AIRBRUSH LESSON #3
Here in airbrush lesson number three we are going to ren- niques.
der a palm tree, island using the dagger strokes you have You will need: pad of news print, double action airbrush, com-
been practicing, water and an island using the shading tech-
pressor and color of your choice (black is what I use here).
To start we will render the two palm Now to the left of the first dagger stroke Now at the top of each of those dag-
trees. In the middle of your paper put let’s put another one. These will serve as ger strokes add small dagger stokes
a dagger stroke going from fat on the our palm tree trunks. At the bottom of going both right and left of the palm
bottom to thin at the top. Make the the palm tree you’ll be further away from tree trunk.. These will act as our palms
stroke 4 or 5 inches long. the painting surface than you will be at so place them randomly at the top of
the top of the palm tree. The motion is each dagger stroke.
sort of like and airplane coming in for a
landing.
At this point your painting should look
similar to mine above with the small
dagger strokes at the top of the palm Now at the bottom of the palm tree put a Now do the same going to the left
tree. Don’t over do it here keep your dagger stroke going from fat at the base airbrish a line which will be our island.
small dagger strokes nice and clean of the tree to thin away from the tree.
and sharp well defined top convey each This will serve as our ground or top of
small dagger stroke is a palm leaf. our Island.
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