New Airbrush Getaway Classes a Success In Vegas.

April 2, 2008 - PRLog -- House of Kolor’s Art of Painting and Alan Pastrana’s Automotive Art  
and Illustration Techniques were big hits at the February Airbrush  
Getaway in Las Vegas.

“The class was great,” said Tim Meyer, who attended House of Kolor’s  
new course conducted by Brian Lynch. “The amount of knowledge that  
came over was astronomical. Brian is just superior in his knowledge,  
and he wasn’t product-biased. He told us to use what’s best for us,  
but he prefers House of Kolor from his experience. I’m associated  
with a bigger shop that uses PPG paints mainly, and they would say to  
stick with PPG because the supplier said so. Now, I understand the  
difference between the paints. Brian covered it from the ground up,  
from the finish to the clearcoat. He was a great instructor.”

The consensus of the 12 students echoed the same sentiment. Ed Star,  
another student, added, “I had a whole different vision of what  
applying paint to vehicles was all about. You watch some stuff on TV  
and they don’t show you everything; they don’t show you the secrets.  
But, Brian showed me everything. He taught me a lot about controlling  
and adjusting the spray gun and how to apply the paint, how the  
chemicals come together, and which paints to use for graphics and  
which to use for detail work. I already recommended the course to a  
few friends, and that guy Brian is a genius!”

“I’m amazed Brian Lynch was able to teach at all,” explained Cliff  
Stieglitz, Getaway director. “He had a high fever for a couple of  
days and at times I didn’t know how he was still conscious. Brian is  
one tough guy.”

“I didn’t want to let the students down,” explained Lynch, “and I’m  
on a very determined crusade to make what is wrong right in custom  
painting. Although the pace could’ve been better had I been healthy,  
I think it flowed very well. People completed simple but detailed  
projects on their surfaces (metal blanks and a mailbox) painted, and  
the stuff came out amazing.”

Robert Carroll would definitely recommend the class to others. “Brian  
Lynch is a top-notch instructor. He’s extremely knowledgeable. I  
wanted to learn more about using big guns, and I enjoyed the one-on-
one instruction from Brian. He got into so much detail and  
information about the paint technology, and that alone was a huge  
resource. The class helped me to become a better custom painter. I  
painted some cars before and ran into some problems. I have a job  
lined up in a week or so, and after taking HOK’s class, I’m extremely  
confident that I’ll be able to lay down the paint perfectly. You can  
read it in a book or watch a DVD, and just attend the Getaway, but if  
you combine all three, you really have a three-way punch going on.”

Students were just as passionate about Automotive Art and  
Illustration Techniques with Alan Pastrana, Honorio Reynolds, and  
Darryl Strader. Student Thomas Puentes, found that “the three  
instructors fit together very well. Alan had the business background,  
Honorio had experience and knowledge of airbrushing, and Darryl had  
quite a bit of technical advice. I thought it was a really good  
class. I’ve been to about 12 Getaways, and this course changed the  
way I worked, primarily in rendering shadows and shading. A lot of  
people use a transparent black for their shadows, but with Alan’s  
color theory showed how to use complimentary colors to bring out more  
of the gray tones and present more realistic shadows. At the  
Getaways, you always learn something new. No questions about that.  I  
recommended the class and Alan’s Hip Hop Art DVD.”

Anthony Negreta agrees. “I really liked it a lot it. Alan’s class was  
very well organized and structured; everything was outlined. I  
learned a lot more about the color wheel exercises, and even things I  
learned previously all came back. This was my 3rd Getaway and every  
time I learn more, and each time is more beneficial than the last. In  
fact, Pastrana’s class made me more motivated than ever after a  
Getaway, and I’ve been painting every day since. The project we did  
with the eagle and Hip Hop character was really along the lines of  
what I wanted to do and I achieved it. Hope to see you next  
September! It’s great to be in an atmosphere with all these great  
artists, too.”

Alan Pastrana, the lead instructor, was very proud of the outcome.  
“The students were very receptive to what I was teaching them, and  
they enjoyed it very much,” Pastrana stated. “They actually seemed  
surprised that they learned so much in such a short amount of time.  
In fact, they reminded me of how eager to learn I was when I started  
20 years ago. We’ll continue to evolve the course and change it up a  
bit, so each time we’ll bring something new to the table. I really  
look forward to continuing to teach the class.”

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