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It's been about a year since I last picked up the airbrush, I was asked to do this portrait for a woman whose dog passed away. I am pretty happy with the result
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-------------------- Neil White Sign Magic Melton, VIC Australia whitey@primus.com.au Posts: 277 | From: australia | Registered: Dec 1999
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Looks like my old Panda... makes me a little sad.
Beautiful though - I wish I had that kind of talent!
-------------------- Janet Bakewell One Sun Grafiks Inc. Slave Lake, AB Canada www.onesungrafiks.com Posts: 128 | From: Slave Lake, AB Canada | Registered: Apr 1999
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What paints did you use? How long did it take you?
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Gees Neil, what would it look like if you hadn't set the airbrush down for two years! That looks life-like to me.
Great job for a part-timer.
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Thanks for the comments. Paints I used are called Airbrush Ink, a water based product made in Aust. I think the painting took 5-6 hours, I just did a little each day when I had time.
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-------------------- Neil White Sign Magic Melton, VIC Australia whitey@primus.com.au Posts: 277 | From: australia | Registered: Dec 1999
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I find it completely mind boggeling how great that fur looks. I have never been able to get my head around how to make my airbrush do that. How fine of an airbrush?
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"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull Posts: 7014 | From: Highgrove via Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Registered: Dec 2002
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Thanks again for the positive comments. I use an Iwata eclipse. Yes Ian hair is done one at a time, but once you get going it doesn't take long. I learnt the technique for the hair from a mate who teaches airbrushing ( http://airbrushventuri.com.au/ ) you use a combination of opaque and transparent inks to create the depth.
Neil
-------------------- Neil White Sign Magic Melton, VIC Australia whitey@primus.com.au Posts: 277 | From: australia | Registered: Dec 1999
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That is absolutely stunning hair. PLEASE do a sort of show and tell on here for us!!! In the next 2 weeks or so I'll be starting on a wolf painting and I would really love to learn that technique. I took the one day course from Jurek and we did the tiger and it was awesome but it was a quickie compared to your dog's fur. I'm using the Iwatta Custom Micron now and I love it. I bought my son one of the Millenium's but I haven't used it yet. I took two three day classes from Dru Blair www.drublair.com and learned a tremendous amount. I can't go to Austrailia for the Airbrush Venturi classes but I sure wish I could.
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