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Rob S
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Tá ag gach duine maidin
(Morning Everyone)
My name is Rob S and i am completely new to airbrushing. I have been wanting to give this ago for a long time now and decided to take the plunge.
I currently have 3 airbrushes, 2 cheap brushes, a .35 and a .5, Gravity feed and bottom feed, i also invested in a Iwata Eclispe bottom feed .5 and got the .35 tip and needle set as well.
I have been practicing a lot lately with trying to control the brushes and getting use to the different feels for them, more practice than actually painting, ha ha ha.
I have also been practicing with stencils and trying to get use to laying down shadows and adding depth and detail to the pieces, but think i may be using to thick a paint, i have tried watering down more and using transparent colours. Take this one for example, Yesterday i mixed 50/50 paint to reducer transparent white from auto-air and got a great flowing paint, was working great on the black background, when i was ready for the next colour, i mixed transparent black again to 50/50 with reducer, but found even with holding the brush back it was getting to dark to quick. Can anyone suggest a different method to this? As i was doing so well until i tried adding the black, also i found i was getting tip dry a lot and the paint was not flowing nicely with the black, i tried reducing the pressure down from about 38psi to just under 30psi and had no effect.
I am aiming towards being able to create a great piece of art that i can spray on my motor bike, but this will be a long way down the line as my art skills, or lack of should i say are very poor.
Any help, tips or tricks that anyone can suggest would be gratefully appreciated.
Rob S
(Morning Everyone)
My name is Rob S and i am completely new to airbrushing. I have been wanting to give this ago for a long time now and decided to take the plunge.
I currently have 3 airbrushes, 2 cheap brushes, a .35 and a .5, Gravity feed and bottom feed, i also invested in a Iwata Eclispe bottom feed .5 and got the .35 tip and needle set as well.
I have been practicing a lot lately with trying to control the brushes and getting use to the different feels for them, more practice than actually painting, ha ha ha.
I have also been practicing with stencils and trying to get use to laying down shadows and adding depth and detail to the pieces, but think i may be using to thick a paint, i have tried watering down more and using transparent colours. Take this one for example, Yesterday i mixed 50/50 paint to reducer transparent white from auto-air and got a great flowing paint, was working great on the black background, when i was ready for the next colour, i mixed transparent black again to 50/50 with reducer, but found even with holding the brush back it was getting to dark to quick. Can anyone suggest a different method to this? As i was doing so well until i tried adding the black, also i found i was getting tip dry a lot and the paint was not flowing nicely with the black, i tried reducing the pressure down from about 38psi to just under 30psi and had no effect.
I am aiming towards being able to create a great piece of art that i can spray on my motor bike, but this will be a long way down the line as my art skills, or lack of should i say are very poor.
Any help, tips or tricks that anyone can suggest would be gratefully appreciated.
Rob S