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Review – Automotive Cheap Tricks & Special F/X II

Review – Automotive Cheap Tricks & Special F/X II

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 [...]

Review – Automotive Cheap Tricks & Special F/X II
Kick Ass Cover Art From Kick-Ass Albums

Kick Ass Cover Art From Kick-Ass Albums

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 [...]

Kick Ass Cover Art From Kick-Ass Albums
Download – Arai Motorcycle Hemet

Download – Arai Motorcycle Hemet

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 [...]

Download – Arai Motorcycle Hemet
Apple iTablet – Artist’s Delight or Bad Dream

Apple iTablet – Artist’s Delight or Bad Dream

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 [...]

Apple iTablet – Artist’s Delight or Bad Dream
Mr. Dist

Mr. Dist

Dist is based out of Sweeden, and has a distinct macabre style that is worth checking out http://mrdist.se/

Mr. Dist
Review – Automotive Cheap Tricks & Special F/X II

Review – Automotive Cheap Tricks & Special F/X II

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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Kick Ass Cover Art From Kick-Ass Albums

Kick Ass Cover Art From Kick-Ass Albums

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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Download – Arai Motorcycle Hemet

Download – Arai Motorcycle Hemet

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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Apple iTablet – Artist’s Delight or Bad Dream

Apple iTablet – Artist’s Delight or Bad Dream

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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Calgary Motorcycle Show

Calgary Motorcycle Show

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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How the Airbrush Magazines How they Stack Up

How the Airbrush Magazines How they Stack Up

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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Download – Troy Lee D2 Fullface

Download – Troy Lee D2 Fullface

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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Top Five Stencils fo Airbrush Artists

Top Five Stencils fo Airbrush Artists

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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The Evil Stencil Debate

The Evil Stencil Debate

15 December 2009

Stencils. If you use an airbrush you have seen stencils. You have probably used stencils. You have also probably heard people complain about the use of stencils, to the point that they say that it isn’t airbrushing. Is it? Or not. If I was an elitest I would say it most definately not, and that no artistic [...]

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Vector Freebie — Skull

Vector Freebie — Skull

13 December 2009

Just in case you needed a 3/4 mask for airbrushing. Click Here to download.

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