Archive for December 9th, 2007

Dennis Mathewson in Sweden

Sunday, December 9th, 2007

Sept 15, 2007, I had a One Day Workshop in Gotenburg, Sweden at the Anest-Iwata facility Host Iwata Scandinavia promoted a great turn-out event with some of the best talent I ever held any one-day workshop. Aberto Ferrero, Satoru Iwata, Christian Bertolini and me, left Italy to Sweden for this one day event. Here are some of the pix from that day. Thanks to the entire staff of Iwata Scandanavia for setting up a terrific facility stage for this event.
~ Dennis Mathewson http://www.cosmicairbrush.com

First I start out warming everybody up with some drills and showing them the new Iwata Kustom line of airbrushes.

Note I even used my own hand carved TIKI handle I made for myself and my trusted CH Kustom. Once I see just how skilled this group is I skipped all the basics and moved on to more advanced stuff for them.

We jumped right into a skull stencil pattern I drew up and let each give it their own flair. WOW! This group was awesome and we really moved through most this stuff fast.

Linda Tolind even trained in for the day and man can she kick ass with that TR-1 pistol handled airbrush. Each artist gave the skull their own twist…Very Cool!

Everybody really came up with great stuff that day. They all started out on Medea water based colors then we moved on to ALSA colors and and tried lots of cool F/X.

David Gunnarsson Known for his Fantastic hockey helmet work even gave the TR-1 a good show. They all really like that airbrush, and MAN, they can really make it work for them.

Robert Forsgren came all the way in by train also WOW! These guys really had me showing stuff I normally never do in a one day workshop here Robert gave the skull a wood TIKI look how’s that? Awesome!

Every hour I pulled everybody forward and got more and more detailed into this design. They also loved my one hour slide presentation I had with me from the current Air Affair in SLC they got to see the who’s who and see what they are painting even today. Just like they were there.

We painted right up till the final hour of the class intensely WOW!

Then it was time to bust into some of my CLASSIC Hawaiian style artwork and give them some ideas on how I paint and even a TIKI history lesson that all really enjoyed.

Finally I busted out all my own Artool Tiki Master templates and gave demos and let all play with the products to check them out and
get a quite demo to see how to use them. That pretty much wrapped up the day of fun.

Thanks to all and a few had to leave before the final pix to catch their trains back home all over sweden. Linda and Christian hung around with me one more day for a private tiki painting session that really topped off my trip and allowed me to leave behind a little Island Culture for them to remember me by.

Aloha Dennis

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