Subject: Optical Blending, Warm vs Cool Colors

Blair School of Realism News
Keeping you up to date with all the latest painting tips, tricks, supplies, and workshops!

Included in this issue:
  • Classroom in Box - Hair pre-sale!
  • Workshops for Summer/Fall
  • New Skull & Fire class
  • $300 Iwata CM-SB
  • More Color Theory: Warm vs Cool
    and Optical Blending

Pre-order the Classroom in a Box Hair Kit at the sale price of $59.95! Sale ends August 20!

This photorealistic hair kit includes:

  •  Exclusive access to online instructional content
  •  2 High-resolution, multi-use, laser-cut stencils
  •  5 - 5" x 7" sheets of Blair Synthetic Airbrush Paper
  •  4 color reference photos  to use as a guide
  •  6 bottles bottles of Createx Illustration Colors
  •  (colors needed for kit - Black, Sepia, Burnt Umber, Red, Cobalt Blue, Yellow)
  •  1 bottle of Createx™ Hi Performance reducer
  •  1 Aggressive pencil eraser
  •  1 Dowel
  •  1 Blade and Handle
  •  1 Stir stick
  •  1 Empty 10 mil dropper bottle for storing custom mixed colors
Upcoming workshops for Summer and Fall!
Dru Blair
Female Portraits

July 20-23, 2017 sold out
Oct 5-8, 2017 available


Our most popular workshop! 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 many other attributes and more!

Dru Blair
Advanced Portraits
July 26-30, 2017
Oct 11-15, 2017

Paint Realistic Celebrities!  Skin texture is easy when you know how! In this workshop, Take your work to the next level by painting photorealistic skin, pores, wrinkles, eyes, facial hair, lips, and backgrounds
and more!


Dru Blair
Beginners Airbrush

Aug 31-Sept 3, 2017

A 4-day workshop for the absolute beginner: Build confidence, learn at your pace and enjoy more time  mastering the basics.
If you thought learning to airbrush would be too hard, we've created this class to make it easy and fun! Learn the right way!


New Black Chrome Skull & Fire Class!
Sept 6-9, 2017


Here's a new twist on skull paintings. Dru will introduce a new black chrome decorated skull project to be painted on metal. He will demonstrate how to capture realistic detail without a lot of fuss. Stay tuned for more imagery of this new class in development!
Special Offer for an Iwata CM-SB airbrush!

Our enrollment special gives you the opportunity to pre-purchase your in-class Iwata CM-SB airbrush at a price far below market value.
Enroll in an eligible class today and check the special offer checkbox  to receive this special:  Purchase your like-new, class supplied, CM-SB for $300  (A value of $481.93 purchased new)

Optical Blending and Warm vs Cool Colors 

If we are going to paint a object, we often need to be able to identify the color of that object at some point. It's not always as straightforward as it sounds, and there are several ways to describe how to identify the color of an object. Read more
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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.
Upcoming  International Classes for 2017

Aug 2-5 Westbank BC, Canada Female Portraits  1 seat left
Nov 9-12 Melbourne, Australia Wildlife:  Golden Eagle - Airbrush Asylum
Nov16-19 Sydney, Australia Chrome Skull and Fire - Advanced Airbrush
Nov23-26 Coolum Beach, Sunshine Coast, Australia
Nov 7-10 Perth Australia Chrome Female Portrait - Advanced Airbrush

New for 2018:  Pre-Raphaelite Painting Class!

Dru will hold a workshop which will explore the re-creation of a beautiful Pre-Raphaelite work from the Golden Age of painting. This class will utilize mixed media, including acrylic and watercolor applied with brush and airbrush on a new special canvas. Watch for updates on this new workshop!
Visit schoolofrealism.com or call Melanie at (803) 635-8060 to learn more
4935 Buckhead Road, Blair, SC 29015, United States
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