Welcome to Harvest 07! Harvest is the brainchild of digital artist Bill Reichardt (a.k.a. tsubasa) and Pinup/Fetish photographer Timothy Dolph. In conjunction with the Erotic Signature, Harvest’s mission is to procure the best in erotic expression in a presentation that will prove to be the Southeastern United States’ preeminent erotic art show. This one night event will showcase the erotic works of internationally renowned artists in addition to multi-media presentations, fashion shows and live performance. The Harvest approach has its roots in a self-imposed demand for quality and an artist’s embedded love of his or her craft. Along with a pan-sexual open-mindedness that feeds social responsibility, the Harvest presentation will not only expose artists to an audience that they might previously not have had, but expose an audience to experiences they might never have the opportunity to encounter.

Harvest is not a Fetish show. It’s not a Pin-Up or Erotic Photography show. Harvest is not a Sexy Painting show. It’s not Burlesque and and it’s not Bondage. What is it then? It’s an amalgamation of all of these and more! Harvest will present 50 of the world’s best artists in all genres of the erotic arts in addition to performance and erotic fashion design. The ever-growing list of artists, performers and designers that will fill the Harvest 07 night with sensuality, grace and eroticism can be found on their website: www.harvestartshow.com. In addition to Harvest’s visual and cerebral offerings, proceeds from The Erotic Signature book and a portion of Harvest07 sales will be donated to the Elton John Aids Foundation in the interest of bettering human sexuality and health.

You’re invited to the Harvest 07 Pre-Party - October 5th 10pm to 6am. Featuring ONI, Lydia Libertine, Twisted Dollies, and Purgatory. Private European Style Fetish Party, Dark Performance Art, Dungeon with Master Chuck. B.Y.O.B. for 21 and Up. Featuring DJs Aesthetic and Triskyl. Visit AgoraphobiaProduction.com for more.

Above: Erotic artist Gina King in front of several of her paintings. The dress in the photo is the one she’ll be wearing to the show, which makes the show a worthwhile event regardless of anything else. Visit Gina’s web site or visit Gina’s MySpace page at MySpace.com/EroticArtistGina.

THE DETAILS:
What: Harvest www.HarvestArtShow.com
When: Saturday October 6, 2007 - VIP and Media Opening:8-9PM
Main Event: 9PM-2AM
Where is Harvest? The Loft - 1374 West Peachtree St., Atlanta, GA 30309
Phone: 404-885-1365

Some of the artists who will be participating: Dave Nestler, Susan Heidi, Tsubasa, Steve Diet Goedde, Viva Van Story, John Santineross, Ed Mironiuk, Tyson McAdoo, Timothy Dolph, Justice Howard… and many, many more. Plus a performance by Airbrush/Bodypaint Artist Pashur should be very interesting.

Click here to learn more about the Harvest Art Show online.

Thanks to Gina King for her help with this post. Stay tuned to AirbrushTour for follow up pix to this hot event.

Vince Neil, singer of Mötley Crüe hangs with Doug Hash at the A.D. Cook display at Sturgis ‘07.

Click here to visit Vince Neil’s MySpace page.

A couple posts back, we mentioned that we were starting a new segment on AirbrushTour to showcase the talented artists on MySpace. And while we’ve certainly featured several artists who have MySpace pages in the past, we’re proud to introduce the first official post to present to you a new artist (at least to AirbrushTour).

The first of the MySpace Featured Artists is Christopher Smith aka Crisobal. Christopher Smith began airbrushing with Space City Airbrush in 2000 on the Kemah Boardwalk. As a Houston, TX artist he has been airbrushing for about 7 years solid and is shows. This self taught through learned his skills by investing countless hours in the garage/studio to master his craft. Until recently, most all of Chris’ referrals have been through word of mouth, but he’s recently put a portion of his work on his web site and on MySpace. Now, he says… “the hits on the site and biz have increased”. Chris has been using Iwata airbrushes since he started. He says he’s tried other airbrushes but wasn’t impressed. He finds portraits to be the most challenging - each one offers something unique and different, be it the eyes, the skin tone, or both.

Below are a few examples of the art of Cristobal… we hope you enjoy them as much as we do.

Part of a school mural - a work in process. Chris specializes in airbrushed murals in museums, offices, schools, and private residences.

Portrait of Priest.

Portrait of Shakira.

Office mural in process - 95% completion.

This Beatles inspired Prius was just completed for Toyota

Space City Airbrush specializes in airbrushed murals, airbrushed sheetmetal (such as motorcycle tanks and fenders), airbrushed portraits, airbrushed helmets, airbrushed guitars, airbrushed t-shirts, and live airbrushing entertainment.

Want to know more… check him out online at SpaceCityAirbrush.com or visit his MySpace page at MySpace.com/cristobal121171.

