You might recall I’m working on the artwork for my 81 year old next door neighbour’s custom trike…
My current job is the artwork on the panier box lids. Armed with my updated skills from Marissa’s workshop, I completed the first box which was a wolf scene and have started on the second box – a mountain lion. The whole trike has a Native American Indian feel to it, which is why I chose these two animals.
Here’s the step by step. Enjoy!
I had booked this workshop last year, Nov 2013 and had to wait until May 19th 2014. How excited was I when we finally arrived in May 🙂
Although I was getting to grips with my airbrush, I had lots of questions and lots of areas where I was convince my technique could be better.
As a qualified trainer, I know the value of workshops like these. Sometime even just the one little tip can make it all worthwhile and in this workshop I picked up so much..
Enough waffle – here’s the step by step…
Hope you enjoyed the step by step. The image is not quite completed, I will eventually get around to adding the very last details with watercolour pencils and maybe darken a couple of areas in the background.
I need to finish the trike paniers that I’m working on first, so hopefully you will see those finished in the next update.
J x
The question was “was I doing it right?”
So off to see what I could find on the internet about airbrushing technique.
My first port of call was Airbrushtutor.com. Mitch is as nutty as a fruit cake, but in the nicest possible way 🙂 He has some great downloadable files on the site to help beginners practice getting used to the control of an airbrush.
I quickly realised that my starter kit had done its job and I ought to move up to the next level of quality, so…
I moved up to a H & S Infinity CR+. The difference was amazing, everything worked for a start and my artwork immediately improved.
Meanwhile back at the trike, Barry (neighbour) asked me to do the artwork on the real fuel tank at the back of the trike.
For all of the work including this next part I have been using Createx water based auto paint.
Take a look at the next gallery to see how the real fuel tank turned out.
Hope you enjoyed that.
See you soon with the output from My Marissa Oosterlee workshop.
J x
So for years my first love has been pastels and graphite, but now I’ve found a new love – my airbrush!
I have used a cheapy old airbrush for airbrushing sugar flowers (of all things), but always fancied learning to use one for fine art.
It is strange how these things happen, but I’ve always wanted to do some custom work on a bike or car, but never had the bike or the car to do it on. One day just before Christmas I was taking some artwork an exhibition and my neighbour started chatting about his custom trike that he was building. (Not that it matters, but Barry, my neighbour, is 81 and still tinkering around with and riding his trike!)
The upshot of the conversation was that Barry wanted a North American Indian themed bike and I could design and paint the artwork for the faux fuel tank!
Both of us were very happy with this first adventure into custom bike artwork. Barry was so please that he asked me to paint the real fuel tank that sits on the back of the trike. In the meantime I had booked my Marissa Oosterlee airbrush course to learn how to use my airbrush properly…!
I’ll tell you how it went in the next post.