How to Choose Paint for Airbrushing

Video Transcript

"Welcome, my name is Lars Erik Robinson, I'm with LarsEr Arts All Around Art-tainment. I do a lot of airbrushing once in a while, and it can become confusing when you go to stores and you look for all the different paints that you use. One that I prefer - if I'm doing auto or motorcycle, this auto air paint is very good, it sticks on there but it's also water based which I like. You could always pick up the regular auto paint that you can buy with the activator and the thinner, is you can do that if you really want to have it like a regular car, but thinning it out is important with a thinner that comes with it. Createx is another brand, it's an opaque airbrush color, that is really excellent for doing a regular illustration work with airbrushing. This acrylic inks markers are wonderful because you can use them both in your airbrush gun and a brush, and they're kind of a mixture between watercolor and acrylics, so, they work really excellent too. Well you know, then you have the thinners that come with it and stuff like that, so, those are some of the different ideas that you can get, you could also use the - they have watercolors that come in tubes, that are ready to go if you just want to get the watercolor look and just airbrush that with the airbrush gun. So, there's all different type of airbrush guns but the different paints on there and the important thing to remember is that you don't want it to be too thick. Sometimes when some of these paints lay around, they thicken up, so thinning them out a little bit with water if they're water based is important. Thank you guys so much for joining me. I hope that helped you understand a little bit more about airbrush paint and how to choose them. Thank you."