Mike Learn Airbrush and Design
Boulder, Colorado
From the flat desert to the Rocky Mountains, Mike Learn has done some traveling for both business and pleasure. Mike Learn Airbrush and Design recently moved from Tempe, Arizona, to Boulder, Colorado, to a much bigger shop to get bigger jobs. At the age of 12, Mike picked up an airbrush to paint model airplanes he built as a hobby. He then began airbrushing T-shirts for fun and a few bucks. As a budding young artist, he was strongly influenced by the talents of Frank Frazetta, Stan Lee, Salvadore Dali, H.R. Giger, and Ed "Big Daddy" Roth. In high school he worked in body shops in the Erie, PA, area where he grew up. He learned about fabrication and prepping and was given the opportunity to paint murals and graphics on his friends' cars, Sportsters, old Triumphs, and other types of abandoned British motorcycles.
Mike came to the realization that his life would find direction through his passions for airbrushing. He moved to Arizona and worked at a small paint and body shop. For the next nine years (with a short stint starting the paint department for Titan Motorcycle Co. of America), Mike worked with Dean Calderwood and helped build his small three-man operation into the business people know today. But after a loss in the family he took a trip to Colorado and found a new 3,600 square foot shop, complete with paint booth. His product line is booming with a total of nine instructional DVDs and dozens of other airbrush items. He is painting bikes, guitars, album covers, and the occasional vehicle, but getting his hands on a custom bike and airbrushing something crazy is what he likes the best.
For more information, contact Mike Learn Airbrush and Design at (303)-828-0370, and to see more samples of his work visit www.mikelearn.com
For products, visitwww.learnairbrush.com