MONEY TO BURN

By Dan Bizzaro

Dan Bizzaro started airbrushing commercially in 1974 restor- ing old photographs. This led to a thirty-year career working with all the major advertising agencies for clients like Revlon, L’Oreal, Coach, Nine West and Joe Camel for R.J. Reynolds. His celebrity roster includes Shania Twain, Cindy Crawford, Melanie Griffith and Halle Berry to name a few. In 1994 he traded his airbrush for a computer stylus and tablet and made the move to digital. On a trip to a car and motorcycle show with his son’s he took notice of airbrush art on both bikes and cars and thought, “Hey I could do that.” He once again picked up the trusty airbrush after doing some research and finding new

paints that weren’t as toxic as lacquer or enamels. “Merging traditional art with digital has opened new avenues for me. Now I can design on the computer, print it and use it as masks to airbrush onto a motorcycle.” The new paints have also opened up other area to explore creatively. “Colors can change and shimmer right before your eyes. There are an abundance of tools at your fingertips, and using them creatively opens new possibilities for the artist.” E-Mail dbizz38329@aol.com You can check out more of Dan’s work in the gallery at airbrushtechnique.com

A customer wanted his bike painted entirely with one thou- sand dollar bills, not one of your everyday requests but interesting. Thinking how the heck am I going to do that I came up with this technique using water slide decal pa- per.

I found a picture of the thousand-dollar bill on-line and saved it to my computer from there I opened it in Photoshop.

In Photoshop mask out all the lighter areas of the bill, sharpen it, add some flames and assemble it to fit 8 x 10 since that is the size of the decal pa- per. When assembling the images in Photoshop keep in mind that they have to butt up next to each other. Print the images on the clear wa- terslide decal paper and cut out the extra paper. Make extra decals be- cause some will get damaged when you transfer them onto the tank.

Airbrush the tank a light green color close to the color of money keeping it just a shade lighter as later you will be going back over it with a darker green. I used Createx Auto Air for my project for its ease of use. Using In- tercoat Clear I applied three coats to the decals and one to the base color of the tank. Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32