Blair School of Art Reviews

Blair School of Art Reviews

Customer photo review of Classroom in a Box:  The Sunlit Eye
Michael D.
Dru your teaching method is outstanding. Most complexed piece I've done, with Dru, easy right. Kit was perfect. Will recommend to anyone that wants to improve their skills. Thanks Dru.
Classroom in a Box: The Sunlit Eye
Customer photo review of Dru Blair: Airbrush - Beginners Aug 31 - Sept 3, 2017
Anita G.
I have learnt a lot from the airbrushing class and feel very confident. Dru is an amazing artist and a dedicated teacher. I would love to come back again and would recommend to everyone.
Dru Blair: Airbrush - Beginners Aug 31 - Sept 3, 2017
Customer photo review of Classroom in a box: Eye kit
Shawn M.
Even know I have been airbrushing for quite some time, I stil went through all three phases(beginner, intermediate and advanced). I am intrigued by photo realism and I think this a start on my new path with an airbrush. My wife had got me a week at any airbrush school of my likes so I am going to pick Blair School of Realism. Thank you and hopefully see you soon
Classroom in a box: Eye kit
Customer photo review of Dru Blair: Airbrush - BeginnersAugust 11-14, 2016
Tim M.
From never having touched an airbrush to the skull I was impressed. The class was well structured and at times intense. I had the pleasure of having excellent classmates and wonderful help during all phases of the instruction.
Dru Blair: Airbrush - BeginnersAugust 11-14, 2016
Customer photo review of Dru Blair: Airbrush - Advanced Portraits </b><p>October 11-15, 2017</p>
John R.
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...
Dru Blair: Airbrush - Advanced Portraits </b><p>October 11-15, 2017</p>
Customer photo review of Classroom in a Box: 'Stargazer' kit - $99.95 Pre-Order for October Shipping
Granger P.
The kit to draw "Stargazer" is fantastic! The video is very complete and Dru's explanations are very clear. All this allows a very good result! Thank you Dru for this beautiful Classroom in a Box.
Classroom in a Box: ’Stargazer’ kit - $99.95 Pre-Order for October Shipping
Customer photo review of Classroom in a box!  Hair kit Pre-order for September Shipping
John R.
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...
Classroom in a box! Hair kit Pre-order for September Shipping
Customer photo review of Dru Blair: Airbrush - Portraits SOLD OUT </b><p>March 21-24, 2019 </b>
Alan A.
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...
Dru Blair: Airbrush - Portraits SOLD OUT </b><p>March 21-24, 2019 </b>
Customer photo review of Classroom in a box: Eye kit
Alex M.
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...
Classroom in a box: Eye kit
Customer photo review of Dru Blair: Airbrush - Portraits SOLD OUT </b><p>March 21-24, 2019 </b>
Darrell W.
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 ...
Dru Blair: Airbrush - Portraits SOLD OUT </b><p>March 21-24, 2019 </b>
Customer photo review of Blair Stencils  - hair & lashes bundle
Ryan B.
Referring to the personiperson reviews the thing is that this isn't necessarily meant to be perfect size for things. For example you would rarely if ever, happen to have a portrait where the eyebrows work perfect, but rather to get eyelashes in quick etc. Meant to be creative with it, if you think outside the box just a bit, there are unlimited possibilities.
Blair Stencils - hair & lashes bundle
Customer photo review of Classroom in a Box - Giger Portrait
Ryan B.
I took this class in person and what an amazing experience! This class was so much fun and I learned how Giger went about creating his masterpieces. I've taken 7 Dru classes and this may have been my favorite one! But classroom in box is perfect because you can work at your own pace. I highly recommend! Thanks Dru in putting out such a killer classroom in box!
Classroom in a Box - Giger Portrait
Customer photo review of Classroom in a Box: 'Stargazer' kit
Ambrose A.
Second time for me with this tantalizing "Stargazer" kit and eventually I want to do more versions of it...so exciting....I do have some improvements to do next time as I went easy on myself in some ways and should have given the ship and water more details but next time I can when I am more used to the airbrush. Love the Stargazer theme so much and I believe anyone would also.
