The complete airbrush book. [Applications of the airbrush; Equipment and materials; Basic techniques: working setup, airpainting, touble shooting, flat wash, spotlight effect, checkerboard effect, frisket-making, soft-edged effects, rendering basic forms, use of drawing & drafting instruments, transparent & opaque color techniques, mask-making and application, drybrush stipple and splatter; Rendering objects; Photo retouching: newspaper, advertising, corrective, mechanical; Cleaning and maintenance of airbrush]

New York : William Penn Publising Corp., 1955, 1955. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. [1st edition] ; 159 pages ; black and white illustrations ; 29 cm ; LCCN: 55-14221; OCLC: 2495933 ; LC: NC915.A35; Dewey: 741.29 ; light orange cloth with silver designs ; no dustjacket ; Contents: Applications of the airbrush -- Equipment and materials -- Basic techniques: working setup, airpainting, touble shooting, flat wash, spotlight effect, checkerboard effect, frisket-making, soft-edged effects, rendering basic forms, use of drawing & drafting instruments, transparent & opaque color techniques, mask-making and application, drybrush stipple and splatter -- Rendering objects -- Photo retouching: newspaper, advertising, corrective, mechanical -- Cleaning and maintenance of airbrush ; "The most comprehensive reference manual on the airbrush ever published - packed from cover to cover with more practical know-how and show-how on operating procedures and techniques. Designed as a complete visual instruction course for the commercial artist, photographer, teacher, art apprentice and student, it will prove equally valuable to art directors, advertising production men and all others who can profit from an intimate knowledge of this important medium and its uses." ; artworks by "Mad Men" advertising period artists Ray Grouch Carl Paulson, Jean Carlu, Alberto Vargas, Alexey Brodovitch, Walter Bomar, Joseph Binder, Donald Brun, Alexander Leydenfrost, Karl Koehn, Rolf Klep, John W Hauser, Frank D'Amario, Ruth Hilf, Weimer Purcell, Otis Franklyn Shepard, Howell Clark, Sam Berman and Walter Dorwin Teague ; foxing to endpapers, water stain to back cover; else G.