{"id":10665,"date":"2017-03-09T04:08:52","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T04:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airbrush.com.au\/airbrushing-commercial-projects-workshops\/?p=10665"},"modified":"2018-01-23T02:25:09","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T02:25:09","slug":"advanced-airbrush-celebrates-25-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.airbrush.com.au\/airbrushing-commercial-projects-workshops\/advanced-airbrush-celebrates-25-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Advanced Airbrush Celebrates 25 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

This month Advanced Airbrush celebrates 25 years in business!\u00a0<\/strong>
\nWe can\u2019t believe it has been so long. We\u2019ve met so many awesome people and made some lifelong\u00a0friends.\u00a025 years has brought so many memories, and we\u2019d like to share some of them with you –<\/p>\n

In 1992, we began running our business from home in Erskine Park. Wayne Harrison, Principal Artist and Director, was already well known from the Panel Van era from his previous company “FANTASY MURALS” located in Blacktown. Our first projects included producing billboard skins and general signage. Many of these projects were large scale, measuring up to 18 stories high and approx. 15 metres wide, and often required numerous replications for distribution throughout Australia. This was the time before the era of Digital Printing where each replication had to be airbrushed and painted by hand.<\/p>\n

With a successful start, we were able to move the business to a factory in Mt Druitt.\u00a0Some highlights during these years were Wayne\u2019s first overseas competition AIRSTORM \u201995 in Atlanta USA in which he won 1st Place, which in turn inspired us to create the very first Airbrush Expo in 1998. It was created with the desire to unite local airbrush artists from all around Australia and New Zealand in support of each other. We drew over 500 people, included workshops, seminars, and attendees from as far as NZ. Soon after, we created the National Australian Airbrush Association Inc. and the Expo itself developed into a Darling Harbour event with the support of top airbrush artists, sponsors and overwhelming attendance.<\/p>\n

In 1999, after 7 years at Mt Druitt, we took the next step and bought a factory in Minchinbury to accomodate the growth of our business. It served us well for the next 7 years, with the development of new highlights in our career including airbrushing the 2000 Sydney Olympics sponsorship buses, and airbrushing Virgin Blue’s\u00a0full fleet of aircraft (over 80 planes). To this day, Wayne Harrison is the only artist to have ever painted the Virgin Maidens on every Virgin Blue aircraft. We also began attracting international clients, helping the development of Malaysia\u2019s first professional airbrush business with Wayne painting\u00a0an Air Asia aircraft as their first major project.<\/p>\n