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All images in this post are copyright © 2007 Christopher Smith. Used by permission.

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THE WORLD’S MOST IMPORTANT FINE ART FAIR HEADS WEST
Artexpo, the biggest name in international fine art fairs, is expanding to Las Vegas, and taking with it the 29-year reputation from New York City where it is known as the premier destination for the fine art trade and collectors of fine art for all tastes, styles and budgets.

The world’s largest name in fine and popular art fairs is creating a West Coast show, September 28-30, 2007 at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. With the world’s most exciting city as its host, Artexpo Las Vegas will serve the expansive West Coast trade and consumer marketplace, creating an exciting new buying event in a western location. Artexpo Las Vegas offers the growing West Coast art enthusiasts an opportunity to visit their favorite publishers, galleries and artists in an exciting location.

Trade Only VIP Preview
Thursday, September 27; 6pm-9pm Be the first to see the new Artexpo Las Vegas. All members of the trade are invited to shop the show a day early and mix and mingle with exhibitors during the official kick-off to Artexpo Las Vegas 2007!

Charity Evening to Benefit the Sunrise Children’s Foundation
Artexpo is proud to host a charity event to benefit Las Vegas’ Sunrise Children’s Foundation. The silent auction will be held Friday, September 28 from 6:30 p.m. – 9 p.m.and the evening will include drinks, hors d’ oeuvres and the opportunity to purchase featured works, with proceeds benefiting the SCF. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased at the door.

Gallery Symposium
The Gallery Symposium, a new education program for gallery personnel, will feature 15 seminars,hosted by industry experts, designed to teach best practices in gallery sales, marketing, trends and technology. Courses include Increasing Gallery Sales, Marketing that Works, Making Sculpture Pay Off, Giclée Products, Evaluating the Quality of Artwork, and much more.

Celebrity Art Pavilion
Artexpo Las Vegas is excited to host some of the world’s most famous celebrities in the Celebrity Art Pavilion. See the work and hear the stories of celebrities turned artists, like Tony Curtis, Grace Slick, and many others. Celebrity appearances and lectures are scheduled throughout the weekend.

Click here to visit Artexpo online.

Watch AirbrushTour for follow up posts to this great event! Click here to view AirbrushTour articles from Artexpo 2007 in New York.

Our buddy Norm Greg sent us this fun pic of his grandson, Micheal, who at 14 months proves you are never too young to start a career in art. A regular at Norm’s studio, this future airbrush master stands on a box to reach the tough spots as he paints with passion. Kudos to Michael, our youngest post ever. Keep it up and one day we’ll be attending your workshops.

Since joining the MySpace craze back in August, we’ve been fortunate to discover a plethora of amazing creative talent, including several old friends we were happy to find there, along with several new friends (and many of those are airbrush related). In fact, there is so much amazing art and artists that we at AirbrushTour feel it worthwhile to share them with you. So, we’ve decided to do a regular feature here on the artists - airbrush and otherwise - bringing them to you as we discover them.

Soon, we’ll bring you the first of many. Then another, and another, and so on until you’ve been exposed to so much great art your eyes will explode. Sounds like fun, eh? And we encourage you to visit these artist and check out their great art. Contrary to popular belief, you don’t need a MySpace account to view their pages. So, as we bring you talent, just click their link to learn more about them - tell them you found them here, on AirbrushTour. And at anytime, you can check our growing list by clicking the ‘MySpace Featured Artist‘ link in the CATEGORIES Section in the center column of any AirbrushTour page.

Some artists previously featured on AirbrushTour with MySpace Pages (profiles set to ‘private’ not listed):
A.D. Cook | Bones | Fonzy | Craig Fraser | Jason Doll | Javier | Lil Newt | Marshall Parks | Norm Gregg | Kat | Ryno | Shawn Wilkin | Thom Madro | Vandemon | Wyland

This is just a start, and it’s possible we missed a few. There are definitely tons of great MySpace artists not yet featured on AirbrushTour, but we’re working on it. Over time, we’ll add more. And as we do, we’ll share their MySpace page with you.

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Are you a MySpace artist and want to be showcased on AirbrushTour? If so, contact A.D. Cook on his MySpace page >>> MySpace.com/ADCookFineArt.

Friday afternoon made for a great day of hangin’ with the car guys at the Super Run Car Show. The Water Street District in Henderson, Nevada’s downtown streets play host to hundreds of cars, trucks and motorcycles this September 20th to 23rd. We were there, and the word on the street is that there are over 1,000 hot rides on display. We’d have to agree. Either way - hundreds or thousands - this outdoor rod show is impressive. This automotive event is open to all years, makes & models of classic vehicles: cars, trucks, motorcycles and special interest vehicles including vintage, classics, street, hot rods, muscle cars, street rods, competition vehicles and customs. Super Run 2007 will be held in downtown Henderson with cruise lanes on Water Street, just down the road from Las Vegas.

