Airbrush Technique Issue 23 - (Page 10) Time for some flames. First, take orange 1Shot and create the flame design then add red detailing across the bottom. Using a dry brush technique, remove all the wet paint off your brush, lightly re-pallet the red with no reducer and use gentle strokes upward to fade the red. Lastly, finish the top of the flames with a bit of chrome yellow and you’ve created fire! Here we are making short dry strokes with black and white to give the wood a textured look Halfway Were ready to add some flowers and a bit of airbrushed fades, after these steps this piece is really going to jump! Now its time for some Hawaiian flowers. Take a stabilo pencil and lightly draw out a flower on each side. Then take a detail brush with salmon pink and again just color in the lines. After the salmon pink is on, take a few drops of magenta and add it to the pink to create a deeper shade. Begin adding more detail to the flowers. Grab some bright red and fill in the berries, add a few strokes on the flowers as well. For the shading I use an Iwata HP-CS airbrush and some light brown 1shot. Thinned out 1:4 (one part paint to four parts reducer ) Blow in the shades to add some realism to the tiki and the eyeball. Anywhere you want to shade with any color at this point is up to you. Shading makes it real! Now just to add a touch of striping.My favorite brush is a 00 Mack blue Ferrell, trimmed just a bit at the tip. A little bit of bright red, some stripes and we are finished!
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