Aerose Artistry, Airbrush Art By Denise Denise Thurston, Grand Prairie, Tx has been airbrushing professionally since 1991 in the Dallas/ Fort Worth Metroplex. Among her accomplishments are many "Best Mural" awards with the top being the "Best Mural" award for the "Lowrider Of The Year". Her work has been seen in feature articles and as show winners in Lowrider, Lowrider Euro and Chevy Truckin'. Denise's experience encompasses many forms of airbrushing. See Denise's artwork at her website at www.aeroseartistry.com

Wreathing The Moon Tee I decided to make myself a shirt this time. Here is how it was painted. This includes how to paint clouds using a torn paper hand held mask as well as freehanding. The man in the wreath was painted freehand after using circle stencils for placement. The vine wreath encircles the night sky giving the illusion of distance and frames the moon and clouds which gives a mystical and magical feel to the painting.

Airbrushes: Paasche VL #3 Media: Createx Airbrush Colors Surface Media: X-Large Jerzees T-Shirt Transfer Media: Soft Vine Charcoal Lighting: Florescent Opaque Projector: Artograph AG100

Step 1 Shirt mounted and taped..	Step 2 The two circle stencils I use for size. I keep a folder full of different size stencils. I use the largest for the outside of the wreath.
Step 3 I use a smaller size for the center	Step 4 Largest circle placed and marked with flo. blue
Step 5 Second circle placed	Step 6 Second circle marked
Step 7 Vine charcoal used to sketch in the wreath. A pint can of auto paint is used to place the moon.	Step 8 I use flo. blu to fill in a little around the wreath and ro make cloud shapes within the wreath. See The Tips below on making cloud shapes.
Step 9 I use flo. yellow to start coloring in. The flo. yellow gives a glow to certain areas.	Step 10 A little flo. pink. I spray lightly to not have any thick paint build up
Step 11 Golden Yellow is used to mark out branches, roots and vines.	Step 12 Light Green is used to start building up the background.
Step 13 Forest Green	Step 14 Light Brown defines the trees and wreath
Step 15 Dark Brown continues to define	Step 16 Dark Blue in the Tree leaves
Step 17 Dark Blue in the clouds	Step 18 Qpaque White builds up the forms and adds details
Step 19 Flo. Yellow and Dark Blue again	Step 20 Golden Yellow
Step 21 Opaque Black	Step 22 Opaque White
Step 23 Golden Yellow, Flo. Pink, Flo. Violet on trees grass and flowers	Step 24 Flo. Violet
Step 25 Dark Brown	Step 26 Forest Green
Step 27 Pulling off the tape	Step 28 Fixing border
Step 29 The all imporant Signature with rose logo
Making Clouds
Tip 1 Tearing a piece of poster board for a cloud stencil.	Tip 2 I keep one side of one half of the poster board with a straight edge to use for a... straight edge.
Tip 3 The straight edge is used to make the horizon line between water and sky in the background	Tip 4 I use flo. blue in the sky
Tip 5 Looking for interesting cloud shapes to fit the background sky.	Tip 6 I use flo. blue to put in the cloud shapes.

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