Classroom in a Box: ’Stargazer’ kit
Customer photo review of Classroom in a Box: 'Stargazer' project (no paint or tools)
Shirly A.
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...
Classroom in a Box: ’Stargazer’ project (no paint or tools)
Customer photo review of Classroom in a Box: 'Golden Sunrise' kit
Shirly A.
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 ...
Classroom in a Box: ’Golden Sunrise’ kit
Customer photo review of Classroom in a Box: Textured Skin kit
Tom J.
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 ...
Classroom in a Box: Textured Skin kit
Customer photo review of Blair Stencil -Biomechanical Set 2 medium size
Yohan M.
These biomechanical stencils are the best. I've been trying for years to find something like these. I've spend many hours cutting out my own designs with an X-Acto blade and they don't even come close to these. If you love biomechanical like I do, get every biomechanical set from Dru. I have them all and it's totally worth it.
Blair Stencil -Biomechanical Set 2 medium size
Customer photo review of Dru Blair: Airbrush - 3 Day Virtual Flaming Terminator Skull workshop+4
Scott L.
The only thing Dru Blair might do better than airbrushing is TEACHING airbrushing! Highly recommended! An all around great experience~
Dru Blair: Airbrush - 3 Day Virtual Flaming Terminator Skull workshop
Customer photo review of Blair Stencil - Tree 1
Ryan B.
Both the tree 1 and tree 2 are fantastic. There's all kinds of possibilities, along with incorporating other stencils into them, or making up something quickly to freehand off of.
Blair Stencil - Tree 1
Customer photo review of Classroom in a Box: Skull project - (no paint or tools)
Yohan M.
Love this piece. I went a little dark but that's how we learn. This is classroom.i.a.b # 8. I learn something new from everyone of these and it helps so much. Dru has even took time to answer my many emails. Thanks Dru you rock.
Classroom in a Box: Skull project - (no paint or tools)
Customer photo review of Scratchable Airbrush Paper - Double-sized sheets
Elyse G.
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...
Scratchable Airbrush Paper - Double-sized sheets
Customer photo review of Classroom in a Box: Skull project - (no paint or tools)
Javier C.
It is a very simple technique to learn on a surface of excellent quality synthetic paper, you can learn exactly what Dru wants to teach you. A totally recommendable workshop.
Classroom in a Box: Skull project - (no paint or tools)
Customer photo review of Classroom in a Box: Celestial Wolf kit
Ken B.
Using the techniques in the Celestial Wolf video, I decided to try a Nebula picture. Quite pleased with the results. Used this as a practice piece before starting the Wolf.
Classroom in a Box: Celestial Wolf kit
Customer photo review of Blair Stencil - Black Box Bundle  43 Stencils
Thaddeus S.
The box is a lot larger than expected. It is jammed packed with lots of useful stencils of various sizes. The stencils are freshly cut as there is cut residue on them, which is nice. I can not wait to use them.
Blair Stencil - Black Box Bundle 43 Stencils
Customer photo review of BLR Trigger: Blair Low Rider™ Airbrush Short Trigger
André G.
Sou André Grafia do Brasil , sou artista aqui gostei do gatilho só achei que acabamento nao ficou bom a esperava uma case que não veio , mas nada disso impede a performance que é muito boa , fiz um review no meu canal do youtube para meus amigos do Brasil link https://youtu.be/hzJGsIsriUI
BLR Trigger: Blair Low Rider™ Airbrush Short Trigger
Customer photo review of Iwata CM-SB
Thomas H.
I have different airbrushes. Each one has its own qualities. My favorite for doing the finer art is the iwata cm-sb. The control and creativity just isnt there in my other ones. Great product, looking forward to using it for many years.
Iwata CM-SB
Customer photo review of Classroom in a Box: Skull kit
Matt S.
This kit was both challenging and a whole lot of fun. The instructional video that accompanied the kit is great. Very informative, thorough and light hearted, which made it so much easier to complete.
