"Airbrush a Star"

By Don Johnson
Airhead Airbrush.Com, Inc
www.airbrushartistmagazine.com
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How simple can you get you ask? Well before you can create that great masterpiece, paint the hottest bike on the planet or the meanest low rider on earth you have to master these very basic airbrushing skills.

I’ve had several requests for a airbrush how to article along these lines, airbrushing stars so here is a short version I hope you find helpful.

What I used to put this article together: newsprint, Golden Airbrush Colors, easel, double action airbrush, Printer paper.

For this how to I used a double action airbrush. Master Airbrush G44 which I found to work great and is the one of the best enter level airbrushes I’ve used.

We’ll start out with what we’ll call a t-shirt star, as this technique for creating stars is very popular for t-shirt designs but can be used in on verity of other surfaces also. This technique will test if you’ve been practicing the dagger strokes as outlined in Airbrush Lesson #1 on this site.

Step #1) Make a dragger stoke up your painting surface, mine is about 4 inches long. Please keep in mind thru this entire article I’m using newsprint which is not a white surface so the colors will not be that bright.

Step #2) Now airbrush dagger strokes going down and to the left and right as pictured above.

Step #3) Airbrush four more dagger strokes, one between each of the dagger strokes you added in step 2.

Step #4) Now backing your airbrush back away from your painting surface several inches airbrush a circle around the star as pictured above. Moving your airbrush back in closer to the painting surface airbrush dots as pictured above.

Step #5) Now airbrush some white highlights as pictured above and you have just created your first t-shirt design star. Change the colors, add more dagger strokes, vary the length of the dagger strokes the possibilities are endless with this so have some fun. Post your results on the t-shirt forum on airbrushtechnique.com I’d love to check them out.

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