So, with that were bringing you some pics - lots of pics - of this cool hot rod event. Normally, we’d split this post up and bring it to you in two or even three posts, but this event is live - it’s happening now! We want to encourage you to check it out, so we’re loading this post up with tons of pics - perhaps the most ever in a single AirbrushTour post… our gift to you. Enjoy.

Flamed pickups always rule, especially when they are as clean as this one.

Old-skewl pinstripes dress this entire car.

We’re huge fans of the ‘60 Chevy Impala.

Sweet. Reminds us of why we like classic cars. Well done.

No real rod show is complete without a red Ford coupe or two.

This 2000 Corvette, designed, engineered and built by Ron G. Rockwell boasts a current investment of $225k. It’s currently the class winner of the Super Chevy Show 2001-2003 and 2005-2007 for a modified street legal Corvette.

Flame babe painted by Rich Inman.

Works for us.

And under the hood…

Supercharged 625 HP with a nitrous kicker! Wow - that’ll get you where you’re going fast.

Inside - a cool helmet with a ton of attitude lies in waiting.

The wheelie bar ought to hold her down a bit when the thottle is pushed.

This is one clean Nova. Where’d we put that check book?

A 1937 Terraplane Pickup built and owned by Dan & Mary Dowdy. This is an all steel beast. Only 16 are known to exist. This one features paint and flames by Dan Dowdy.

And under the hood is pure power. What a beautiful beast this one is.

This rad pickup features skulls and flames - and a lot of both.

One sweet sled… this one in blue.

Hey, even car shows feature cool bikes on occasion. This Harley-Davidson Road King Classic showcases an Oakland Raiders motif.

The Raiders logo is well executed on its tank.

This ride features flames within flames - very cool.

Blown Willies coupes are always cool…

…and this one with a trick hand-painted blower belt is no exception.

This is an excellent example of a 1911 Cadillac - 1 of 3 known to exist today.

And an early 60’s Cadillac - pink of course (our favorite color).

This one properly equipped - er, we mean accessorised.

A tricked-out Chevy SSR.

Check out the cool flames and pinstripe by Bob Spina aka ‘Vegas’. That guy is everywhere

Lots of orange rods at this year’s show, but this one stood out as one of the cleanest.

Afeared of clowns? Better stay away from this one. Cheech would be proud. Oh ya, that ice cream was gooood!

Check out this kewl rat rod built by Henderson local and truck owner Ron.

This race-ready Camero is all fired up.

The true-fire flames are well done - crispy in fact.

Helter Skelter - indeed.

Mighty Mouse… looking mighty pissed - hand painted though, and we like that.

Dirty Jo is one tricked sedan.

Nice colors complete this beast in waiting.

Sweeeeeeet. Got to love those beautiful pinstripes.

Pretty girls selling T-shirts are always welcome on AirbrushTour.

So there you have it… a small taste of a great event. Check it out if you get a chance.

Friday 9/21 - 8AM to 8PM - Jan & Dean live in concert at 7PM
Saturday 9/22 - 8AM to 8PM - Chubby Checker & The Wildcats live in concert at 7PM
Sunday 9/23 - 8AM to 1PM

There is also a food court area, products vendors, and vendors with automotive type products for all to see and purchase. This event is open to the public and FREE to spectators of all ages. Stop by and vote for your favorite vehicles.

The proceeds of Super Run 2007 benefit local children’s charities and non-profit organizations.

So there you have it; Admission is free, the cars are cool, and beer is cheap… so check it out. Check SuperRun.com or call (702) 287-2171 for more info.

Colorful characters at Sturgis - Bob Spina and lovely ladies hangin’ out in front of Little Buddha Tattoo on Main Street in Sturgis, SD, USA. Life is Good.

above: Gabe McCubbin (Artool), Pam Shanteau and Gary Glass (Iwata-Medea).

Day 4 featured the inaugural Ultimate Air Affair Car and Motorcycle Show. The classes ended on day 3, which enabled the instructors to finish the projects they started earlier in the program or had yet to start. A 2008 van was donated by Chrysler for the Ultimate Air Affair and had a film strip graphic design painted on its’ sides and tailgate compliments of Dean Loucks and Kindig (ASET’s painter). The filmstrip had numerous individual cells that were airbrushed with classic movie scenes by the instructors. Many of the instructors had to wait for day 4 to paint the cells on the van. While the artists airbrushed inside, there was a world class car and cycle show going on outside. ASET had the road closed to traffic and filled the boulevard and adjacent parking lots with custom vehicles. Many of the students from the 3 day workshop, stayed for day 4. The van was moved into the “VooDoo Swing Lounge” so the artists could work their magic while the attendees watched and asked questions. The day ended with all of the instructors having airbrushed their classic images onto the van which would eventually end up being displayed in Chrysler corporations’ 2007 SEMA show booth at Las Vegas.

