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Airbrush Action

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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. March-April 1991.

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. 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.

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Healthcare & Medicine – Dentistry +++

Oct 16

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The Dentistry folder is a subdivision of Healthcare & Medicine and contains 55 items, about half of which are pamphlets or booklets.

If plastic lip retractors, optical saliva ejectors, friction grip burs, serrated beak forceps, gold, porcelain, and cement sound like things you’d want inside your mouth, then these images are sure to make you smile:

“Union Broach Dental Specialties”, 1972.

“Union Broach Dental Specialties”, 1972.
Dental Tools

“Union Broach Dental Specialties”, 1972.
Dental Tools (Forceps)

“Union Broach Dental Specialties”, 1972.
Children’s Favors for Dentist’s Offices

From “Mould Chart for Dr. Myerson’s Teeth”

From the Veri-Chrome “Mold Chart” Booklet

Palataline Pamphlet Cover

From the booklet “Permadent Preparation and Impression Procedure”, 1958.

Dental Restoration
From “Arabian Nights in Dentistry”, 1941. Prepared by John J. Nevin.
Art by John Schuster.

Dentures
From “Arabian Nights in Dentistry”, 1941. Prepared by John J. Nevin.
Art by John Schuster.

From “Arabian Nights in Dentistry”, 1941. Prepared by John J. Nevin.
Art by John Schuster.
How dental anatomy affects the appearance of the facial structure