"My name is Claude HESTIN, I am a self-educated painter, exerting the
practice of aerography since a score of years. This technique is used
on various materials such as wood, the granite, the marble, the sheet,
the fabric, the plastic, fabrics... Aerography is a technique making
it possible to carry out pictorial?uvres using an aerographer. The
aerographer appears himself as a paint gun miniaturized. Its invention
dates from the beginning of last century, its first use consisted in
improving photographs. American artists then discovered it and used it
in the decoration of fabrics and much later in the field of travelling
frescos such as trucks, vans, motor bikes, cars... Its principle of
use consists of a vaporization of pigments of inks on a given basis.
Result offering an active register of effects of light or powerful
flat tints, for purposes of an extreme smoothness. My register: a
range of reasons varied such as portraits of people known or not,
landscapes, but also, of course, animals... "