Classroom in a Box: Skull kit
Customer photo review of Dru Blair: Airbrush - Portraits SOLD OUT </b><p>March 21-24, 2019 </b>
Sheena M.
Classes are lead back and fun. I learned so much during both classes I attended. I plan to try to go back every year for a new class. Can't wait for the next one!
Dru Blair: Airbrush - Portraits SOLD OUT </b><p>March 21-24, 2019 </b>
Customer photo review of Classroom in a Box: Skull kit
Joanna W.
I liked this project even though I'm not a skull fan. But it was great for practicing control of transparents and I loved doing the color shift at the end. Thanks for the chance to follow your great instruction and I hope to get another opportunity to come to Blair School of Art again..
Classroom in a Box: Skull kit
Customer photo review of Classroom in a Box: "Mountain Scene" lite version
Pascal G.
This Classroom in a Box: "Mountain Scene" is really interesting. It's well explained by Dru and the result is really realistic. Thanks a lot!
Classroom in a Box: "Mountain Scene" lite version
Customer photo review of Male Portrait in a Box - Lite Version
Denis B.
No it s not perfect , way to dark , but what I ve learned during the process and the confidence it gives you is totally worth every dollar spent and more ! I ll do this project again on the flip side and compare To my knowledge, Dru is the best to simplify steps that looks so complicated to achieve. He ll take you step by step and help you avoid mistakes before they happen
Male Portrait in a Box - Lite Version
Customer photo review of Blair Stencil - Iris Texture Set
Lex M.
I paint with airbrush , I’m just a beginner, it’s great to use your stencils because they have great detail, thanks for your great service. Lex
Blair Stencil - Iris Texture Set
Daniel M.
What an amazing tool. With the upgraded trigger and spring it has allowed me to have complete control when working on fine detail work. The side cup allows for a better viewing angle which I really appreciate. If you want the best I highly recommend getting one.
Takumi Special - Custom Micron Airbrush with Blair SoftSpring and Low Rider Trigger.
Customer photo review of SharpenAir
Kiriakos M.
Worked pretty well. There’s still an ever so slight bend in the needle but doesn’t seem to affect my painting. Very happy with the product and the service of the e-shop. Will recommend you to colleagues for sure.
SharpenAir
Customer photo review of Dru Blair - Monochromatic Workshop Jan 10-12, 2025+2
Joanna W.
As a virtual class, it was wonderful! I would have loved to have gone to Charleston. Maybe next year, I'll finally get down there. ♡
Dru Blair - Monochromatic Workshop Jan 10-12, 2025
Customer photo review of BLAIR SoftSpring
Therese R.
Soft spring works amazing and eases hand fatigue incredibly; making it easier to paint for longer periods with extreme comfort. I won't use any airbrush without one now!
BLAIR SoftSpring
Customer photo review of Dru Blair: Airbrush - 2 Day Virtual Gold Metal Skull workshopMay 22-23, 2021
Mieczysław F.
It was a great time for me. I learned a lot of new things in the field of realistic airbrush paintings. I recommend to everyone.
Dru Blair: Airbrush - 2 Day Virtual Gold Metal Skull workshopMay 22-23, 2021
Customer photo review of Classroom in a Box: Skull kit
Michael W.
Its amazing! The classes are very detailed, an look forward to doing more on line classes. It's very economical way to learn from the best in the industry. An cant wait for more ,I'm self taught airbrush artist . Only wish I had access to this kind of knowledge years ago.an thanks to Melanie for all your help. Michael weaver myrtle Beach sc.
Classroom in a Box: Skull kit
Customer photo review of Classroom in a Box: "Inferno"
Freddie F.
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...
Classroom in a Box: "Inferno"
Customer photo review of Classroom in a Box: Skull kit
Cecilio C.
I am fairly new to airbrushing...and this classroom was a lot of fun with lots of information. The tutorial video that Dru and his staff supplied was very easy to follow. I would definitely recommend this tutorial to anyone that is looking to improve there skills in airbrushing .. Looking forward to the next classroom in a box and also hope to attend one of his more in depth classes in the near future .. Thanks Dru....
Classroom in a Box: Skull kit
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