Airbrush Step by Step Magazine – 02/2009

Dance of jellyfish – Dennis Mathewson’s graceful underwater world
His homeland is his inspiration: the Hawaiian Dennis Mathewson likes to use the culture in his works,
Flora and fauna of its island world. With the jellyfish illustration on aluminium, he has once again succeeded in this in a fascinating way.

The Wisdom of the Owl – Airbrush Design on Leather by Stefanie Gronau
By candlelight, the owl guards books and the contents of the leather folder to which Stefanie Gronau brushed them.
The illustration-style motif blends perfectly with its leather base. The Step by Step explains, among other things,
special processing of this substrate.

Spaceship Construction
Create your own spaceships for your science fiction illustration
The Enterprise spacecraft was also launched before it could discover alien worlds
first sketched on paper and illustrated as conceptual art. Roger Hassler shows the way from the first idea to sketches
up to the finished spaceship illustration – in analogue and digital technology.

And besides:
You already know… Jörg Hofmann
In our new section we introduce you to interesting airbrush artists with a short portfolio and a sophisticated catalogue of questions.

Airbrush News
In the trade there is again a lot of useful things for the studio and bookcase.

ASBS Check
Many artists make the covenant for life with their color variety. Maybe try something new.
In Check: Auto-Borne and E’TAC

Reader’s Gallery
A colourful start to spring…

The mask effect
Did you know that airbrush is also working hard behind the scenes of film and television?
Special make-up artists create bizarre masks, false body parts and much more.

Expert tip: Realistic ageing of models
Railways are among the pioneers of model making. To turn the brand new model into a rusty-sooty-dirty classic car,
is a challenge for any model maker.

Events: The start of the airbrush year 2009
The year began with the airbrush show in Rosmalen, two exciting ASBS Master Classes and great results at the airbrush competition in Italy.
But spring also has a lot to offer…