Lowrider Designs Course
No airbrush experience necessary, but student must be a certified painter.
Students attending the Lowrider Designs course will learn:
- Proper techniques for spraying Vibrance Collection® custom finishes and candy paints using the Radiance® II system over Ditzler® Big Flake™ bold metal flake colors
- Proper techniques for applying metal flake
- Color composition using various combinations
- Design layout and taping techniques
- Tape shading, fading and blending candy colors
- Use clearcoats to fill paint edges and metal flake
Course is available in Envirobase® High Performance waterborne basecoat.
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Custom Graphics Course
No airbrush experience necessary, but student must be a certified painter.
Students attending the Custom Graphics course will learn:
- Use of PPG Deltron® refinish system and Vibrance Collection® custom paint finishes
- Checkered patterns
- Graphic stripes
- Overlapping
- Shadowing
- Tape shading
- Blending and fading colors
- Granite techniques
- 3-D effects
- Use of different types of spray guns
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Custom Flames Design Course
No airbrush experience necessary, but student must be a certified painter.
Students attending the Custom Flames Design course will learn:
- Use of PPG Deltron® refinish system and Vibrance Collection® custom paint finishes
- Design and layout of flames
- Classic and tribal designs
- Overlapping and shadowing
- Ghost flames
- Blending and fading color
- Use of pre-cut templates and different types of spray guns
- Use of Transferite and Gerber mask
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Airbrushing the Human Skull Advanced Airbrush Course
Students must attend the Custom Airbrush Techniques course before attending any Advanced Airbrush courses.
Students attending the Human Skull course will learn:
- How to make a template using paper and a copy of a Human Skull
- Proper freehand techniques to add detail and shading
- Proper use of color and technique when rendering over a White and Black background
- Black and white base coat will be used along with colors from the Vibrance Collection® custom finishes.
Gravity-feed airbrushes will be provided for student’s use during class. If desired, students may bring their own gravity feed airbrush.
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Airbrushing the American Flag and Eagle Advanced Airbrush Course
Students must attend the Custom Airbrush Techniques course before attending any Advanced Airbrush courses.
Students will learn proper techniques to create a waving flag with an eagle in the foreground using colors from the Vibrance Collection® custom finishes.
Gravity-feed airbrushes will be provided for student’s use during class. If desired, students may bring their own gravity feed airbrush.
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Airbrushing Real Fire Advanced Airbrush Course
Students must attend the Custom Airbrush Techniques course before attending any Advanced Airbrush courses.
Students attending the Real Fire course will learn:
- Proper techniques and colors to create lifelike flames using Vibrance Collection® custom finishes
- Create fire using yellow, orange, and red colors as well as blue
- Use of templates and freehand airbrush strokes to create their version of real fire
Gravity-feed airbrushes will be provided for student’s use during class. If desired, students may bring their own gravity feed airbrush.
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Basic Airbrushing
No airbrush experience necessary.
Learn how to use an airbrush. Basic course includes the following topics:
- Types of airbrushes and how they work
- Air supply, air pressure, paint reduction, cleaning and troubleshooting
- Techniques for holding the air brush and tips for ease of use
- Practice exercises on paper including: basic strokes, dagger strokes, lines, dots, circles, shading, and more
- Techniques to create a beach mural, skulls, eagles, flying eyeball, and other custom images
Gravity-feed airbrushes will be provided for student’s use during class. If desired, students may bring their own gravity feed airbrush.
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Custom Airbrushing Techniques
Airbrush experience required, or must have completed Basic Airbrushing course.
Using gravity feed airbrushes to create 8 projects and learn:
- Proper use of stencils and templates
- To use pre-cut designs with Paint Mask
- Masking techniques with Paint Mask, Transfer Paper and Masking Tape
- Art of cutting on masking tape using razor blades and cutting tools
- Proper distance when air brushing, settings for close detail work and distant shading
- Airbrush special effects including: real fire effects, chrome, diamond place and rivets, stone effects, wood grain, water bubbles, shading, and blending
- Layout tips, use of reference material, highlights and shadows
- Panel projects include: Maltese cross with real fire effect, wood grain, paper scroll, rose, chrome beveled logo, diamond plate, metal with rivets, granite slab metal tear out with bubbles and template backgrounds.
Gravity-feed airbrushes will be provided for student’s use during class. If desired, students may bring their own gravity feed airbrush.
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Custom Wood Grain Techniques Course
No airbrush experience necessary.
Students attending the Wood Grain Techniques course will learn:
- Wood grain techniques using PPG waterborne and solvent basecoats
- Create show panels with different wood grain effects
- Create grain with graining tools, brushes, airbrushes, tack rags and scuff pads
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