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Summary: An airbrush works by pushing paint out of a mechanical device using air, which comes from a CO2 compressor. Understand the anatomy of an airbrush gun with instructions from an experienced airbrush artist in this free video on painting techniques.
Mark Chandler has been airbrushing for more than three decades. He has been a professional artist for most of his working years.read more
"Hi, I'm Mark Chandler from Mark's Custom Airbrush, here in St. Petersburg, and today we're going to discuss how an airbrush works. An airbrush is actually a small spray gun that is hooked to a air source such as this. I've got a compressor here filled with CO2 gas with a regulator on it. And what the airbrush does is you push down for air and you pull back for fluid. This gun happens to be a siphon feed gun which actually siphons from the bottom and creates a vacuum inside the air cap here that atomizes the paint like a small spray gun. I'll give you a quick demonstration. You push down for your air and you pull back for fluid. As you can see, the gun does spray and does atomize your paint. Certain guns require certain paints to be ran through them, but this particular gun is good as far as like acrylic enamels, and lacquers, and so forth. I'm Mark Chandler from Mark's Custom Airbrush in St. Pete, and that is the fundamentals of the airbrush, and how an airbrush works."
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arubiccube said
on 11/10/2009 Hello, ive been stencling for a couple months now but I am having a severe problem with my airbrush however. Itt is a
pretty basic one, a Badger type Syphon Feed. Cannot find the instructions anymore so i cant give exact name.
For some reason my syphon feed is not working! It shoots out air but not the paint that i load it with.
When i put either cleaner or paint, it seems to be bubbling within the
feeder (which i can hear) and often bubbles out of the safety hole built in the plastic
top, rather than feeding in the airbrush and shooting out as it supposed to.
I havent had this problem till recently. I used to just use Water Based paints wihtout diluting it with water so i thought that might have been a problem, it being to thick. I read somewhere it should be about the same thickness as milk, but alas it is still not feeding into the airbrush
Can someone please help me?!
I have tri...