Whether it’s airbrush art or otherwise when it comes to show-time, ALSA really knows how to adorn their booth.

Hangin’ out with our friends at ALSA, A.D. Cook is graced by their California beauty.

On display at the Iwata-Medea booth at SEMA this year was an amazing piece of art. This guitar - a tribute to Gwen Stafani of “No Doubt” attracted some attention. Mike Lavallee’s assistant Nick Laye was the designer on this masterpiece and of course Mike Lavalle did the painting.

Nice Job Nick and Mike! See more of Mike Lavallee’s work at Killer Paint.

You may remember back in October, we brought you pictures from Italy that Dennis Mathewson shared with us while he was traveling there. We made some new friends that we never met yet - until SEMA 2007. It was a true pleasure and a delight to meet this fun-loving, talented group of guys in person while they were here in Vegas.

When they returned to Italy from their Vegas romp, Paolo (above with A.D.) sent some of his pictures to share with us and you. Enjoy!

AD. Cook with Georgio from Brimingham England.

This is a good time to mention AirbrushFree.com. AirbrushFree.com is a fairly new website project a member of the Italian contingent - Guilanno - has been creating on behalf of the world’s airbrush community. If you’re an airbrush artist and would like to get some free exposure, this is a great place to start. We’ll be covering Guilanno’s AirbrushFree.com site in upcoming posts, but in the meantime - head on over there and check them out.

Track back to Dennis Mathewson’s post from Italy.

The pix in this post courtesy and copyright © 2007 Paolo - Splash Design. Thanks Paolo.

Bob Soroka guides you through his kustom airbrush style using the Original Ol’ School Artool Freehand Airbrush Templates.

Bob Soroka, Senior Designer for Daimler Chrysler, has had the creative honor to design many vehicles from power trains, bodies and interiors to kustom automotive airbrushing. He has covered it all!

Over Bob’s career, his clients have included: Tiger Woods, Olivia Newton-John, Kid Rock, Dodge, Mopar, Sony Pictures, Cingular Wireless, JBL, Infinity, Owens Corning and many others. He has won the 2006 House of Kolor “Prestigious Painter of the Year” award. Bob’s work has been featured in such national publications as Airbrush Action Mopar Now, Viper Quarterly, Lowrider, Auto and Sound and many more.

In this Artool Instructional DVD, Bob walks you through his creation on the front cover using artool’s signature Series Essential Seven Templates, designed by Eddie Young, Richard Montoya, Andrea Mistretta and Gabe McCubbin. He also uses the Angle Master designed by Gary Padilla, MatchMakers by Michael Cacy and the MASTER SERIES, which include The Bird and The Pharoh, by legendary illustrator, Radu Vero. Armed with these Ol’ School Artool Freehand

Airbrush Templates and your airbrush, you can follow along to learn the tips and tricks of creating new and exciting kustom artwork!

“Artool Freehand Airbrush Templates are the ultimate weapons for your airbrush arsenal!”
— Bob Soroka

Approximate Run Time: 45 minutes.

Get your copy of Bob Soroka’s Video online at Coast Airbrush.

We recently watched this video and thought it had a lot of worthwhile information on using the Artool Templates and getting results fast. Bob keeps the good information coming and thoroughly explains many different ways to use Artool templates. The time-lapse section of Bob creating the entire artwork is especially cool.

Our MySpace Featured Artist contemporaries are more than airbrush stars. It’s about artists we respect, and their work, regardless of their medium or genre. Many airbrush, some sculpt, and others create the ultimate body art - tattoos. Yeah, we’re talking the real deal here - not the kind of body art that you shower off before heading to bed. The kind that lasts forever. And if you want it done right you go to an expert at their craft. That’s why we’re proud to share Clark North of Clark Tattoo as our latest MySpace Featured Artist. Check out the work below.

Clark is a man who loves his work. His chair is constantly full, and his needle always busy, but if you’re serious about what you want and you appreciate a true work of art, he’ll fit you in and get it done right. That’s why Clark will tell you… “You get the tattoo you deserve”.

Clark is a traditional painter too, favoring acrylics and either painting or drawing most every day. And it shows. Below are a few examples of his art…

Shown above: Clark (beside driver’s door) and the crew of A&E show INKED and Hart & Huntington Tattoo.

Above: A.D. Cook and Clark outside Hart & Huntington Tattoo at the Palms, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Clark Tattoo. Cool stuff. “Yeah, I like that story”.

Clark Tattoo on MySpace

Other MySpace featured artists on AirbrushTour.com

All images in this post are copyright © 2007 Clark Tattoo. Used by permission.

The Pic of the Week today is of A.D. Cook with two beautiful spokes models in an automotive accessories booth at SEMA 2007. Have a great Holiday Weekend everyone!

We want to wish you all an awesome and abundant Thanksgiving.

There were plenty of beautiful cars on display parked just outside at the SEMA event. This one caught our eye and looked familiar because it was painted by Charles Armstrong aka “The Kid”. We actually broke the story on this deck lid back in our March post about the Airbrush Action Getaway where he was teaching his expertise. Here it is all put together with the rest of the ride…

See other posts on Charles Armstrong and visit Charles Armstrong’s website here.

Okay AirbrushTour fans. This is the post you’ve been waiting all year for - (or at least all day). This is a long, fun one so strap in your seatbelts.

The 2007 Airbrush Confidential Party at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, NV featured two lovely models being painted by two lovely airbrush artists. Life is good.

We thought too many pictures of this event was just about enough. Enjoy…

The conspirators from left to right are: Deb Mahan, Elishiba, Timea, Pamela Shanteau and Gabe McCubbin of Artool Products. And behind the camera, working to get these great shots is A.D. Cook who also coordinated the models.

Say, nice Artool!

Passerby Steve Driscoll. Who let that guy in anyway?

The Airbrush Confidential Party was sponsored by Airbrush Action, Artool Products, Anest Iwata, Coast Airbrush, House of Kolor and Iwata Medea . Stay tuned for more on the party. Elishiba and Timea were passing out cigars in style. You’ll want to catch that.

For those of you who are interested in doing some body art projects yourself, or you’d just like to get the best tan of your life - you may want to learn about these cool bikinis that our model Timea was wearing.

These are really ingenious, strapless beauties that stay on amazingly well - even during the rigors of body painting - no wardrobe malfunctions here. Check them out…

Perfect Tan Bikini - Where the tan lines disappear.

Kudo’s to Dennis Mathewson in the launch of his new website.

The site is new, it’s cool - check it out. Click the image above to experience the new CosmicAirbrush.com.

Bob Spina’s finished Harley-Davidson Street Glide making it’s grand appearance at SEMA 2007.

And you may remember that Dennis Matthewson painted the Tiki on the front faring back in September… Go back and check out that post here.

This thing is really over the top - photos don’t do it solid. There’s more ALSA flake, color, striping and effects than you can shake a stick at on this project and it’s really something special, trust me.

Credits go out to…

Don Andress Las Vegas Harley Davidson, Bob Spina (702) 239-2823, Tom Kelly (562) 867-0511, Dennis Mathewson, Spade Brothers, Kelly Mack, and Develbiss.

Just push play, baby.

This week’s Pic of the Week features a snapshot looking over A.D. Cook’s shoulder at this week’s photo shoot with the famous Liz Ashley. It was a perfect location on a perfect afternoon in Anthem, Nevada. This shoot was done for the purpose of a new series of paintings on canvas. Check back for more on the paintings right here on AirbrushTour.com

Visit Liz Ashley online.