Here is a close up picture of the back- Freehand airbrushing I add a smoky skull On the other side I airbrush the other
ground contrasted with the foreground; on the both sides using a very thin white skull, I use the same colors used for the
the technique of spraying very thin colors to build the skulls up slowly. The opaque background.
provides for a nice shading color effect. look of the skull picture is due to the flash
of the camera and is not so opaque in re-
ality.
With fine line tape and transfer paper I de- To keep in the same range of tone I use Because this panel will be hung on the
fine the external edges of the design. various tones of brown and a sponge to wall in a Harley shop as kind of advertis-
paint a dark pattern around the external ing for me, I chose to show that I’m able
part of the painting. To finish it and get a to do pin striping by adding some striping
nice effect under the light, I spray a very to the painting. Using a Mack 000 I pull a
thin coat of cooper pearls. cooper stripe on the frame edges. Lastly
I do some minor touch as needed on the
entire painting.
Here is a picture of the panel completed after being
cleared with 2 part clear, sanded with P1500 wet grit
paper, Trizact and then buffed with the 3M polishing sys-
tem.
Patrick Charuel lives in France and has been a contribut-
ing artist with Airbrush Technique Magazine sense the
very first issue, thank you Patrick. To see more of Pat-
rick’s art work please visit his web site:
www.p.charuel.free.fr
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