Blair School of Realism News
Keeping you up to date with all the latest painting tips, tricks, supplies, and workshops!
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Included in this issue:
- Dealing with Muddy Colors
- New Landscape and Water Workshop!
- New Satellite School opening
- 2019 Workshops
- European Tour Dates set
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| Upcoming workshops for 2019!
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Dru Blair
Pre-Raphaelite
Workshop
March 5-10, 2019
Learn to recreate an old master's painting combining the airbrush and traditional brush in this 5 day workshop! The Pre-Raphaelite style is considered one of the most beautiful in the art world,
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Dru Blair
Female Portraits
March 21-24, 2019
Includes comprehensive Color Theory!
In this 4-day workshop, Dru Blair and his staff will teach you the techniques of painting realistic skin tones, hair, lips, eyes, backgrounds and much more!
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Dru Blair
Advanced Portraits
March 27-31, 2019
This 5-day hands-on workshop covers the techniques involved in creating compelling male portraits. Realistic skin texture is one of the most difficult aspects of portrait painting, but we will conquer all versions here!
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Landscapes, Splashes and Light:
New Workshop February 16-19
Illuminated landscapes, mountains, lakes, clouds, atmosphere, splashes, sweat, night ocean and more. This class covers a greater variety of subjects than any other workshop, and includes color theory!
This is a multi-project class with several individual samples of objects from various sources rather than a single project from beginning to end.
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| | | The Blair School of Realism is expanding!
We will be opening a satellite location in Charleston, SC to give students an alternative venue with easy airport access, touring opportunities, and the chance to spend time in one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
Details and class dates will be announced soon!
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| | Dealing with Muddy Airbrush Colors
When you throw a bunch of colors together the result is usually something resembling mud. Small wonder, because mixing just two colors together results in a loss of saturation (color intensity). Its very easy to move from a pure "straight-out-of-the-bottle" color on the outside of the color wheel (above left image), towards a gray or other neutral color near the center. But try to go from the center of the color wheel outwards (above right image), and its a different story. It is much more difficult to move a color from a grayish unsaturated state to an intense state. It's almost as if the center of the color wheel represents a black hole from which it is difficult to escape.
The reason for this is simple: contamination. Intense colors are usually more "pure" regarding pigment. In other words, they contain fewer other colors to contaminate them. Introducing another color, especially a complementary color, will move a pure color quickly away from the edge of the color wheel, and into a less saturated zone. However, if you start with a muddy color near the center, adding more color does not remove the existing contamination, so the journey away from the center of the color wheel is more difficult.
The solution? Start out painting with purer, more saturated colors. Its easy to desaturate a color by simply adding its complement. It is not as easy to increase saturation, due to the presence of contamination. Therefore, I paint a little bit "hot" with regards to color intensity, because it is quick and easy to remove excess saturation.
Good luck with your upcoming projects!
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| Dru Blair European Tour dates: The tour begins April 6 and ends July 26.
Locations include • France (x3) • Denmark • Greece • Germany • Italy • Switzerland • Norway • Russia (x5) • Spain
Poitiers, France April 11-14 at ATS Creations Monochromatic PortraitChamonix, France International SALON Demonstration
Aalborg, Denmark Mar 29-Apr 1 at Airbrush Denmark - Male Portrait
Athens, Greece Nathan Makris May 2-5 Female Portrait
Hamburg Germany, Airbrush Step x Step Magazine, May 9-12 Male Portrait
Bari, Italy May 23-26 at Spazio Art Male Portrait
Flums, Switzerland, Trinity Salon May 29- June 2 Portrait
Nantes, France June 6-9 Pre-Raphaelite
Sandefjord, Norway KreativeKurs June 13-16 Male Portrait
Moscow Russia Ex Studio June 21-22 Landscape
Moscow, Russia Ex Studio June 23-25 Animal Portrait
Moscow, Russia Ex Studio June 26-30 Female Portrait
Saint Petersburg, Russia July 4-7 at First Airbrush Center Male Portrait, Textures
Siberia, Russia July 10-18 Portrait Workshops x 2 Valencia, Spain - Portrait Workshop July TBA Todoaerografia
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| The 2nd best upgrade you can make to your Iwata airbrush: The Blair Lowrider trigger
Next to the Blair SoftSpring, this is your best Iwata upgrade! After years of development, our precision short trigger upgrades for Iwata Micron airbrushes are now available!
We've teamed up with SharpenAir inventor Chad Elliott to create the optimal detail trigger, the "Blair Lowrider."
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| Next month: A New Skin Texture Stencil
A brand new reusable Mylar stencil is coming your way!
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| Visit our new online reviews page to see what others are saying.
Former customers and students are invited to add their own reviews and photos. A review button can be found at the bottom of each product or workshop page.
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| | Visit schoolofrealism.com or call Samantha at (803) 635-8060 to learn more
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