Due to lack of funds and earning a wage less than what i needed to live, I returned from Thailand last June in the hope that I would earn more money and be able to continue my degree in the UK where the course fees would be cheaper. Unfortunately I missed my assessment deadline on my painting course  and had to drop out of the painting degree programme.

However, I’m not one to be held back by something like that and will do everything I can to continue my art journey, wherever that will take me, and for now that seems to be in the direction of airbrush art work.

While in Thailand I came up with an idea to do custom paintwork for motorbikes, helmets and snowboards etc with a friend of mine, so prior to my departure from the land of smirks I bought some airbrush equipment and paints and had them to delivered to my friends house who had a year to practise with them before my arrival.

The equipment I purchased was an Iwata Eclipse HP-CS along with a Badger Air compressor, Auto-Air Colors water-based paints, various cleaning equipment and Artool Freehand stencils. Still, the challenge is that I have never used an airbrush and before being able to produce work for paying clients, I have to become not just competent but excellent with this this type of media.

 

And so I will start this drawing course again using the airbrush as my chosen drawing tool in the hope that I will develop my skills with a tool that so far I seem to have no control over, as can be seen in my first airbrush piece above.

Nevertheless, I don’t just plan to be a commercial artist, I still want to continue experimenting and try to find my own style so that I can continue top produce contemporary paintings as well, hopefully airbrush can play apart in those.