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My latest book is now in the bookstores!
"How to Master Airbrush Techniques"
Joann Bortles 4th book
"How to Airbrush Techniques "
ISBN:0760323992
JoAnn's New Book "How to Master Airbrush Techniques" is now available at any bookstore or you can get a personally signed copy here.
Unlike JoAnn's other books, this book completely focuses on airbrush techniques. From learning what airbrush, paints, and equipment to buy, learning how to use and handle your airbrush, this book is a from A to Z guide on how to airbrush. JoAnn uses simple techniques that will get you great results fast. From the person who has never picked up an airbrush to the airbrusher that wants to freshen up their technique and learn a few tricks, this book will be the best tool in your studio. It features easy exercises for beginners so you can ge great results from the very start. It also shows how to create a vector drawing, how to set up and use a stencil plotter/cutter. Using this book, you can learn techniques to airbrush nearly any kind of surface. Create fur effects, metal effects, skin tone, leather. Learn how to use stencil layers to create 3D effects. This book deals with real world airbrushing. I try to help with nearly any problem the aitbrush artist will encounter. This book also has the most extensive troubleshooting quide that has ever been published.
The artwork of Crazy Horse is featured in the Jan/Feb issue of Ironworks
magazine on this sweet litle bare metal bobber built by Jim Bortles..
The latest show winner here at Crazy Horse Paint and Carolina Harley Davidson. First Place at the Charlotte Easyriders Show.
The American Iron magazine project bike, we worked on last year, will be featured in that magazine next month. This month check out American Iron for a feature on the the process JoAnn used when she was painting the bike. More pics of that will be posted very soon also. It was a team effort that involved some of the best painters in the Carolinas, including Crazy Horse Paint, Collision Bike Works and Wayne Springs of Little Rock Auto. But the crowning touch was the insane pinstriping of Ryan Young of Indocil Designs. www.indocilart.com. Ryan is the premier helmet painter on the East Coast, working with the best in motorcycle and auto racing, including Ray Everham NASCAR teams. Give him a shout for all your helmet painting needs.
Crazy Horse is currently booking paintwork for the month of May 2007. So if you are looking to get your bike painted for summer, try and make arrangments in the next few weeks as our schedule is filling rather quickly.
Crazy Horse Paint was proud to be a part of The Chopper Chick Crew live on stage bike building team. We built a chopper live in front of a crowd at The Daytona International Speedway in just over 7 hours. Find out more about the Chopper Chick Crew at www.chopperchickcrew.com
Joann Bortles 3rd book
"How to Custom Paint Your Car "
ISBN: 0760323119
How to Custom Paint Your Car
"How to Custom Paint Your Car" is a fairly comprehensive how to book. There are 15 chapters featuring how to paint tradition flames, real flames, ghost flames, truck graphics, pin up girls, tribal graphics and more. There's even a chapter on pinstriping featuring the incredible striping work of Ryan Young. Youll find out what equipment you'll need, and lots of advice that is only learned the hard way, through years of painting hell. So save yourself the years of hell and find out how to custom paint your car the easy way.
And lastly, JoAnn now has a blog on myspace.com. http://www.myspace.com/crazyhorse75 It features photos and blogs about the day to day stuff happening here at our little chopper farm. Well that's it for now! Have fun on the new Crazy Horse site!"
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