The winners of the airbrush contest „Painting LEGO®“ are found: With a major lead at the online voting, Hungarian artist Mike Tamas reached first place with his Star Wars artwork „Alone“, followed by Thomas Grocke on 2nd place featuring an „Fire & Ice“ Ninja motif. On third place is Thomas Pitz with the British „Lester Minifigure“ portrait. There have been more than 1600 votes, about half on them have been placed online, the other half by paper ballot at the Fan Meeting in Skærbæk/Denmark and at Modell-Hobby-Spiel trade fair in Leipzig/Germany. The three winners are receiving shopping vouchers at a total value of 300 Euro, that are sponsored by the member companies Harder & Steenbeck, Tropical Airbrush and Airbrush-City.

Today, artists and companies in the airbrush industry worldwide are celebrating the „Airbrush Artist Day“, the international celebration day for airbrush art and technique. Featuring the motto „Be part of this passion called airbrushing!“ there will be events, exhibitions, artist meetings, special promotions all about the airbrush and all around the world. After the idea was born in South America, US artist Gerald Mendez and his british colleague Andrew Penaluna discovered the right date: In historic documents they found out, that the name „Air Brush“ was noted for the first time on October 6, 1883, in Rockford, Illinois, USA.

Further information on the Airbrush Artist Day at #airbrushartistday.

For about 6 weeks, the members of Airbrush-Fachverbandes e.V. have painted small artworks with the airbrush on LEGO tiles, measuring only a few centimeters, to participate at the contest „Painting LEGO®“, launched by Airbrush-Fachverband e.V. The topic: LEGO, of course – in all its varieties, that the artists could imagine.

The results are now on display on the website www.airbrushfachverband.de/lego-voting. By online voting, everyone can vote for his/her favorite artwork until October 20, 2019. The best three will be awarded with a „Build an airbrush“ voucher from Harder & Steenbeck Airbrush as well as 30 rep. 50 Euro shopping vouchers, sponsored by Tropical Airbrush and Airbrush-City.

Continue reading

The popular exhibition „Fantasy World of Airbrush“ show in Grefrath/Germany (close to the Dutch border) takes place on August 24/25, 2019, showcasing the work of 65 arists from Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Sweden. From human and animal portraits, illustration, body painting to automotive art, the whole range of airbrush art can be discovered. Especially car and bike fans will not only love the airbrush show, but also the US Car and Bike show which takes place outside the ice rink hall, providing more than a congenial framework. Continue reading

After the coffeetable book „Airbrush-Portfolio“ and the „Airbrush Expo Leipzig“, the European Airbrush Association has now launched a new members‘ project: In cooperation with the Lego modelling association LBrick from Leipzig / Germany, a museum building will be established in which an exhibition of airbrush artworks painted by the members will be shown. The artworks will be airbrushed on flat Lego plates. All artworks will be included in a contest featuring a public voting. The project, the artworks and the artists will be featured at the Lego headquarter in Billund / Denmark, at Modell-Hobby-Spiel show in Leipzig, at further exhibitions, in Airbrush Step by Step magazine as well as through other media.

Artists can apply for the project / contest until June 15 through the website of Airbrush-Fachverband. To participate, it is of course possible to become a member shortly.

Go to Airbrush Lego project page

Harder & Steenbeck has recently invested heavily in their manufacturing facilities in Norderstedt, Germany. Three major new high-tech CNC machines this year have not only greatly increased their manufacturing capacity, but also opened up new avenues for product design, and development.

A new CNC milling and turning machine complements the already state-of-the-art machines upon which Harder & Steenbeck airbrushes are made, whilst a new polishing machine enables an even finer finish to be applied to the parts after they have been machined.

But the unit which offers the greatest interest to Harder & Steenbeck users is the new CNC needle machine. The capabilities of this machine has meant that H&S could bring new ideas to the shaping and finish of the needles. And so with this new freedom, they began to investigate how to be better! Continue reading

Association members Marcus Eisenhuth has lately been featured in Airbrush Step by Step Magazine: He is an expert for photorealism and shares his workflow on a frog portrait with the reader. You can hardly believe that this artwork is not a photo.
Marcus Eisenhuth: www.berlin-airbrush.de
Airbrush Step by Step Magazin: www.airbrush-magazine.net

From March 13-17, the airbrush association took part in the art and crafts show Creative in Dortmund, Germany. It informed the visitors all about airbrushing at its booth. In 12 one hour workshops almost 70 visitors had the chance to try the airbrush technique and create a small piece of art – with acrylic paint on cardboard or with food colors on sugar paste. More than 400 visitors watch the 3 stage demos by association member Roger Hassler about „Decorating with the airbrush technique“, „Mixed acrylics technique with the airbrush“ and „airbrush cake decoration“.