It’s an age thing, as most things are. The thing that was all that when you first became aware of art and the people and tools that make it, sticks with you. It colors your thinking and forms your personal likes and dislikes. For me one of those things is 1970s style airbrush. It was all the rage in so called “commercial art” in my pre-teen years. You couldn’t pick up a magazine or an album cover without seeing ridiculously great airbrush art.
Which brings us to the work of Barcelona-based Mattias Lindström. You don’t find too many digital artists that try to ape the style nowadays, and the artists that used airbrush were early adopters of digital tools and have long since abandoned the style. So, thanks Mattias. Thanks for work that stands on it’s own and succeeds as a throwback to an earlier era.
Thoughts?