When I posted my paintings to social media groups in the past, I was met with a hail of hostile remarks disparaging photorealism, claiming it wasn't real art, or that there was no point to creating it. They also accused me of posting photos and claiming that my posts are paintings, using words like "con man," or "fraudster." It seems that the...
When I created the Createx Illustration line, it wasn't always intended to be available to the public. It all began while I was evaluating Createx Colors' new Wicked Line while touring in Europe in 2011. Dennis Delorenzo, a chemical genius, had developed a new version which was more finely ground or sheared, than the previous Wicked line, and after some...
The CM-SB, the HP-SB, and the HP-SBS all share a common side feed feature. While the side feed has many advantages over the top feed airbrushes, there is one vulnerability that many are not aware of. This has to do with the small bend in the paint passage at the weld point of the side cup. . This is the point where...
You've probably heard the saying "there are no mistakes in art" popularized by many authors and painters, including Pablo Picasso. Hearing this phrase during a challenging art workshop might come as a soothing comment from your art instructor, but is it a valid commentary? Let's suppose it is true. If there are no mistakes in art, how do we judge...
1 The best productivity app on your phone is airplane mode 2 Make "No" your default. Whether its new work projects or social gatherings, saying "Yes" to non-priorities ruins your priorities. 3 Multitasking kills productivity. Do what you are doing. 4 Don't regret past decisions. You made the best choice at the time based on the knowledge you had then. Worrying...
Being an airbrush artist with a Fine Arts background has allowed me to walk in two different worlds, and afforded me the opportunity to observe from different perspectives the attitudes that prevail in both fine art world and the airbrush world. What may come as a surprise to many, is not so much a Fine Arts bias against the airbrush, (after all, most fine artists...
What is the most important thing to learn for an artist to be successful? Well, it depends on what you mean by success. For some it's financial security, for others, its acknowledgement from their peers, and still for others, its being able to paint what you want without excuses or failure. In observing the triumphs and failures in my colleagues'...
There's lots of chatter about how the use of stencils somehow gives an airbrush artist a great advantage, so much that some artists boast about not using stencils and airbrushing completely freehand. Stencils do offer an advantage, but not in the way most people think. Two types: Airbrush artists use two different types of stencils. One type is the proportional...
One of the biggest misconceptions about improving one's artistic skills is that all you need to do is practice. Many people tout the phrase "practice practice practice." However, I've come to the conclusion that artistic growth is not about doing the same exercise again and again until you become proficient, and artistic growth doesn't come from making 10,000 brush strokes. It comes...
There are lots of theories about how to reduce paint, with some artists promoting specific ratios, and others telling us to reduce paint to the consistency of milk. The problem is that ratios don't always work the same way for different types of paint and air pressure settings, and reducing to the consistency of milk isn't always appropriate either. In...
