Showing posts with label Airbrush. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Airbrush. Show all posts

Monday, February 22, 2010

Cito Gaston is morphing from a Brave into a Pirate right before our eyes!

I came across this negative that is currently up for auction on ebay from The Topps Vault and did a double take wondering what in the world was going on in this picture:


This is the negative that was used to create the 1979 Clarence (Cito) Gaston card:



The negative shows how the Topps artist airbrushed the picture to turn Cito from a Brave into a Pirate for his 1979 card.

What I really like about the negative is that they didn't airbrush the whole picture - they just did enough so that it could be cropped at the shoulders to make it look like Cito was wearing a Pirates uniform, leaving a very interesting and unique looking Pirates/Braves jersey combination on the original negative.