Looking at airbrush artists from all over the world, you find that love for detail, diligents and self-challenging attitude with all of them. Let’s take Colombian Rafa Fonseca: He painted such a lovely and gentle portrait of his grandfather. Spanish artist Hugo Maciel put a lot of effort in creating an effectful swarm of bats, just to enhance the Joker portrait on a shirt. Last but not least, the European „queen of photorealism“, Marissa Oosterlee, shows us in the interview how airbrush art can still be highly in demand even for TV promotion purposes, if you just put that much portion of talent and care into your artwork like she does. 

So the message is: Keep it going. Believe in yourself. Accept critics, take it as an advice and learn from the pros to improve your own abilities. But you may also accept admiration. Be proud of what you are capable of. Because in any case, it’s so much more than just ordinary people can do!

Have fun with this new issue and with learning, admiring and trying!

The ASBS Team

 

Contents

Step by Steps 

Hidden Underwater World – Illustration

German artist Wolfgang Gerstemeier had to deal with a couple of difficulties when preparing and painting his Koi illustration, starting with taking pictures of swimming fishes.

Whiskey – Illustration

It took 50 photos of a Whiskey bottle for German artist Andreas Werner until the right template was found. He just needed a real life image to master the colors and glass reflections.

The Joker – T-Shirt Painting

The Spanish artist Hugo Macielis painting another legendary movie character on a sweat shirt: The evil grining Joker, the supervillain from the Batman movies.

El Colombiano – Portrait

The Columbian artist Rafa Fonseca is showing the process of painting his beautifully smiling grandfather with lots of realistic details.

Interview
Parfum – A TV commission for Marissa Oosterlee

The famous Dutch airbrush artist Marissa Oosterlee was literally taken off her holidays in Italy in order to paint the movie poster for a huge German TV production in only 3 days.

Fantastic Beasts – The magical airbrushing and model construction art of Pia Achtenhagen

Pia Achtenhagen from Berlin, Germany, builds amazin fantasy animal models. It’s the airbrush finish that makes her models coming to life.

Making-of – Steampunk Camaro
Automotive Painting by Andras Bathory

This is what comes out if you give the artistic green light to Hungary born artist Andras Bathory to paint your car with your favorite game hero..

Classics

Airbrush News

11 pages of product reviews 

Readers’ gallery

Sweet pets

Scene/Events

Airbrush, Bodypainting and Kustom Kulture events throughout Europe

Shopping Guide

These are your sources of supplies

Preview

From European portraiture to Indonesian automotive painting.