Hi beginner from N.I

Mal’s brush

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Hi guys,
I’m new to airbrushing but not necessarily paint as I’ve a small bodyshop. I’ve been chatting about trying airbrushing for the last 20yrs and have in the last month finally started
I did a 3 day beginners introduction course with Simon Murray and bought an Iwata hp bcs at the end of the 3 days and have been trying to figure it out and get at least a little practice everyday since.
 
Welcome to the forum Mal
It has a diverse range of members,
Bringing together some great solutions.
Technical, physical and execution.
 
welcome aboard,
if you have a small body shop then you can hopefully transfer the skills of the spray gun to the airbrush with relative ease.
Any new tool has a learning curve.
What is your end goal for the airbrush? doing small touch ups, doing small graphics or nothing vehicle related... artworks/tshirts etc ?
Did you get an airbrush specific line of paint or are you just using what you have at the shop?
 
Thanks, Yeah it’s a different discipline with the finger trigger control over a normal spraygun I’ve been eyeing up those trigger airbrushes like a spraygun and wondering how they would be.
In all honesty it’s always been just your general airbrush things on automotive, signs and artwork etc scenes and designs etc but over the past month and seeing what people are at I’ve come to aim on up higher to portraits and realism not something I had ever thought on before in fact I would have dismissed as not my thing maybe it’s age catching up lol
Not sure I’ll get there but might aswell aim for the moon and see how close I get lol

I bought some Createx wicked paint and couple of candy 2.0 when I was there although I had a waterbase scheme taken out as I wasn’t getting on with it and have a load of tinter sitting from it so I’ve been using that to practice so far no point wasting Createx when I have it sitting costing money thought it will do for dots, lines, shading , squiggles and doodles etc etc
My 7 year old son has discovered that can paint t shirts and shoes so he’s keen to get some one offs done also
 
Thanks, Yeah it’s a different discipline with the finger trigger control over a normal spraygun I’ve been eyeing up those trigger airbrushes like a spraygun and wondering how they would be.
In all honesty it’s always been just your general airbrush things on automotive, signs and artwork etc scenes and designs etc but over the past month and seeing what people are at I’ve come to aim on up higher to portraits and realism not something I had ever thought on before in fact I would have dismissed as not my thing maybe it’s age catching up lol
Not sure I’ll get there but might aswell aim for the moon and see how close I get lol

I bought some Createx wicked paint and couple of candy 2.0 when I was there although I had a waterbase scheme taken out as I wasn’t getting on with it and have a load of tinter sitting from it so I’ve been using that to practice so far no point wasting Createx when I have it sitting costing money thought it will do for dots, lines, shading , squiggles and doodles etc etc
My 7 year old son has discovered that can paint t shirts and shoes so he’s keen to get some one offs done also
Go for it Mal
And give the double action airbrush a fair go as it dose offer some real advantages when painting over pistol triggers.
I make fishing lures as a sideline and to advertise my brand I paint a few "T" shirts as well. With a DeBeer 1K and 2K auto paint rack.
I worried painting 400 lures at time would bore the hell out of me. Turned out to be the best part, very therapeutic.
I am nowhere near an artist.
But I have been welcomed, helped, advised, educated and laugh at and with, But never ridiculed.
 
Welcome.
Not to knock Wicked. I tried to get back into airbrushing with the Wicked line, But in my experience, it was so much easier to start again after being away for almost 15yrs, using createx illustration. It cut down so much time fighting my paint. Its already reduced to the point it sprays right out of the bottle. So you spend more time practicing than getting a good ratio thin enough to spray.
 
Welcome.
Not to knock Wicked. I tried to get back into airbrushing with the Wicked line, But in my experience, it was so much easier to start again after being away for almost 15yrs, using createx illustration. It cut down so much time fighting my paint. Its already reduced to the point it sprays right out of the bottle. So you spend more time practicing than getting a good ratio thin enough to spray.

Thanks for the tip I’ll look into getting some to try out
 
Welcome Mail! I’d love to do a course with Simon at some point. Do you have any photos of what you got done at the course?


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Welcome Mail! I’d love to do a course with Simon at some point. Do you have any photos of what you got done at the course?


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Thanks. It was a great 3days I went on the beginners airbrush and custom paint course for those that had never used an airbrush before. We done obviously basic’s of the airbrush control and daggers etc then onto some old school flames which show you fine line and blending and on to some stencils and making your own etc plus lots of info and demos along the way highly recommend it..
My plan now is to practice the basics of control, blending, lines, shadowing etc and then I’ll have a solid base for learning more when I do another course later in the year..
I’m flat out with work at the minute and it’s tight getting time to practice but I’m squeezing half hour/ hour here and there also struggling perhaps aimless in what to do beside the basics lol might keep doing an eye with the odd skull or something maybe a space scene
 
Sounds like a great intro!
I’d like to do the Mural on Steel course when I eventually get round to it. If you have any photos from the course feel free to post them up.


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Yeah I’m gonna do the mural on steel and the introduction to portraits if runs them at end of year so as hopefully I’ll have got reasonable control by then and be able to get the most out of them..
 
I’ll try later with couple pics it keeps saying too big I haven’t uploaded a pic to a forum in years and have forgotten how
There are a few free photo sizing apps depending what device you’re trying to upload from.


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