Now remove the pedals labeled B as pictured above. Now what I call an under painting. Because when sprayed thru
mist in some violet stay about two inches from the Bristol an airbrush paint is very transparent this technique works
board; half on the Frisket and half on the Frisket film. Now very well. You can actually airbrush an entire complex design
remove the pedals labeled C from the flower and apply the in just shades of black and white and apply color over it to
violet as we did with A and B. What we are doing is painting complete your painting.
This time we will mist in violet following the center of the circle is really the round center of a flower we will use our
circle; half on the Frisket and half on the Bristol board. This violet to give the impression its round and has depth. Just
will serve to act as a shadow on the pedals from the center as you did in lesson #2 with the sphere apply your color in
part of the flower. Next remove the Frisket covering the very light layers following the shape of the sphere.
center part of the flower. Now to give the illusion our flat
Now changing color apply a thin layer of red over the violet you just airbrushed in
the center of the flower. Had we applied the yellow first and than the red the red
would appear on the yellow where as the yellow we apply to the pedals will not ap-
pear on the red. The beauty of using an airbrush is the ability to apply transparent
colors and blend colors together right on the painting surface. Seldom will you
mix colors in a cup but rather blend colors together to come up with your desired
color right on your painting surface. As you’ll notice even colors that say Opaque
on the bottle spray pretty much as transparent colors. This is because as the
paint atomizes and hits the painting surface it does so as hundreds, thousands
of color dots leaving some of the surface color to show thru.
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