Dennis Mathewson in Japan - Part 2
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
This is a followup to last week’s post from Dennis Mathewson of Cosmic Airbrush. He was recently in Yokohama, Japan conducting a workshop, hosted by AIWA and Iwata. AIWA is a Japanese paint and body-shop supplier and they sell many different lines of paint and equipment including PPG, House of Kolor, Standox, RM and many others.
Akiyama-san, owner of AIWA, and Satoru Iwata - hosts at the workshop.
Here are statues of the two Iwata brothers that started the company 100 years ago.
Ikeda-san is the main man when it comes to airbrush - he is #2 in the airbrush empire of Iwata in Japan and always a big help and a friend at Dennis’ workshops, as well as personally while he’s in Yokohama.
Following are pictures of a number of students working on their projects. Lots of Artool template action that weekend.
Tiki time. Last year’s project was fire, this year was Tiki.
Norio was Dennis’ interpreter for the weekend and did a GREAT job. He is also a good friend of Akiyama-san and very willing to help.
This is the 10 minute demo project teaching speed.
Learning to make their own templates was taught as well.
Class study day one. Everybody painted this one.
Class study day two. Everybody painted this one as well.
Dennis signing some posters for the students.
Students from the first group.
Students from the second group.
Next, Dennis will be teaching workshops in Barcelona, Paris, Amsterdam and Copenhagen. May 15-25 he’s in Europe for Iwata and ALSA. He won’t be doing any U.S. workshops this year at all, things are really picking up in the custom paint world in Europe.
All images and text in this post were provided by Dennis Mathewson at Cosmic Airbrush and are copyright © 2008 Dennis Mathewson. Used by permission.
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