Comments on: How to Airbrush Tutorial - Paint Freehand with a Double-Action Airbrush

on 8/14/2008 I've been interested in learning how to airbrush. This will come in handy. Thanks for the helpful article.

on 10/5/2007 I love this article. You've covered everything that gave me problems back when I owned an airbrush and compressor, and convinced me to try again someday. I haven't seen it explained this simply and effectively anywhere else, and my early experiments were attempts to copy experienced airbrushers and some Giger artworks. Ow.

Masking and frisket aren't that hard, I've seen artists use records, old CDs, cardboard cutouts, ripped cardboard and any flat object for temporary masks, while cutting frisket is a matter of putting it over the sketch and doing a cutout, then pasting it down. The main thing to remember about frisket (which I use with watercolors) is that it comes in light tack and hard tack, and the hard tack is only good for things like car finishes and baked enamel refrigerator doors -- any paper or board it'll strip the surface off. Light tack is good enough for artwork.