Airbrush Help For Beginners
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Basic Airbrush Lesson: Dots, Lines, Daggers and More
Feb 11th
For this airbrush lesson all you need is:
- your airbrush equipment
- paint in any transparent color you choose
- scrap paper
This airbrush lesson is not about producing a masterpiece but instead getting to know how your airbrush works and what you can do with it.
Don’t get hung up here – you don’t have to master these prior to moving on to the projects.
I recommend spending 5 to 10 minutes doing these exercises before you start painting each day. Fill a page with practice and move on…
OK… speech over.
Scroll down when you’re ready.
Warm UpGettin’ loose! That’s what this is More >
Basic Airbrush Lesson:Three Color, Color Wheel
Feb 11th
For this airbrush lesson I’ll show you how to create the color wheel shown above using only three colors: Red, Blue and Yellow.
The tools you will need for this lesson are:
- Your airbrush equipment
- Red transparent paint
- Blue transparent paint
- Yellow transparent paint
- Something round (to trace a circle)
- White Paper
- Pencil
- Masking film / Frisket (stick back transparent film)
- Exacto knife
The skill we will be learning in this airbrush lesson is:
- Color Theory!!!
Ahem… I have to rant for just one second about color theory before we begin… knowing your colors and how to mix them is the single most important part of airbrushing that few bother to More >
Basic Airbrush Lesson: Six Color, Color Wheel
Feb 11th
In this airbrush lesson, I’ll show you step-by-step how to make the color wheel shown above using six colors.
or this airbrush lesson you will need the following:
- your airbrush equipment
- something round to trace a circle (bigger is better for this exercise
- a pencil
- exacto knife
- fisket (sticky back transparent film)
- red transparent paint
- blue transparent paint
- yellow transparent paint
- purple (or violet) transparent paint
- orange transparent paint
- green transparent paint
- white paper
This particular lesson is going to be pretty prescriptive … and it’s on purpose… it took me SIX tries to get the colors to over lap properly!! So follow the steps and remember to have fun!!
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Basic Airbrush Lesson: Edges (Part One)
Feb 11th
For this airbrush lesson you’ll need the following equipment:
- your airbrush equipment
- transparent paint in any color
- exacto knife
- pencil
- scrap white paper
- small piece of cardstock (any scrap card material will do)
- six pennies
The skill we will be focusing on is – you guessed it – edges!
Why Edges?
Beginners typically choose one of two paths when they first start painting… either they try to paint everything free-hand, or they try to use masks for everything.
With free-hand work the results tend to be fuzzy and loose with no crispness.
With masks, all the edges are crisp and the piece looks sort of like a jig-saw More >
Basic Airbrush Lesson: Edges (Part Two)
Feb 11th
For this airbrush lesson you’ll need the following:
- your airbrush equipment
- transparent paint in any dark color
- a piece of cardstock (any stiff card will do)
- white scrap paper
- a handful of pennies
For this basic lesson we’ll be learning about edges…again.
This lesson just re-enforces what we learned in
Scroll down when you are ready to begin!
Step 1Gather all your materials (if you haven’t already).
Step 2Place your piece of cardstock (your “shield”) onto your white paper and hold it down firmly. Spray the edge as shown below.
Step 3Now remove the shield and examine the edge. See More >
