Airbrush tip 1
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Sort Desciption: Airbrush tip 1 Article by Daniel Power © Copyright Daniel Power 2004 - present Here I am going to offer you a VERY handy hint I use in most automotive airbrush work I do.
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Airbrush tip 1
Article by Daniel Power
© Copyright Daniel Power
2004 - present
Here I am going to offer you a VERY handy hint I use in most automotive
airbrush work I do. This hint may seem very obvious, as it is a common sense
idea and common sense ideas often seem very obvious. The question is
though;
Are you doing it?
The tip is quite simply this. When you are working on an airbrush job,
whether its to be the whole car or just one panel youre airbrushing, order a
quantity of paint from the base colour of the car or bike youre
painting! At the minute you might be thinking "what! Is that it?"
The thing is, it makes a BIG difference to your work and your business in a lot
of little ways. If youre doing it already; FANTASTIC, that is great to hear. If
youre not; you should be! This is a very simple thing but the thing youll find
is that the things that will lift your work up level after level is a series of very
simple things .
This tip is a great thing to do for a couple of reasons.
Added value 1: Very importantly it allows you to blend your artwork back
into the base colour of the car. This may only be to clean up an edge, or to fade
a whole image into the panel. It may just be to fade a small area out. Whatever
it is, it will allow you to do it smoothly, quickly (because you know its the
exact right colour), and importantly, CLEANLY.
Added Value 2: It allows you to build your paint arsenal. By ordering 500ml
(approx. 16.9 oz) of your base colour (which is usually the minimum for a
custom order and what you would order if you were airbrushing a
single panel) you will end up with a significant portion of that colour left. Now
this will not by any means be enough to spray a whole car, but any airbrush
artist will tell you, a little paint can go a long way. You might have enough to
base a set of motorbike tins, or base a helmet. Youd have more than enough to
use the colour for a portion of a graphi ...
