Making it as an Airbrushist. How To Airbrush - airbrush lesson index page. T-Shirts. Learning to airbrush t shirts takes lots and lots of practice…. and all that practice can mean a lot of money spent on buying shirts to practice on. Below are a number of money saving strategies that may save your wallet…. You can always practice on paper It is probably a good idea to practice on paper alone until you get the basics figured out and then move to the actual t-shirt material. It is important though to make sure that the paper you practice on has some of the same properties that t-shirt material does. The big difference you are going to find between paper and cloth is that two materials absorb paint much differently.
The cheapest soft paper I’ve come across is newsprint. I like to buy the newsprint that is coil or glue bound with a solid cardboard back. This is nice because at the end of the day, all of your practice designs are in one nice neat book rather than scattered all over the floor or rolled up in a corner. Paper Towel is Perfect Free Promotional T-Shirts Fabric Stores. Premium Airbrush Stencils & Templates. Mozilla Firefox. How to Paint With a Compressed Air Sprayer. Steps Method 1 of 4: Preliminary Steps 1Select your paint and thinner. Oil based enamels are most easily used with a compressed air sprayer, but acrylics and latex paints can also be sprayed. Adding a suitable thinner will allow more viscous paint to flow freely through the siphon tube, metering valve (fluid) assembly, and nozzle. 5Prime the surface if necessary. Method 2 of 4: Prep the Compressor 1Turn on the air compressor. 7Empty the spray cup of any remaining thinner.
Method 3 of 4: Paint 1Mix enough paint to do your project. 8Allow the paint to dry, then re coat if desired. Method 4 of 4: Clean Up 1Pour out the unused paint. 4Remove all masking tape and paper from your work area. Tips Paint either horizontally or vertically, but try not to do both on one project, as there may be a slight texturing of the surface that may have a different appearance when you look from various angles.Read the instruction or operator's manual for your sprayer. Ad Warnings. Articles • Mike Lavallee BoneHeadz How-To Article • Artool • Freehand Templates. By Mike Lavallee Have you ever had to paint skulls but just couldn’t quite get them to look right?
Here’s the solution to this problem: My new Signature Series Freehand® Airbrush Templates from Artool Products Co., BoneHeadz and HotHeadz—plus a few essential techniques to create awesome skulls! I’ve seen people use many skull templates before, and for the most part, they’re not used correctly or many airbrushers will not achieve the results they’re after. I’ve even seen where people have just laid the template down and sprayed around them and called their project done…NOT! I’ll show you in this demo the way I use my new Artool BoneHeadz Airbrush Templates to achieve a realistic pile of human skulls on a motorcycle fender.
BTW these same techniques work just as well with the Artool lineup of the Craig Fraser designed Skullmasters. Hey, you can never have enough kewl skulls! This kustom job I was painting required many skulls painted in a dark gloomy mood—all in greens. P.S.