Learn to airbrush from the pros. Here’s the latest list of upcoming airbrush workshops.
• • • August • • •
Basic Airbrush Techniques with Robert Paschal
Sat. August 16
6-Hr. Hands-on Workshop
Beacon, NY www.arttalk.com/workshop/workshop.htm
(845) 831-1043
Ultimate Air Affair
August 29th - 31st
Salt Lake City, UT
For registration contact www.asetusa.com
• • • September • • •
Airbrush Action Getaway
Sept. 22 - 26
South Point Hotel & Convention Center
Las Vegas, NV
Click here to register: www.airbrushaction.com
• • • November • • •
Basic Airbrush Techniques with Robert Paschal
Sat/Sun - Nov. 8 and 9 - Choose a Day
6-Hr. Hands-on Workshop
Artist & Display
Milwaukee, WI www.arttalk.com/workshop/workshop.htm
(414) 442-9100
(800) 722-7450
Killer Affair
July 19th & 20th
Killer Paint-Mike Lavallee’s studio in Snohomish, Washington
4 artists will be teaching - Steve Vandemon, Mike Lavallee, Deborah Mahan, Bob Soroka
2 day hands-on workshop
$275.00
Lunch and all materials provided
To register for either of this event, contact ASET or call them at 800-628-5449 USA Only.
Great Lakes Air Raid
July 11th & 12th
Mid Michigan Community College
Mount Pleasant, MI
4 artists will be teaching - Craig Fraser, Steve Driscoll,Jason Doll and Bob Soroka
2 day, hands on workshop
$275.00
Lunch and all materials provided
Killer Affair
July 19th & 20th
Killer Paint-Mike Lavallee’s studio in Snohomish, Washington
4 artists will be teaching - Steve Vandemon, Mike Lavallee, Deborah Mahan, Bob Soroka
2 day hands on workshop
$275.00
Lunch and all materials provided
To register for either of these events, contact ASET or call them at 800-628-5449 USA Only.
Last week, airbrush artists came from all over the continent to learn from the best, participating in Air Affair East at the Pennsylvania College of Art. Here are just a few pics from that event…
If you haven’t had a chance to get in on the fun yet, it’s not too late. The next Air Affair takes place soon. Sign up at ASET USA.
Gerald Menendez captured by a student at the Air Affair East last weekend. If you missed Air Affair East, you’ll want to secure your place at the upcoming Air Canada…
2 day, hands-on workshop
$275.00
Lunch and all materials provided
Killer Affair
July 19th and 20th, 2008
Killer Paint - Mike Lavallee’s studio
Snohomish, Washington
4 artists will be teaching:
Steve Vandemon, Mike Lavallee, Deborah Mahan and Bob Soroka
2 day hands-on workshop
$275.00
Lunch and all materials provided
Sign up by calling ASET Toll Free: 1-800-628-5449 (USA Only).
I recently traveled to Barcelona Spain where I had a one-day invitation only event at the facility of Anest-Iwata Iberica S.L.U. on Saturday May 17th. A total of over 20 local Iwata equipment retailers and distributors and their selected guest artists attended an 8 hour demonstration using all the cool new stuff Iwata has to offer. Plus I shared some of my tricks of the trade and carried my Tiki mania yet to another location in the world. Only thing is they already knew all about it from my last trip to Europe last year. (TrackBack to that post here)
My island style has truly been accepted worldwide and nothing could make me happier. I also carried with some classic skulls and fire demonstrations but MAN they really go for the Tiki stuff.
Not only was the local talent in Spain top notch but the city of Barcelona was amazing as well. The architecture and history is breath taking as for the food I was some of the best in the world. I could spend much more time there but as usual I must move on. The Anest Iwata folks were more than accommodating showing me some sites and setting up a world-class training atmosphere for a day.
The Spanish Tiki.
My Europe travel companion was Alberto Ferrero of Anest Iwata Europe. He was very helpful making sure everything goes as planned. Also attending was Iwata Japan’s top man Satoru Iwata himself.
Special thanks go to Cesare, Juan, Patrizia & Manuel for running the show and David Naylor a local Barcelona top class airbrush artist for dropping by at the end and presenting me a piece of his incredible artwork. Stay tuned as I travel more through Europe spreading the Tiki and airbrush fever.
