Airbrush Painting: Advanced Techniques - Murals, Portraits, Tools, Techniques, more

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Taking your basic airbrush paining skills to the next level will move your artwork from the ordinary to the extraordinary.

The airbrush artist with the skills to create complicated murals, natural-looking surfaces, complex mechanical devices, and fantastic creatures will stand out at any show.

JoAnn Bortles, award-winning artist and author, takes the basic skills presented in her earlier book, How to Master Airbrush Painting Techniques, and adds extra layers of complexity and fine detail.

Through her examples, learn how to paint natural surfaces like wood grains, feathers, scales, grasslands, and more. Learn the fine details of painting realistic faces, hands, feet, and other features.

Paint cars, motorcycles, planes, and more with intricate mechanical detail. Add new effects to your nature paintings and other murals. Bortles explains the challenges and mistakes you'll encounter and how the professionals make it look easy.

Whether your medium is motorcycles, cars, or T-shirts, Airbrush Painting: Advanced Techniques will take your skills to the expert realm.

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Designing a Mural Background
• Airbrushing a Sunset Background
• Creating a Soft Surface and Working with Stencils
• Airbrushing Feathery Surfaces
• Airbrushing Woodgrain
• Airbrushing Mechanical Things
• Vehicles and Perspective: Airbrushing an Airplane
• The Picky Details: Painting Hands
• Hail to the Chief, Part 1
• Hail to the Chief, Part 2
• Fixing a Face
• Index

About the Author:

JoAnn Bortles is a nationally recognized and award-winning custom painter. Her artwork has been featured in dozens of magazines, and she has written five books on custom painting techniques, including How to Master Airbrush Painting Techniques. JoAnn lives and works in Waxhaw, North Carolina, running her own custom painting shop, Crazy Horse Painting.