it against the news print about in the middle of the
page. |
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Apply a thin layer of color
spraying half on the free hand shield and half on the newsprint. Bring your
rolling hills, mountains down below the card board defining one hill, mountain
being in front of the others. |
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Moving the free hand shield
up the page place some hills, mountains behind the first your first row of
hills, mountains you just created. |
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Now with two rows of hills
or mountains we will go in a further define the shapes using very thin lines to
out them. |
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Starting with the hill, mountain that
will be in the back ground of your painting we will add some shading to help
create the look of depth to our painting. |
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While adding this shading please keep in
mind which direction your light source (the moon or sun) will be affecting the
hills, mountains from. In this case the sun or moon will be coming up behind
them. |
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Continue to define the
hills, mountains by applying nice even shading creating depth in your painting.
Nice even tone to the color, no hard lines at this point. |
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To control over spray keep
your airbrush directed down into the hills, mountains avoiding a lot of over
spray up into the sky area.Make sure you follow the contour of the hill,
mountain as we did in airbrush lesson two with the sphere. |
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Its time now to use the
top off the rattle can of paint to create your moon or sun. |
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Place your can top at the
top of the hills, mountains about in the middle of them. Apply a nice light
even layer of color around the can top that extends above the mountains, hills.
Do not follow the out line of the can top down into the mountains.
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There you have it our nice
round moon or sun which ever you prefer to call it. |
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Now we will make a free hand
shield to add some trees to out little painting. Draw three triangles one top
of another. The top one being the smallest and getting bigger as you draw the
ones below that. Use a craft knife to cut the out line of the trees out.
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Now as we did with our hill
or mountain free hand template hold the tree template at the bottom of the
hills, mountains add a little color. |
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Move your tree template
alittle to the right or left and apply some color. |
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Try and keep in mind not all
trees grown straight its fine to angel some of them by just turning the
template alittle. |
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Move the template down away
from the hills, mountains and use the amount of color you apply to add depth to
your painting as we did with the mountains, hills. The trees in the back ground
would be lighter color than the trees in the fore ground. |
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Now to complete our simple
painting we will go back and add a little more shading within or forest, hills,
mountains. |
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There you have it your
second completed painting. I hope you will share your completed work by posting
it on the forum Airbrush Technique.Com. I'm sure you can add a lot to this
simple painting and hope you have fun with it. |
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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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