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AIRBRUSH, from multi color to black graphite on bas-relief
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PAINTER-COLOURIST AND HIS ART.
"First there are three primary colours, then their three complementary colours. The colourist is the virtuoso of subtractive synthesis, playing with the chromatic colour wheel to infinity. Then, out of compulsion, the artist returns to the basics: three primary colours, which he adds and mixes to give birth to black".
The adventure of the colourist painter is a long process in which, like a musician, the daily practice of the chromatic circle is the only guarantee of success.
This ordered representation of colour, sister of the rainbow, which has it's origin in only three colours, cyan, yellow and magenta, is the mother of all the others. The beauty of the world's colours, which the artist Xavier Boully is always trying to achieve, is born from this minimalist origin.
In his search for the artistic absolute, Xavier Boully had to find the instrument that would give him the best and fairest representation for the future creation of his chromatic symphonies. The tool that would allow him to apply layers of pigment, with finesse, subtlety, transparency or opacity, on flat or gradient tones.
Beyond the brush, the airbrush seemed to him to be the only option capable of fully responding to his desire. It's ability to spray a medium on a flat surface or layer by layer under the strong compression of the air, with variations in density, seduced the artist who chose it as his primary working tool. And so, little by little, year after year, his technical and artistic mastery grew, making Xavier Boully one of the virtuosos of airbrush art in France.
For a long time now, many great names in art and luxury have called on him for his mastery of colour. Without knowing it, you may have seen some of his works in a painting gallery, a fashion show, an exhibition site or even on the street. But his name has always been absent, because his work has always been anonymous, working behind the scenes, in the shadows... a strange paradox for an artist of light...
And it's from this paradox that the urge to create a personal work of art was born, at first on the margins of colour. It took shape in large paintings in which only black and its various shades of grey were expressed on the white of his canvas. And then, later, in a parallel form, colour and volume appeared in space, as if to prove that one cannot completely deny oneself.
But behind this work there is a whole universe, often romanticised and fantasised, 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...
