The New Zealand Airbrushing Event of the year

The Smits Group in association with Anest Iwata Airbrushes and House Of Kolor Kustom Paints proudly present THE FRASER / VANDEMON CUSTOM ART COURSE.
The Craig Fraser / Steve Vandemon Custom art course will be a full day training course held at the award winning Auto Refinish Training Centre in East Tamaki, Auckland. Participants will learn about the aspects of Custom Painting, Airbrush Techniques, Pinstriping and Tribal Graphics.
These classes will help you to turn your spray painting into fantastic, crowd-stopping custom artwork.
By enrolling you will learn from two of the world’s best custom artists. Fraser and Vandemon will teach you the tricks and techniques that they use for producing their award winning, awe inspiring finishes on cars, trucks, bikes, helmets and every other surface that can be painted.
Let your imagination run wild while you learn the latest airbrush effects using Kandy’s, Flakes, and Pearls. Fraser and Vandemon are two of the industries leading practitioners, so they will teach you the techniques to improve your airbrushing and the basics of great pin-striping.
Educated in Architecture and Aero Engineering, Craig Fraser started Air Syndicate an airbrush studio in Firenze, Italy in 1990. Upon Returning to the U.S., Craig hooked up with Dion Giuliano of Kal Koncepts fame in 1992. Craig is now the in-house airbrush artist, pin-striper, and co-designer for Kal Koncepts. For the past decade Kal Koncepts/Air Syndicate has been a driving force in the automotive, and motorcycle custom paint industry.
Some of Air Syndicate’s previous clients include: “Jesse James” West Coast Choppers, Arlen Ness, House of Kolor, Colorado Custom, Trenz, General Motors, Ford, Daimler Chrysler/Viper, Bones Concepts, Rick Dore, and many others. Craig has been the designer for Kal Koncepts from their first cover feature in 1992.
Steve Vandemon started custom painting back in 1992.  Specializing in custom flames, airbrush art and pinstriping, Steve has done in a little over a decade what many painters take a lifetime to accomplish.
Known for pioneering the “Negative space flame job”, Steve has had his flamed artwork on more covers for Truckin Magazine than any other artist.   Steve is known for taking current influences in the custom industry, and modifying them into his own unique style. 
Steve has worked for, and been the assistant instructor to Craig Fraser with the Airbrush Action Getaway workshops, as well as teaching numerous pinstripe workshops for Coast Airbrush in Anaheim, CA.  Steve is also one of the Team artists for ASET/Iwata, and currently has his own graphics workshop through Airbrush Action magazine. 
Steve’s company ACP, (Absolute Custom Paint) can be found on any day cranking out anything from flamed out trucks, to artistically painted mannequins. Some of ACP’s clients have included Pamela Lee Anderson, Jesse James, and Master Image Customs.  Steve has also appeared on Pimp My Ride, and Monster Garage. 
THE FRASER / VANDEMON CUSTOM ART COURSE will consist of two open classes suitable for people of all skill levels and one advanced class which is recommended for the more experienced airbrush artists and car painters. These classes will be held on April 30, May 1, and May 2 for the advanced day.
Attendance is strictly limited and positions are filling up fast, so please register your interest by contacting Melissa at the Smits Group on Freephone: 0800 227 422.
You can find more information about
Craig Fraser and Steve Vandemon at these
two websites; visit  www.gotpaint.com and www.vandemon.com.  n
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