Blair School of Art Reviews

What a challenge! Great learning experience and just as the title of the class states"Advanced Portrait" With Dru leading you through all the advanced techniques of painting skin pores, textures, hair highlites, mixing colors right on your art work, items that you would normally learn in a "Master's Class" in Europe. Did I mention textures, textures and more textures that make your portrait truly photo-realistic. With Dru's direction and his ability to instill confidence in each of the stude...

Classroom in a Box – Hair Kit I have received my classroom in a box – hair kit, and as always Dru has gone the extra step to to show his great talent with the airbrush as well as teaching us how to use it. The Createx Illustration paint, the exacto knife, the aggressive erasure, the mylar templates are worth the price of the kit alone but then we come to the trainig video. AMAZING to watch Dru Blair create these works and make it look so simple as he explains it with his unique sense of humo...

This has been the best airbrush class that I have personally ever taken. I credit this to Dru's style of teaching. I have taken a few classes from others in the industry and although many are great artists and uberly talented, they do not neccessarily have the ability to "teach" what they know. Dru is not only an amazing artist, but a good instructor. The class isn't just about painting this one thing. He covers more about art, color theory, and things you'd learn in an art class...not just an a...

This was a very effective lesson that indeed helped me a lot with realistic airbrush principles. The package is very well made, with stencils and instructions. Of course Dru take you step by step in completing this project both in black and gray as well as in colors. The informations on the videos are so valuable for any airbrush artist looking for realism. Dru teaches you all you need to know about this lesson to achieve realism. Through the videos you will gain knowledge on how to achie...

This was the most rewarding, challenging, difficult painting class that I have ever taken. With that said I would recommend Dru's classes to anyone who paints, especially with the airbrush. I found the color matching the most challenging, but that is because of the painting background that I have. My work since the class has been so much better than before. If you are wanting to improve your painting skills, or want to pick up the airbrush for the first time, you can't go wrong by taking one of ...

Though I have painted over thirty years, this is the first art lesson in my life and first airbrushing ever. Afraid of the airbrush like many but it has been friendly enough to me and these lessons are great. Dru is an amazing instructor and I look forward to more kits like this, some of which I already have waiting to do before fall. I am glad I started on this one as it could not be more accommodating or forgiving. I did this one twice in a row and they both turned out. Instead of the stir sti...

Amazing lesson that I recommend for virtually anyone aspiring to a much higher level of realism. I had to take a few of my own artistic liberties and stray slightly in my understanding but he seems to allow for that and the outcome can still be as rewarding with a few freedoms taken. At fifty, this is the very first of any art lessons I have ever taken in my life and first airbrush work. I always worked in oils. I guess I was subconsciously waiting for the finest of instructors or no one at all ...

Wow. Wow. Wow! is all I can say Mr. Dru! This project has been so rewarding. Thank you so much for your outstanding teaching. My career up to this point has been working on creating complex mechanical cutaways and only for the most part relying on external reference material of the subject. All of the rendering of the internal bits had to be made up by my imagination. Working on this texture project has totally changed by career path thanks to the wisdom you have provided in the video. The ...

I bought 5 (+1 bonus) sheets of the large 70x100cm paper (along with the airbrush and paint kit) while at the Animal workshop in April 2022. I just finished my first painting (11x14" Geoffory's cat) outside the workshop last month (Nov 2022). I hadn't used my airbrush since the month of the workshop, so needless to say I was very nervous that I might have forgotten everything! Honestly, I couldn't be happier with the results I got and material performance. Everything performed as expected and m...

This was an amazing learning experience! Completed it on a lazy Saturday afternoon, listening to some ACE "How long". Hopefully next time I try it, I'll be better with the technique and transparency effects of the smoke. Got a little off centered on my positioning of the skull, but I've been known to do that with stencil placement. This is well worth the investment to expand your skills and I look forward to the next installment from Master Dru! Thank you for what you do in sharing your invalu...