C0y0te
Needle-chuck Ninja
Hello peeps!
I'm a newbie to airbrushing, keen to learn and full of questions.
My background is in fine art where I scrape a living as an oil painter. Using a hairy stick I paint very slowly and minutely on large aluminium panels. My last large scale painting took two years to complete. I like to think I've developed patience.
I've been practicing dots for 2 weeks and have now moved on to barbells/dumb bells. I'm hoping to get good enough with the airbrush to be able to block in large areas of my painting with it, establish values etc. before finishing off with a brush. People often think I use an airbrush because my paintings are so smooth. It's taken me some time to realise that maybe an airbrush can do the job quicker. So here I am on a journey...
I started a few weeks ago with an Aztek a4709 but had quite a lot of difficulty controlling the paint flow with the trigger at lower rates. After reading around I invested in an Iwata Eclipse and found this to be much better for me in terms of how it felt to hold and it's trigger action. I've been falling slowly in love with it since it came through my letterbox a week or so ago.
I'm fairly well versed in colour theory and such like, especially the Munsell system so feel free to ask me about that and I'll do my best to help.
My website: http://www.naivejohn.com/
I'm a newbie to airbrushing, keen to learn and full of questions.
My background is in fine art where I scrape a living as an oil painter. Using a hairy stick I paint very slowly and minutely on large aluminium panels. My last large scale painting took two years to complete. I like to think I've developed patience.
I've been practicing dots for 2 weeks and have now moved on to barbells/dumb bells. I'm hoping to get good enough with the airbrush to be able to block in large areas of my painting with it, establish values etc. before finishing off with a brush. People often think I use an airbrush because my paintings are so smooth. It's taken me some time to realise that maybe an airbrush can do the job quicker. So here I am on a journey...
I started a few weeks ago with an Aztek a4709 but had quite a lot of difficulty controlling the paint flow with the trigger at lower rates. After reading around I invested in an Iwata Eclipse and found this to be much better for me in terms of how it felt to hold and it's trigger action. I've been falling slowly in love with it since it came through my letterbox a week or so ago.
I'm fairly well versed in colour theory and such like, especially the Munsell system so feel free to ask me about that and I'll do my best to help.
My website: http://www.naivejohn.com/
