Getting known in any industry will take time but you have to get your work out there in front of people. It is only after you have people looking and admiring your work will you finally start to become known.

There are several ways that you can get your airbrush art seen. Most of these ways will actually cost you nothing. The use of the internet has made it where you can show your airbrush art work to the world for free.

Free ways which give spotlight to your airbrush art:

Almost everyone on the internet has started using a blog. Well you should be no different. Get your self a free blog and start showcasing what you can do. Don’t just put up pictures of your work though. Make sure to actually talk to your audience.

Tell them about yourself and your passion for airbrush art. Show some pictures of your work and tell your audience how you created that design.

Talk about the paints that you use the types of airbrushes and so on and so forth. By discussing your techniques and sharing your insight you will show your audience that you are an artist that knows what they are doing.

Sometimes when trying to come up with designs your mind can go blank. You find yourself unable to come up with a design for a certain project.

While air brush art can give you endless possibilities it can also leave you stumped on a design project.

Finding inspiration though for your air brush art can come from many forms. The different places that you can look for inspiration can help you when you are stumped on what to do with a project.

Motivation for air brush art:

When you are feeling the creative block coming on then start looking around you. Anything can be a basis for inspiration, especially if you change your scenery and look around your new surroundings with open eyes.

Cooped up in a studio too long, then go out to the park and open your eyes to everything that you see. Derive inspiration from various sights around you and incorporate them into one great piece of art. See two kids on a seesaw at the park?

Turn those two kids into angels on a seesaw cloud in the sky. See a couple of kids playing ball? Then turn them into angels and the ball into a cloud. Now put all of this into one art design.

Pamela Shanteau is renowned airbrush artists whose airbrush talent streams over multiple styles and surfaces.

She is recognized among her peers and airbrush enthusiasts for your custom airbrush art. Her surfaces choices for her airbrush art include automotive and motorcycles and the body.

It is her airbrush art on the motorcycles that has placed her in the ranks with other famous custom airbrush artists.

Success on airbrush art by Pamela Shanteau:

Her airbrush art has been featured in the 2006 Iwata, the RM 2006 and the 2007 Paint calendars. The 2006 and also the 2007 Signature Harley Davidson calendars have featured Pamela Shanteau’s airbrush art. While these calendars show off a great deal of her talent they are by far not the only place where you can see this expert airbrush artist.

Magazines such as Hot Rod, Airbrush Action, AutoGraphics, Easy Rider, Mini-Truckin have featured Pamela Shanteau’s airbrush art in their publications. These of course are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to publications that have featured her work.

Pamela shanteau book on airbrushing:

Pamela Shanteau does not just create brilliant airbrush art, she also teaches others how to create the same high quality airbrush art that she herself creates. In February of 2002 she released the book, The Ultimate Airbrush Handbook.

Micro Air brushing is a valuable skill for all airbrush artists. Being able to do micro air brushing will allow for the artist to create a more realistic and more in depth detail on all small areas of their airbrush design.

It is in these small areas that a lot of artists miss the chance to really define the details because they are unable to fully create the detailed area.

Micro air brushing is needed to really capture the details of these small areas.

Micro air brushing is also a valuable skill for an airbrush artist if they airbrush small model cars.

By acquiring the skills needed to do micro air brushing the artist can capture more detail in their airbrush art on the model car.

Micro air brushing:

Imagine being able to create realistic eyes on a dragon you just air brushed onto the hood of a small model car? When a person looks strongly at your artwork on the hood of the model car they can really see the capacity of the skills that you have as an airbrush artist.

When you begin an airbrush art project, you will first need to prep the surface. The prep work that you do will be determined by what type of surface you will be airbrushing.

The prep work to the surface will ensure that the paint sticks to the surface and that nothing is interfering with the airbrushed design.

Prep airbrush surfaces:

For airbrushing t-shirts, sweatshirts, denim and other natural fibers you first need to wash the material. By washing the material you will remove any loose fibers.

Also washing the material will take care of any shrinking prior to placing your airbrush art design on to the material. So make sure that you have washed and fully dried your material before you begin.

Leather needs to be wiped down with rubbing alcohol prior to doing any airbrushing. This will remove the oil that is on the leather. The oil will prevent the paint from sticking to the surface.

Make sure that all the leather has been wiped down and that the alcohol has dried before beginning. When you begin you need to place a base coat of Opaque White first before you begin your actual airbrush design.

Once you have learned the basics with airbrushing, you can start to learn more advanced airbrushing techniques. These advanced airbrushing techniques will help you to render more imaginative art.

