Airbrush Art Gallery: Tips for Getting Your Art In

Brace yourself folks... the sad fact is, that curators of most traditional art galleries do not consider airbrush art to be "real art:(I can feel myself getting hot under the collar just typing it)

Gallery owners have a pre-conceived notion that airbrush is too easy or a craft to be consider art.... and, let me tell you... if you tip them off that your art is airbrushed, most will laugh you right out the door.

You see, in the "art world" there is a ranking system for what is considered art and what is consider less than art.

Oil paintings are the most highly coveted, then acrylic painting, then water color, then pastels - heaven help you if you are a colored pencil artist, or, for that matter an airbrush artist.

It's sad, I know ... but there is HOPE!

We don't need to start our very own airbrush art gallery.... all we need to do is withhold some information ... which, is nothing like lying :)

If you are talking to a gallery about your art all you have to say is these magic words:

"I paint in an acrylic medium"

Again, this is not a lie!! You DO paint in acrylic and by simply saying those words instead of "I am an airbrush artist" you have jumped up in the "art world" ranking from the very bottom of the pile to a solid second place (dang oil paint).

Even when you meet in person with the gallery to show them your work, avoid telling them that you airbrushed it as long as humanly possible. Of course, if they push you, eventually you will have to tell them - but give your art a chance to speak for itself before you spill the beans.

Until the art world accepts airbrush art as a valid art form (or, again, until the invention of an airbrush art gallery) we airbrush artists are going to have to be ruthless and use any means possible to get our fabulous art in front of the public's eyes!!