Airbrushed girl on car bonnet
No digital manipulation. 13 hours.
Tools:
Devilbiss airbrush.
Hand cut Frisket Film stencils.
Hand cut tracing paper stencils for some of the smaller, sharper detailed cast shadows.
Freehand local shadows.
The painting:
One-shot sign-writer's enamel and turpentine thinner.
Substrate:
Toyota Corolla bonnet sprayed with auto enamel, then baked, by Joe, a very dear friend and a brilliant auto spray painter from Liverpool, Sydney, Australia.
Technique:
I used the 'Boris Vallejo' technique, only with an airbrush rather than traditional bristled brushes. Basically, I sprayed a monochrome first, in a brown/grey skin tone shadow colour. I then sprayed the colours in high quality sign-writer's enamel thinned with turps to make the paint translucent. The idea was to emulate Vallejo, and also Rembrandt who often used 'glazes' to paint over his underpaintings.