Videos can help you learn these advanced airbrushing techniques. You can also get videos that will help you learn how to render a specific design that will fit with the airbrush art you are trying to create.

One such specific design video is Creating Killer Dragons, produced by Airbrush Action Magazine with master airbrush artist Crossed Eyed. Crossed Eyed will teach you how to create airbrushed dragons by showing you all the essential airbrushing techniques involved in rendering all aspects of the dragon.

Variations in airbrushing techniques DVDs:

Killer Klown with Javier Soto will show you how to create airbrushed clowns. This video will go into how to create the popular psycho demented style of clowns. These style of clowns seem to very popular with custom paint jobs. So if you want to get in on how to create these clowns, then this video is for you.

Javier Soto will deal with the use of bright colors, textures, highlighting and the use of kandies in creating a brilliant looking psycho clown.

Some people are fully visual people. This means that they learn and comprehend better when they see how something is done versus reading about how to do it. While most magazines and books will offer some pictures this is not enough for a fully visual person.

So when some one is fully visual and they want to learn something the best thing they can do is watch videos that show how to do something. There are some great videos on the market that will show a beginner how to do airbrush art. These videos are created by expert airbrush artists that will show you exactly what airbrushing for beginners need.

Airbrushing for beginners:

Airbrush Action Introduction to Airbrush is a perfect video on Airbrushing for beginners. This video comes on DVD and will help you to learn about airbrush art. You will get 1 hour and 30 minutes of airbrushing techniques and principles on airbrushing for beginners that will apply to all types of airbrush art. The video features Air Brush Action’s Teacher of the Year for 1995, Debbie Eastlack.

Paasche a name brand in airbrushes and airbrush accessories offers up an exceptional video titled PAASCHE Airbrushing with the VL on airbrushing for beginners. This video is offered on DVD and runs about 30 minutes.

Air brush art is a popular form of painting various designs on various types of surfaces. Everything from skin, clothing, canvas and automobiles are being used to show fantastic works of art using airbrushing. Motorcycles and building murals are also a target for an artist to show off their creativity with airbrushing.

Airbrushing:

The history of airbrushing is just as fascinating as the creative designs that artists are using airbrushing for. Experts believe that a primitive form of airbrush art was used by ancient civilizations.

The method believed to be used in this primitive form of airbrush art was the use of a hollow bone in which to spray the paint out of by blowing through it.

While this is a very primitive method compared to modern day forms of airbrushing, it does still work. Take a look at children’s airbrush art kits that require the child to blow through one end of tube to create the airbrushed art. Now ancient forms of airbrush art have bled over to modern day children’s crafts.

History of airbrushing:

In 1893 the world seen a more modernized version of airbrushing when Charles Burdick patent the first airbrush device. This device would be used for retouching photographs until around the 1920.

When doing airbrush art there are different types of airbrushes that you can choose from. Depending on what you are actually creating will also determine what airbrush you need.

Once you understand the different options that are available and the benefits of each option you will be better able to determine airbrushes you need for which projects. For the paint you have an internal mix or an external mix.

Different airbrushes:

The internal mix is when the air and the paint both mix inside of the airbrush. This will create an atomized fine dot spray pattern. This makes the internal mix a good choice for fine detailed work in your airbrush art. The point at which they come together is in the head assembly.

The external mix is where the air and paint come together outside of the head assembly or the fluid assembly. These airbrushes create a large dot pattern. Larger airbrushes areas are better done with the external mix. Because of the larger dot pattern you are able to spray more areas in less time.

Airbrushes also come in single and dual action. This refers to how the airbrush functions. With single action only the air is controlled with the trigger.

A fascinating form of airbrushing is the airbrush tattoos. These airbrush tattoos can be applied to any part of the body and last longer than most temporary tattoos.

An airbrushed tattoo will last for 7 days unlike other temporary tattoo that start to come off when you are bathing. It takes time or baby oil to remove an airbrushed tattoo. Airbrush Tattoos look realistic compared to other temporary tattoos.

Positive aspects of airbrush tattoos:

Henna as temporary body art does last for awhile requiring time and lots of exposure to water to fade and disappear. Henna though takes a long time to hand paint onto the body. The bigger the artwork the longer it will take the artist to pain the henna design on.

Airbrush art goes on quickly thus saving lots of time compared to henna as well as airbrush art is waterproof. Unlike henna lots of exposure to water still will not fade your tattoo. Where it would take an artist 6 hours to pain on a large henna design the same artist could airbrush the design on in around 30 minutes.

This is a major amount of time saved for the artist as well as the recipient that must stay still during this process.