Just a reminder to those of you who want to become airbrush masters. If you haven’t already signed up for the Air Affair East in Williamsport, PA, you’ll want to get right on that - it’s fast approaching. Here are the details.
2 day, hands-on workshop
$325.00
Lunch provided
All materials provided
Sign up by calling ASET Toll Free: 1-800-628-5449 (USA Only).
If you can’t make the Air Affair East, there are other Air Affair events to get involved with this year too…
Air Canada
June 26th-27th, 2008
Dupont Training Center
Point Claire QC
4 artists will be teaching: Fonzy, Ron Gibbs, Steve Vandemon and Deborah Mahan
2 day hands-on workshop
$250.00
Lunch and all materials provided
Great Lakes Air Raid
July 11th-12th, 2008
Mid Michigan Community College
Mount Pleasant, MI
4 artists will be teaching: Craig Fraser, Steve Driscoll, Jason Doll and Bob Soroka
2 day, hands-on workshop
$275.00
Lunch and all materials provided
Killer Affair
July 19th and 20th, 2008
Killer Paint - Mike Lavallee’s studio
Snohomish, Washington
4 artists will be teaching: Steve Vandemon, Mike Lavallee, Deborah Mahan and Bob Soroka
2 day hands-on workshop
$275.00
Lunch and all materials provided
And last, but not least, is the Ultimate Air Affair and Car show. Here’s a pic from last year’s event.
2008 Ultimate Air Affair and Car Show
ASET training facility
Salt Lake City, Utah
August 29-September 1, 2008
16 artists: Craig Fraser, Mike Lavallee, Fonzy, Gerald Mendez, Dean Loucks, Steve Driscoll, Ron Gibbs, Paul Quinn, Deborah Mahan, Pamela Shanteau, Bob Soroka, Bones, Brian Papa, Steve Vandemon, Jason Doll and Ryno Templeton
3 day, hands-on workshop
$535.00
Lunch and all materials provided
Sign up by calling ASET Toll Free: 1-800-628-5449 (USA Only).
Dennis Mathewson is headed for Europe to teach his legendary airbrush workshops. These events are sponsored by Iwata and Alsa so you know they’ll be great. Contact Alberto Ferrero, Airbrush Marketing Manager, Anest Iwata Europe at a.ferrero@anest-iwataeu.com or go to Airbrush-Iwata.com for more information and sign up for Paris and Barcelona workshops - but hurry… limited seating is available.
Please see below dates and details for the three seminars:
BARCELONA Spain
Saturday May 17th (10:00 - 18:00)
AP-7 Salida 13. Granollers
08410 Vilanova del Vallès
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PARIS France
Sunday May 18th (9:30 - 17:30)
S.T.D.S. S.à.r.l.
Z.A. de la Mare, 12 rue des Trois Saules
77930 St Sauveur sur Ecole
Prenotation online www.stds.fr
• • •
DEVENTER Holland
Saturday 24th of May (9:30 - 17:30)
EMPIREX
Emdenstraat 18 b
7418 BR Deventer Netherlands
tel: 0031 (0)570 610488
fax: 0031 (0)570 513926
Email: info@empirex.nl
Web site: http://www.empirex.nl
Learn to paint from Dennis…
The airbrush premier Tiki Master.
Dennis will be in the U.K. and other cities later this summer and early fall. We’ll bring you more on that as it happens.
Put yourself in this picture. Contact ASET Toll Free: 1-800-628-5449 (USA Only) to secure your place in this very unique, dynamic and fun learning experience.
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.
Class Times:
• One-day Classes: 9am to 5pm (classes tend to run later)
• Four-Day Classes: Days 1, 2, 3: 9am to 5pm (classes tend to run later); Day 4: Noon approximately.
The Vegas Getaway is held at the Southpoint Hotel and Casino.
Introducing Brian & Leah Gall own & operate Finishline Design Inc. in Corcoran, MN, just 30 minutes from downtown Minneapolis. Leah handles the airbrush and Brian is skilled in body work and graphic style paint jobs. Check out some of their work…
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.
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.
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