20 February 2010
Word of Wheels rolled into town, and for me it meant that I was on the way to the Stampede grounds to check out what it had to offer. I wasn’t there to get an autograph form the Fonz, or meet Rich Franklin, but rather check out what was going on in the paint side [...]
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12 February 2010
I had to post this video when I saw it, a while back I posted a video that I had seen on MAria Brophy’s blog “If Clients Only Know How they Looked…” It was a funny look at how clients can be. When I saw this video I had to post it, essentially it’s the flipside, [...]
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04 February 2010
Craig Fraser’s Automotive Cheap Tricks & Special F/X II is the follow up to his first airbrush book Automotive Cheap Tricks and Special F/X. It is hard to believe that it has been ten years since the original book. The book boasts to be, “is the most complete how-to book on automotive custom painting and [...]
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21 January 2010
I have always loved album art, especially the artwork that was on the vinyl that I used to buy as teen. Sometimes I would buy an album, just for the artwork. While today I have found with digital downloads, that album art has lost some of it’s impact due to it’s microscopic sizing in my [...]
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17 January 2010
Even though this is in the vector area, this is just a jpeg (just so you are all aware). But it is good to have these for clients, to either quickly sketch your ideas down during a consultation, or even to let a client have so that they can sketch out their own ideas as [...]
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14 January 2010
Well with San Francisco a couple weeks anticipation for the announcement of the iTablet from Apple builds. It is believed that will unveil it’s new table device on January 26th, or January 27th. The general belief is that the iTablet will be released in March. Now for me this has actually put off my purchase of [...]
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11 January 2010
Every year the Calgary Motorcycle show rolls into town, and as much as I love bikes, I always debate if I should go or not. I always think it will be the same thing, local dealers blowing out previous year stock, the manufacturers showing off the latest models, and the wild card as always the [...]
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04 January 2010
Like any other trade, there are trade magazines. Airbrushing is no exception to this. So we decided to take a look at three publications that as an artist you may have taken a sneak peak at while at the newsstand, and naturally we are going to give you the goods on them all. First off Airbrush [...]
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30 December 2009
Even though this is in the vector area, this is just a jpeg (just so you are all aware). But it is good to have these for clients, to either quickly sketch your ideas down during a consultation, or even to let a client have so that they can sketch out their own ideas as [...]
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18 December 2009
Stencils, are a great tool in the arsenal of airbrush artists. But with so many stencils out there, where is your money best spent, so that you don’t buy something that will send the rest of eternity in a drawer? Pain Inc. gives you our top five stencils. #5. True Fire by Mike Lavallee – Manufactured [...]
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