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Airbrushed helmet magazine feature

Jesper Bram — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 14:52:49 +0000

Thanks to the guys from Pinstriping and Kustom Graphics magazine for featuring A drag race helmet I airbrushed in the latest issue. The progress article on the various steps of the paint process turned out nice.

Chopper flame job

Jesper Bram — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:30:54 +0000

A classic chopper flame job for Ehlers Performance. Airbrushed and then lettered and outlined by hand. On this job the fat white outlines goes with the piping on the seat. Flames has to have outlines. Even just a very subtle outline, that’s ok. But nothing at all just looks unfinished. Not a ton of clear coat will fix that. Speaking of clear. These photos are from before the objects was cleared. I didn’t handle clear coating on this project, only airbrushing, outlining, and lettering.

Custom Painted Drag Race Helmet

Jesper Bram — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:08:18 +0000

Here’s a helmet I recently finished for a drag racing driver. The team car is a Volvo chassis with a giant Chevy engine in it. That’s why it’s called Crazy Volvo and has a combined Chevy-Volvo logo. I did all design, airbrushing, lettering and pinstriping. The driver basically just gave me a rough sketch of the logo idea, and a photo of the car so that I could see the color scheme, and said surprise me.

Custom Airbrushed Car Lift

Jesper Bram — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 01:29:37 +0000

Finished the car lift project this week. The task was to create a city skyline in the sunset on each beam of the lift. Since I had to create 4 similar skylines on each pillar, I decided that the best effect would be achieved by doing a dramatic airbrushed sunset behind a stylized cartoony metropolis skyline. After the masking was removed I added all the window lights, tiny antennas and other details freehand with a brush. I tell you, that’s a serious amount of dots.

This was a co-op project with Morten from, North Side Custom. I called Morten in to handle the initial black base coat of the pillars, as well as assist me on some of the airbrushing and to do the final clear coat.

Custom painted cast on arm

Jesper Bram — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:55:32 +0000

A friend of mine came by the shop today with his kid who broke his wrist. We airbrushed a quick flame job and a small skull on the cast to cheer him up.

Dennis Mathewson Airbrush Workshop day 2

Jesper Bram — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:18:58 +0000

Two great days are over. It was a great workshop. Learned a lot, but more importantly spent 20 hours practicing with the airbrush, and hanging out with some cool people. I’d do it every week if I could.

Here’s a few pics from day two.

Here’s the boards I did at the workshop. Not really showpieces, but it’s all about the practice. Picked up an airbrush for the first time in 15 years a few months ago. So basically it’s going in the right direction.

Disco tiger

A study in multiple light sources

Thanks to Dennis Mathewson, and Kenneth and Michael from Custom Colors for two great days.

First day of the Dennis Mathewson airbrush workshop

Jesper Bram — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:06:53 +0000

Did a million dagger strokes today airbrushing the hair on a white tiger. Not my favorite motif. But it will come in handy if someone asks to have howling wolves painted on the side of a van…hunch hunch. I’ll do it if I can paint a wizard on the other side .

Here’s a few photos from today. No photos of my tiger though. Forgot to take one. But check out the one Dennis did. Thats awesome.

So much looking forward to tomorrow. We’re doing a tiki thing I think. That’s gonna be wicked.