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BASIC
AIRBRUSH TECHNIQUES
PAINTING A
PRACTICAL GUIDE TO CREATIVE AIRBRUSHING
JUDY MARTIN
NORTH LIGHT
BOOKS CINCINNATI. OHIO
BRIGHTON
published in 1994 by HarperCollins Publishers
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London First published in the United States by North Light Books. F&W Publications. Inc. 1507 Dana Avenue. Cincinnati. -800-289-0963 Ohio 45207 |
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Contents NTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE
CHOOSING AN AIRBRUSH How
CHAPTER TWO
6 8
the airbrush works • Air sources
GETTING TO
KNOW YOUR AIRBRUSH
18
Basic technique • Freehand spraying • Graded tones and colours • Project
Animal sketches • Line and wash • The principles of
masking • Proiect Landscape
CHAPTER THREE
AIRBRUSH PAINTING
38
Cut and torn paper • Found objects and materials • Proiect Cloudy skies
stencils
• Proiect
Still life
• Masking
fluid
•
Project Flower garden
• Adhesive tapes and labels • Proiect Rose
• Masking
dome •
trellis
CHAPTER FOUR
• Hand-made
film
• Project Pavilion
Proiect Pineapple
SURFACE EFFECTS
76
Highlighting • Light and shadow • Texture and depth • Textured
and coloured grounds
CHAPTER FIVE
GRAPHIC AND 3-D PROJECTS
86
Graphic styling • Stencilled lampshade • Fabric painting • Cafe poster • Decorating plastics and ceramics • Colouring a model
CHAPTER SIX
CORRECTION AND RETOUCHING
08
Correcting with a patch • Handtinting photographs • Photomontage
CHAPTER SEVEN
PRACTICAL REFERENCE
8
Media and surfaces • Cleaning and maintenance • Troubleshooting
INDEX
26
INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION The airbrush was invented by a watercolourist, Charles Burdick, in
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893, as a tool for laying colour washes.
not well received by his fellow painters,
It
was
who disapproved
of the idea of a mechanical painting tool, but
its
potential
was
quickly discovered by artists practising in other fields.
The airbrush became a valuable tool
for
commercial
art forms,
photo-retouching and decorative crafts such as
ceramic and fabric painting.
It
became
specially associated with
graphic art and illustration, and has been represented
mainly
and
in
inspirational
that context in recent technical
books on airbrushing. The