Scale Model Painting Workshops with Bryant Dunbar

Model Aircraft Airbrushing Workshop with Bryant Dunbar – Saturday March 21st, 11am to 3pmRegular price: $76.00Sale price: $75.00MAABS

Learn valuable model painting techniques from award winning model builder Bryant Dunbar!

In this comprehensive workshop sponsored by Grex Airbrush Company and Mission Models Premium Hobby Paints you’ll get some hands on experience and walk away with a painted aircraft.

The coarse will cover:

-Proper Airbrush Technique
-Hobby Paints Tutorial
-Paint Preparation
-Pre-Shading Panel Lines
-Single Color Camouflage Scheme
-Post Tinting
-Multi-Color Camouflage
Model Railroad Airbrushing with Bryant Sunday February 22nd 11am to 2pm

Learn valuable model painting techniques from award winning model builder Bryant Dunbar!

In this comprehensive workshop sponsored by Grex Airbrush Company and Mission Models Premium Hobby Paints you’ll get some hands on experience and walk away with a painted aircraft.

The coarse will cover:

-Proper Airbrush Technique
-Hobby Paints Tutorial
-Paint Preparation
-Weathering
-Post Tinting

New Needles from Harder Steenbeck!

New! Stronger, Better, Easier Needles installed in Harder Steenbeck airbrushes

The new V2 needles are made from a material 1/3 harder than previous needles.

The design has improved too with a double taper right where the paint breaks free from the needle. Making it optimal for detail work and better flow.

Plus! They also now have notches shaped on the back of the needle which indicate size, making it easier to change sizes.

Friday the 13th Halloween Art Show

Sideshow Gallery, Midwest Airbrush Supply and Revolution Brewery have put together an art show guaranteed to scare the hell out of you! Or, at least impress the hell out of you with some bad-ass artwork from some extremely talented airbrushers and other artists alike.

Feast your eyes on some ghastly nightmare clown portraits from Christian “Crispy” Pena,  peer into the twisted mind of airbrush wiz Ron “Brutal” Jordan or just have your final breathe taken away by the deeply disturbing and masterful ink renderings of gore mag master “Putrid” Matt Carr. Plus, get shocked and horrified by some dark-sided 3D custom airbrush projects by Jesse Lopez and Damon Rowley. And if that weren’t enough to lure you in, come see a creepy collection of art by airbrush icons Javier Soto and Steve Driscoll.

So why not test your luck this Friday The 13th and stop by for some libations and browse an incredible selection of original artworks and prints!

Where: Sideshow Gallery 2219 N Western Ave Chicago IL

When: Friday October 13th 7PM to 11PM

HR Giger

H.R. (Hans Ruedi) Giger may be the most famous artist to prolifically use an airbrush. The vast majority of his early paintings were done with thinned acrylic paints  sprayed through an airbrush. He was very creative in finding objects to use as stencils such as machine parts and templates that he would use in a repetitive manner to create his fantastic and often frightening bio-mechanical creatures and landscapes.

 

Man Ray

One of the pioneers in bringing airbrush into the world of fine art was an avant-garde artist by the name of Man Ray. Man Ray worked in a variety of materials and was a contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements. He loved the airbrush for its ability to produce an industrial like appearance with no brush strokes. Around 1919 he produced a series called “Aerographs” in which he used hand made stencils as well as household objects as stencils.

Seguidilla 1919

Early Airbrush Stigma

This amusing illustration for a paper advertisement is by William Addison Dwiggins. It pokes fun at airbrush artists of the time. It depicts of a weary artist, slouched in an armchair, using an airbrush to create a painting while a servant operates the hand-pump compressor and a monkey holds up a stencil for him. Many artists looked down their nose at those who used airbrushes and especially stencils. There was resistance to this new “machine” being intermingled into art and illustration. This stigma somewhat still exists today and most fine art schools still do not teach airbrushing.

The compressor depicted is actually somewhat realistic in that back then compressors for an airbrush were hand pump as were early vacuum cleaners.

 

“The New Ideas in Illustration” advertisement by S.D. Warren & Co. (Print, vol. V, no. 4, 1915). Illustration and lettering by W.A. Dwiggins (1914)

The complete airbrush apparatus with air pump and connections. Detail from The Manufacturer and Builder vol. XXII, no. 5 (May 1890), p. 98

Philip Castle

Philip Castle is British airbrush artists best known for creating the poster art for the Stanley Kubrick films A Clockwork Orange and Full Metal Jacket. He worked very closely with Kubrick on these projects and the extent of their collaboration shows, as the posters do a great job of capturing the essence of the films. He’s also known for designing some classic album covers for David Bowie, The Rolling Stones and many others. For more about his process check out this article.