All in all it was a great show and a win-win situation for both the artists and the students. The positive energy flowed in both directions with both sides benefiting from the good karma of the other. The good folks at ASET really know how to put on a first class event that reflects the quality of the people involved in the preparation and implementation of the 2007 Ultimate Air Affair.

Bones and Paul Quinn discuss Frankenstein’s Monster.

Bob Soroka-Pam Shanteau-Craig Fraser pose with the van.

Pamela Shanteau paints a scene from The Wizard of OZ.

Ryno and Jason Doll take a break.

Artists hard at work on Chrysler van.

Soroka airbrushes the 3 Stooges.

ASET’s Airbrushed Art Gallery.

ASET’s Headquarters during the car show.

Paul Quinn paints his panel for the ASET art gallery.

Steve Driscoll and Bob Soroka return from a trip to the ED Roth’s collectibles tent.

Day 4 Car Show.

More Day 4 Car Show.

Chrysler van with film strip graphic.

Film strip with airbrushed cells.

Steve Vandemon’s panel for art gallery.

Pamela Shanteau mugging with Ed “Big Daddy” Roth’s wife “Trixie”.

Pam Shanteau, Trixie Roth, Craig Fraser and Ron Gibbs take time to visit.

Sign for the VooDoo Swing Lounge.

Ron Gibbs demo panel.

Fonzy’s demo panel.

Pamela Shanteau’s art gallery demo panel.

Dean Loucks demo panel.

Fonzy paints Brando.

Mathewson airbrushes Tarzan for his panel.

Fraser’s art gallery panel.

Gerald Mendez’s van cell.

Dean Loucks van cell.

Fonzy and Matthewson paint cells.

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Photos and text for this post courtesy of Donn “Too Tall” and Pamela Shanteau, copyright 2007 Air Illusions Studio.

Track back to read ASET Ultimate Air Affair 2007 - Part 1.

Track back to read ASET Ultimate Air Affair 2007 - Part 2.

Track back to read ASET Ultimate Air Affair 2007 - Part 3.

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Iwata-Medea - Kustom Series Airbrushes

above: Las Vegas artists A.D. Cook and Thom Madro at Thom’s studio

Thom Madro, or Thomadro as he’s known in the art world, is a true renaissance man, bringing joy and beauty to the world since achieving a B. A. in Fine Art from San Diego State University in 1974. Since then, Thom has been exhibited all over the world and his patron list reads like a Who’s Who.

(above: Cat Nap - © 2007 Thomadro)

Thom’s work includes paintings on canvas (above) to body casting sculptures (below).

(above: Queen of Hearts - © 2007 Thomadro)

Thom has even been known to put his Iwata airbrushes to use, every chance he gets. We’ll bring you more on some of his amazing airbrush paintings on a future post (note: there’s a taste in the pic at the top of this post). In the interim, if you are ever in Vegas, check out his work at the Oh My Godard Gallery at the Miricle Mile shops at Planet Hollywood.

Click here to visit Thomadro Art online or click here to visit Thom Madro’s MySpace page.

Our buddy, and motorcycle ambassador Charlie Brechtel is a diverse guy with a passion for all things motorcycle, and all things biker - especially when it includes beautiful biker babes.

Click here to visit Sturgis Rider Live.

Learn more Charlie and all things biker at Big7Productions - The Bikers Inner Circle.

Hide the women and children. Introducing the new Wrath of Skullmaster, only from Artool. Just be thankful these frightening templates won’t cost you your soul.

The Artool® Skull Master Series® was created by Craig Fraser not to replace your creativity, but to spark it, by giving you a killer set of tools to help you make the finest skulls possible. Realistic fire is all the rage now, so why not realistic skulls!? Hence, the new series from Artool: Horror of Skullmaster. Don’t worry, there are still plenty of horror movies for us to steal names from - so stay tuned!

Not only did Artool give you a more anatomically correct series of Calaveras, but they also gave you both the positive and negative skull templates as well as registration holes in each corner for perfect alignment. Used in conjunction, the Horror of Skullmaster will ensure the best-looking skulls you have ever done, and the freedom to finish them off in your own style. Just like the steak knives offered on those late-nite infomercials “…there’s more!” Artool offers you Horror of Skull Master designs in three sizes. And what more could you ask for - except, maybe more stencils!? You can be sure they’ll continue to crank them out at the Artool Chemtox Lab, as long as you demand them. Keep the suggestions coming and they promise to keep you supplied with the latest and best skin-challenged creations to ever be lazer-cut out of dead dinosaurs!

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