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Airbrush Action
Since 1985 Airbrush Action has been teaching artists how to satisfy clients that go in for the Kenny Powers aesthetic. This fine magazine includes tips, tricks, step-by-step how-to’s, competitions, and interviews with airbrush artists. Seemingly every variety of airbrushed material is covered: t-shirts, cars, trucks, buses, helicopters, giant lobster statues, magazine ads, snowmobiles, pre-photoshop photo retouching, medical illustration, toy packaging graphics, fake marble walls, leotards, pleather jackets, bowling pins, bicycles, caricatures, fingernails, hair, prosthetic puppets, and fine art paintings.
The SVA library has nearly all of the Airbrush Action magazines released between 1988 and the present. Feast your eyes.
Airbrush Action. July/August 2002.
Airbrush Action. August 1992.
Airbrush Action. September/October 1993.
Airbrush Action. March/April 1988.
Airbrush Action. September/October 1989.
Airbrush Action. October 1994.
Airbrush Action. May-June 1989.
Airbrush Action. March-April 1988.
Airbrush Action. July-August 1992.
Airbrush Action. July-August 1992.
Airbrush Action. March-April 1991.
Airbrush Action. March-April 1991.
Airbrush Action. January-February 1993.
Jozef Sumichrast
Airbrush Action. January-February 1993.
Jozef Sumichrast
Airbrush Action. July-August 1992.
Airbrush Action. May-June 1993.
Jan Strnad & Richard Corben
Jim Henson’s Creature Shop
Airbrush Action. July-August 1994.
Jim Henson’s “The Dark Crystal”
Airbrush Action. July-August 1994.
Jim Henson’s “Dinosaurs” Puppets
Airbrush Action. July-August 1994.
Airbrush Action. January-February 1994.
Airbrush Action. January-February 1990.
Airbrush Action. May-June 1994.
Airbrush Action. March-April 1993.
Airbrush Action.
Airbrush Action. January-February 1991.
Airbrush Action. May-June 1994.
Airbrush Action. May-June 1994.
Airbrush Action. May-June 1994.
Airbrush Action. May-June 1994.
Airbrush Action. January-February 1990.
Airbrush Action. November-December 2002.
Steve Vandemon
Airbrush Action. March-April 2005.
Airbrush Action. July-August 1993.
Airbrush Action. September-October 1994.
Airbrush Action. November-December 2002.
Airbrush Action. May-June 1993.
Airbrush Action. July-August 1992.
Anatomy – Nervous System
The Anatomy folders contain approximately seven hundred images and have the following arrangement: Anatomy, Anatomy – Animals, Anatomy – Eyes, Anatomy -Hands, and Anatomy – Nervous System. Like the other Anatomy categories, Anatomy – Nervous System consists of photographs of both the interior and exterior, microscopic views, medical illustrations, and creative (non-technical) illustrations.
© 1947, 1981, 1986 Anatomical Chart Company. Chicago, Illinois. Anatomical Illustration by Peter Bachin.
Dissected Neurons. Life Oct. 22, 1971. “Subtle beauties, baffling complexities.”
[At the Synapse, a sudden chemical invasion] “This painting, which is based on the actual specimen…depicts how a signal gets from one neuron to another. Here an axon (the big horizontal shape) forms two synapses, the first with a dendrite offshoot (vertical trunk on the left) and the other with the dendrite itself (right).” Life. October 22, 1971.
![[Succor and support from the gluey glia] Glia Cells. "Greek word for glue, the sticky glia's chief function seems to be to service neurons." Life. Oct. 22, 1971.](https://svapicsandmags.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/glia-life-oct-22-1971.jpg)
[Succor and support from the gluey glia] Glia Cells. “Aptly named for the Greek word for glue, the sticky glia’s chief function seems to be to service neurons.” Life. Oct. 22, 1971.
Man Holding Brain
“The interior view of the base of the skull (seen though a wide-angel lens) shows the openings in the bone for the spinal cord and the two jugular veins (bottom), and the two optic nerves (center). Life. Oct. 1, 1971.
© 1983, 1986 Anatomical Chart Co., Chicago, IL.. Illustrated by Ernest W. Beck, medical illustrator, in consultation with Harry Monsen, Ph.D., Professor of Anatomy, College of Medicine, University of Illinois.
Thigh Nerves (left) Spinal Cord (right). Life Oct. 1, 1971.
© 1991 Anatomical Chart Co., Skokie, IL. Art Direction by Christine D. Young and Medical Illustrations by Carl Clingman, in consultation with Kevin E. McKenna, Ph.D., Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois.
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