Friday, February 21, 2003

rrr-rrr-rrr ... That's about the sound a compressor makes with an airbrush attached to it. Wonderful - how nicely that fits with the Radebaugh link! Here's a website about Airbrush History. And another one, not less interesting. Mind you, I still have two DeVilbiss Aerographs just next to me on the shelf. Perhaps I should get a new compressor. And inks. Or acrylics. Or ... maybe not. Think I'll stick to Photoshop and Apple. And a good old Magic Marker every now and then. 10:12:48 PM     |

Broken Promise. From 1930 to about 1950 Art C. Radebaugh airbrushed The Future we were promised. Hospitals in space, giant submarines, underwater cities, amazing cars, planes, antigravity homes - This is a truly fantastic exhibition. Go and have a look, it's definitely worth browsing. Radebaugh, another forgotten artist? Thanks to losthighways, he now might be remembered. "... he became a skilled proponent of the newly invented airbrush, and was featured as an airbrush star in the 1938 Paasche Airbrush Co. catalog. Airbrush was the right tool for illustration at the moment when streamlined moderne was all the rage, and Radebaugh's airbrush made possible his most enduring works, the covers of the annual issues of MoToR Magazine, 1935 through 1938 ..." The Exhibition: THE NEGATIVES portal will introduce you to Radebaugh's world the way we found it. All but two of the negs have been made positives, colors adjusted by chance, by choice, or by default. AUTOMOBILES takes you through designs for Chrysler/Desoto/Dodge, the legendary annual issue covers of MOTOR magazine and misc. cars of the future. ADS shows a working illustrator hard at work. SYNDICATED looks at a weekly cartoon strip that Radebaugh drew for regular public consumption. 9:43:51 PM     |