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PAINTER COLORIST AND HIS ART.
"At the start, there are three primaries colors, followed by their three complementary. The colorist is the virtuoso of subtracting synthesis, that plays to infinity with the chromatic color circle. Then, out of constraint, the artist returns to his basics: three primaries, that he adds and mixes to give birth to the black.."
The colorist painter adventure is a long process where, like a musician, exercising his ranges daily on the chromatic circle is his only pledge for success.
This orderly color representation, sister of the rainbow, that finds it's origin in only three colors, cyan, yellow and magenta, is mother of all others. The world's color beauty, that Xavier Boully, artist, is always attempting to match, is born from this minimalism origin.
In his research for artistic absolute, Xavier Boully had to find the instrument that would provide him the best and the fairest rendering, for the future creation of his chromatic symphonies. The tool that would allow him to apply, on flat or gradient tints, layers of pigments, with finesse, subtlety, transparency or opacity.
Beyond the brush, to him, airbrush seemed to be the only option able to fully respond to his desire. It's capacity, under the strong air compression blow, to spray, with density variations, a medium on a flat support or layers by layers seduced the artist that chose it for his primary working tool. And so, little by little, years after years, his mastering, both technical and artistic, finally grew up, making Xavier Boully one of the virtuoso of the air brush art in France .
Since long ago, many great names of arts and luxury call on him for his color mastery. Without knowing it, you might have seen some of his work in a painting gallery, a fashion show, an exhibition site, or maybe even on the street. But his name has always been absent, for his work was always anonymous, working behind, in the shadows,...strange paradox for an artist of light...
And it's from this paradox that came the urge to create a personal artwork, at first, on the sidelines of color. It took form in large paintings, where only black and it's different shades of gray were expressed on the white of his canvas. And then, later, in a parallel form, color and volume in space made their appearance, as if to prove that one cannot entirely deny himself.
But behind this work there is a whole universe, often romanticized and fantasized, that appears to the eyes of the spectator...
Airbrush painting in many way
"Exercise your eye, the hand will come next."
Leonardo da Vinci
Trompe-l'oeil, customization of motorcycle helmets or bodywork, body painting, these are just a few examples of the use of the airbrush as a tool for artistic creation. This small paint gun, barely larger than a pen, allows you to paint on any solid surface, without any contact with it. This absence of contact, combined with the spraying of pigments, allows the airbrush painter to obtain incredible results, on flat or irregular surfaces or in volumes (helmet, sheet metal, fabric, walls ...).
The operation of the airbrush, results from the interaction between air that has been compressed and a medium. The compression of the air is obtained using a compressor, with filtered and regulated air, which makes it possible, through the cone of the airbrush, the very fine spraying of the medium (acrylic, ink, oil ...).
The coverage of the surface exposed by spraying depends on the distance between the medium and the airbrush. For the airbrush painter, it is the variation of this distance, which allows the realization of a tiny detail (the thickness of a hair), or the covering of a large area for the creation of a background or a gradient. It is this same variation in distance, which allows the creation of nuances, by a more or less dense spray of a pigment.
The professional airbrush painter (also called airbrush painter), in addition to his artistic creativity, must combine technical knowledge and mastery of gesture. Beyond a great control of distance and air pressure, the airbrush painter must master the technique of caches (and stencils), as well as freehand work.
The airbrush painting associated with masks, whether flying, fixed or liquid (acetate, film, cardboard ...), allows great precision in contours and details. Its principle consists in reserving white or already worked areas, to draw irregular edges, or on the contrary, straight or curved lines.The freehand airbrush technique is a direct spraying on the support. It requires a very great control of the airbrush and allows to create a slight blurring of the contours. It is commonly used for fluid rendering: water, flame, smoke, steam...
