Airbrush painting techniques

Аннотация

The airbrush was invented by a watercolourist, Charles Burdick, in 1 893, as a tool for laying colour washes. It was not well received by his fellow painters, who disapproved of the idea of a mechanical painting tool, but its potential was quickly discovered by artists practising in other fields. The airbrush became a valuable tool for commercial art forms, photo-retouching and decorative crafts such as ceramic and fabric painting. It became specially associated with graphic art and illustration, and has been represented mainly in that context in recent technical manuals and inspirational books on airbrushing. The common understanding about airbrushing is that the techniques necessarily produce a particular kind of flawless, heavily modelled and glossily finished imagery.