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30/07/2026

🔺SHOWTIME: ALEC AT WORK PART 2🔺.. and a short break for our family furry pal!

I almost forgot to shoot more vids for the „Making Of.“ Apologies for the missing steps! I just blended in some colors with the airbrush. Still woking with the scalpel and color pencils.

🚨Just like over the last few weeks, when it’s crazy hot outside, I sometimes have to interrupt my work. It’s sooo warm today, our biggest furry friend needed a shower!
Since I am currently working on this detailed fur desing, I thought it was a perfect match 😄
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29/07/2026

🇨🇭 ALEC AT WORK: A VIEW BEHIND THE CURTAIN 🇨🇭

If you’ve seen my previous vids, you already know the drill: NO WHITE used here!

To get the fur right, I always sketch in the hair direction first. Super crucial step – otherwise, it just looks weird.

For hand made art with real colors, check ALL our previous designs.

More tomorrow, stay tuned!

27/07/2026

🇨🇭AIRXESS SHOW CASE 🇨🇭

😲The Spooky Spot!

There was a time when we used that special color for all kind of designs.
Here it was another good occasion.
The color only visible from a certain angle!

Desing by Alec for Andreas Brülisauer.
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24/07/2026

When, after 32 years and thousands of designs, the interest in hand-painted goalie masks is still going strong. Check out this super nice interview by Andrea Branca.

On the main pic, you can see the guys responsible for these art pieces: Marco working on the new mask for Gilles Senn and the hairy guy Alec, working on the mask for Gian Graf.
Both serious and concentrated as always!

In the back you can spot the new mask for Viktor Östlund, the helmet for Wendy Holdener and some others. Many more to come -

Thanks a lot Andrea

Alec:
Alessandro Alec Voggel

Dal primo lavoro realizzato quasi per caso nel 1993 alle creazioni indossate dai portieri sino ai massimi livelli mondiali. Il fondatore di Airxess racconta arte, tecnologia e amicizie nate attorno alle maschere dei portieri

26/06/2026

🇨🇭late tbt AIRXESS SHOW CASE, Alec at work🇨🇭

We had already used thermochromic pigments in previous mask designs, but they were the perfect fit for Nolan Schaefer’s mask!
When Nolan came to our studio in Bern, he asked for a striking red cross on a black background. „It needs to pop,“ he said. An easy task, Alec thought —
until Nolan added the real challenge: he wanted very personal psalms on the mask, but they had to remain hidden.

Alec suggested temperature-dependent colors. On the ice, the background stays black. But in the warm locker room or at home, the black pigments turn transparent, revealing the psalms. To top it off, Alec made the text look like it was chiseled into stone. Nolan was blown away by both the idea and the final result!
So, when you see photos of him wearing the mask back in 2015, you now know there is a hidden secret.

🚨Note: We recently deleted several older vids due to strict music copyright rules (many „royalty-free“ tracks are actually for private accounts only). We will be reposting some of them soon—this time with sillier, copyright-safe sounds, whether you like it or not!
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-Commission: Nolan Schaefer
-Design: made by Alec
-Mask: RXS, made inhouse (before we sold the production)
-Hint: check out the cross ear holes we made! 😎
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24/06/2026

🇨🇭VIEW BEHIND THE CURTAIN, Alec at work

Well over 30 years ago, I learned this particular technique: working with the white of the background. It doesn’t matter if it’s paper, canvas, or the hockey masks I’m working on.

Max Gabl, a matte painter at CBS Studios (!), taught me all the painting essentials I still know today. By the way, check out his work for Star Trek, Hulk, Kill Bill, and many more—he created the matte paintings. Today, of course, he does it digitally.

Layering white over other colors doesn’t always yield a good result. White highlights on faces can look horrible.
To keep your colors crisp, try working with the background.

19/06/2026

🇨🇭BEHIND THE CURTAIN, ALEC AT WORK🇨🇭

PART TWO,
the Capricorn, the snow, the clouds … :
Some simple effects how to paint details. You just need patience, the customer a good budget 😅

As you can see, WE LOVE DETAILS 🥰

🚨Keep in mind, we write down the details with the customer. No scetches. The composition we‘ll do on the fly during painting! That trust from our customers is the key to get super creative.

If you wonder what will be on the opposite side:
Neptun, the see, a crab, a ram, a fish … a killer design.
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🔊Brush, airbrush, pencils, paper, masking tape, real colors …
—-> a one of a kind design, for Andreas Brülisauer. 😎
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17/06/2026

🇨🇭BEHIND THE CURTAIN, ALEC AT WORK🇨🇭

Part one, the mountain:
Some simple effects how to paint mountains, or that particular mountain.

More to come —-> Part two, the ♑️ Capricorn ….
Stay tuned.
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🔊Brush, airbrush, pencils, paper, masking tape, real colors …
—-> a one of a kind design, for Andreas Brülisauer. 😎
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11/06/2026

🇨🇭ALEC AT WORK🇨🇭

😲 In our last post we wrote about details.
Check these here: welder without and with the sparks!
And the details on the heavy welder jacket, the imitation of fabric. 😮
Without bragging, Alec could go even deeper into details, but on the other side there is a wedding couple, made like on a Polaroid photo, that part in matt finish (sorry not allowed to show) and some other elements all over that welder helmet. We had to be in the budget 😎

We dig the result 😍
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🔊Brush, airbrush, pencils, paper, masking tape, real colors …
—-> another one of a kind design.
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09/06/2026

🇨🇭BEHIND THE CURTAIN, MARCO AT WORK🇨🇭

In our designs, every little detail matters. Especially when creating fur. You have to be very patient. The result is always impressive. 😎
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🔊Brush, airbrush, pencils, paper, masking tape, real colors …
—-> another one of a kind design.
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