Making Movies

Been working like crazy on the new trailer for AirbrushArtTV.com for over a week now, hard going in the Adobe Creative Production Suite CS3 but man, it's great fun once you get your head around it all! Edited the soundtrack too which has come out real nice so please pop over and have a look if you haven't seen it already at www.AirbrushArtTV.com You can also play the lo-res version trailer to the right in the nav bar here on the Blog entitled Airbrush Art TV Video bar and if you subscribe to our Artists Way Podcast in Apple's iTunes software (or would like to) you can watch it in iTunes or on your iPod by clicking this link iTunes Direct Feed - isn't technology great! BTW, this feed will go toan Apple browser window and then will open iTunes and take you to the iPod page where you can then download the Podcasts.


Editing too is taking place at the moment for our first AirbrushArtTV movies - Knights on the Road Yamaha Warrior murals and the Valkyrie Dragon murals will be the first two projects to be featured on the website so keep your eye on the site for finished release dates for the movie tutorials which remember are FREE! Just pay your £29.99 membership for AirbrushArtTV.com and you're good to go for ALL our playlists for 6 months. That's a lot of stuff! There will be a Full DVD title too of Knights on the Road which is also in the editing suite at the mo.

Organic Art - Beej's Speciality

If I had the choice I would use ALL my own designs when working on customers' rides. I love just letting it all go and getting into real 'Organic' stuff, seems I can't do enough of it these days as everyone wants flames n skulls! No probs though, but I have some plans to paint some large canvases next year and concentrate on my own style.

My first award-winning bike (my Brother's R1 'Sibling') is still one of my favourites and also, the Red Dragon paint job for Chris in Bath, that ranks up there with the faves on my list.

For those of you who've never seen the R1 then here are some pics below, if I had the money I'd buy it back as Paul sold it a couple of years ago to fund his Volksrod project and now, he's sold that and bought . . and R1!! Hehe . .guess it must be Sibling 2 time then!



Working like this is so much more relaxing when a lot of the time, you're simply painting as you go and creating the images as you airbrush. I always have a rough sketch or starting point, like this pic here from the London Custom Bike Show, where I did a demo earlier this year. The imagination kicks in and the simple, thumbnail idea turns into a piece of art organically, almost all by itself - well, not quite, but you know what I mean!

Just give me an airbrush, some paint and point me at the surface, metal, card, board whatever, and I'll just let the weird-ness begin. I find it incredibly exhilarating painting this way and it's also very relaxing at the same time, kind of hightens all your creative nerve ends if you don't know where you're gonna end up.

If you watch 'Heroes' I think my eyes even turn white until I have finished the piece! Hehe . .

Monty Python Fun @ UK Masterclass

August 2008; Fraser, Vandemon & Curtis goofing around at the photo shoot in Worthing, England in between teaching airbrush & pinstriping classes.

I had such a fantastic time (says Beej) in Worthing with the Craig n Steve, they were a real blast and we had a lot in common with our crazy sense of humour! We spent a side-splitting evening in the Chinese Restaurant sending text messages quoting Viz magazine expletives across the Atlantic! Hehe . . brilliant fun and best of all - learning the sign language for 'Bulls**t' as demonstrated clearly by Fraser. Hehe! Thanks for that Sanjay :)

Apart from the Python referenced, squeaky-voiced, Terry Jones impersonations and Eddie Izzard references . . we DID actually do some airbrushing, pinstriping and teaching in between! The class spanned 6 days Monday - Saturday and everyone agreed when clearing up our rooms at the college on Saturday evening, that it had been an incredible, creative experience and the students (as was I actually!) were a bit low that it was at an end. Stu, from the Airbrush Centre who hosted the event this year said, 'It's like when you have to pack up at the end of a really cool, fun-packed holiday and leave all your mates. Nobody wants to home!'

Well, the good new is that 2009 will bring 2 Masterclasses to the UK with Beej and hopefully, one of those classes will again feature the fun-packed and talented crew of Craig Fraser, Steve Vandemon & Beej Curtis together again but this time, we will be possibly be taking the tour to House of Kolor so 'watch this space buddy . . !

The standard of the attending students was simply outstanding. I get asked a this question a lot by those considering to book a class: 'Do you have to be good at art to learn how to airbrush?' and the simple answer is - no. Airbrushing is a style of illustration that can be learned, like signwriting is a trade you can be taught with no prior artistic knowledge. Of course, you'll benefit greatly if you are artistic in some way already, obviously, but we can teach you the basics and the fundamentals it is up to you what you do with those skills and some achieve incredible results after only 2 or 3 days learning at our classes.

We are currently holding an Airbrush and Art Workshop in November 2008 in St Mawes, Cornwall and only have a couple of places left. If you would like to learn more about airbrush art then this class is for you! check the links on the right for Workshops or click HERE

Check out More of the pics below from the Masterclass in Worthing with Iwata Airbrushes and the Airbrush Centre.

Keep an eye on the website and the blog because it looks like we will be holding a second Masterclass with Fraser in 2009! Can't chuffin wait! www.organicimage.com

Power DVD Tutorials

The Power Series 3 DVD's & 1 CD 7 Hours of Tutorials!

The first DVD from Daniel Power is now available for pre-order from Beej & Organic Image. It is the first level in Daniel Powers ‘POWER series’ and is an amazing 4 disc set (3 x DVDs, 1 x CD rom) with over 7 hours of instruction! Pre-order now and get the cool Airbrush Bug Tee.

Pre-Order NOW! Get FREE Airbrush Bug Tee: £40.00 (for 71/2 hrs of tuition!)

More Photos from Masterclass - Brilliant Fun!

More pics for your enjoyment of the Masterclass 2009 with Beej, Fraser and Vandemon



Craig & Steve produced many panels like these over the 6 day period of the workshops







Steve doing his thing with a Mack brush, he really is a fantastic striper and outstanding artist.



The flying eyeball piece was also done with the help of Fraser, the guys worked a fair bit together on demo pieces like these.



Dan from Donny getting to grips with metal plate in Craig's class (put yer tongue back in Dan!)



Lining tape demo's laying out Flames n Tribals in Fraser's class



Part of the Iwata Shop where student's can purchase items they used during the week



Big Kev showing he has a natural ability for striping



Some of the students getting to grips with the dragon mural in Beej's class and also, pinstriping in Steve's class





And we all need somewhere to palette our paint - right!



One of my Organic pieces for the Skull n Flames class:





Vandemon striping Stu's (MrPid) jacket



And this is the tank piece that the 3 of us did together, mine was the top skull, Fraser's skull pile and cool whispy smoke and Vandemon added the sharpest lines - very cool and will hang on my wall with pride. (Beej)



Ya know, there's something about working with other, mad creatives, that sends you into crazy face mode! Hehe . . and the gurning winner this year is . . .









Hopefully, Steve & Craig will be coming back to the UK in 2009 and this time, we will be looking to travel further North with sketchy plans currently(more soon) to visit House of Kolor Paintshop in Doncaster and maybe, just maybe . . the Paintshop in Plaitford on the A36 so keep checking back folks . . . www.OrganicImage.com it's all you need!

3D Skulls and Stencils

Click HERE to go directly tour 3D Ceramic Skull Section of the website. These skulls ware made by the same workshops who made all the prop skulls for the Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull movie from earlier this year. Great for skull reference, just take pics and use for your own airbrush artwork, murals or drawing practice.