One simple supply I ALWAYS have on hand is index cards. There are so many uses for them.
1- tape an index card on your work so you can periodically check your spray pattern (great tip for newbies and are just getting use to your airbrush)
2. You've spent hours painting a lion or wolf and are apprehensive about ruining the painting when putting on the whiskers? Take a couple index cards and an x-acto knife and cut a whisker in each card. Paint dots where the whiskers go than tape your index card to the dots and paint your whiskers! By varying the angle and length of the whiskers plus flipping the cards nobody will ever guess you used a mini-stencil.
Filter your water-based paint by taking a pair of nylons and cutting out a round patch twice the size of the bottle opening. Remove the cap out on the patch and replace the cap. Now everytime you sqeeze out some paint it will be filtered!!
If you are getting an air leak around your tip, unscrew it and apply a little chapstick around the threads!
MORE TIPS TO COME!!
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