1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:01,580 [car passing by] 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:04,480 [fast piano music] 3 00:00:04,900 --> 00:00:07,200 (Air Force Staff Sgt. Corban Lundborg) I use heavy spray paint when I'm working ... 4 00:00:07,940 --> 00:00:09,640 using house paints, water. 5 00:00:10,100 --> 00:00:12,000 There's no secret formula or anything. 6 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:12,660 I just ... 7 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:16,860 buy up a cheap can of paint and mix it up when I get to location. 8 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:21,920 My name is Staff Sergeant Corban Lundborg, and I'm a combat cameraman in the U.S. Air 9 00:00:21,920 --> 00:00:25,220 Force Reserve, and I run an art business in North Hollywood. 10 00:00:26,500 --> 00:00:27,940 [upbeat orchestra plays] 11 00:00:28,380 --> 00:00:32,840 When I'm painting portraits I like to fill the frame or fill the space of the wall and 12 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:33,880 really take it up. 13 00:00:35,900 --> 00:00:39,800 And I'm working up through dozens of layers, where the first layer is ... 14 00:00:40,780 --> 00:00:42,800 very broad brushed and loose. 15 00:00:43,220 --> 00:00:47,820 And then the next layer will be tighter and tighter until I get to those final details 16 00:00:47,820 --> 00:00:49,080 with a very thin brush. 17 00:00:49,860 --> 00:00:52,280 [orchestra stops, concerned strings begin] 18 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:55,120 Stepping into ... 19 00:00:55,820 --> 00:00:58,320 full time art is scary. 20 00:00:58,900 --> 00:01:02,400 You don't have much of a guaranteed income of any sort. 21 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:06,720 You're jumping into the deep end, and I made that jump after I left active duty. 22 00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:15,420 I was able to stay in the Reserves and that was a way for a little bit of a cushion in case 23 00:01:15,860 --> 00:01:17,400 my art career fell flat. 24 00:01:20,300 --> 00:01:25,120 Being an artist allows me the freedom to really excel in being an Air Force Reservist because 25 00:01:25,130 --> 00:01:31,250 I have the ability to take on different assignments and Air Force projects and set my art stuff 26 00:01:31,250 --> 00:01:33,220 aside and then come back to it. 27 00:01:33,940 --> 00:01:35,960 The two of them really build off of each other. 28 00:01:38,300 --> 00:01:44,110 To overcome early art challenges, I just lived very simply, which allowed me the ability 29 00:01:44,110 --> 00:01:47,880 to be creative really just live off of selling paintings to begin with. 30 00:01:50,260 --> 00:01:51,780 [optimistic strings] 31 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:59,840 A buddy of mine sent me a Craigslist ad, maybe five years ago, for an art festival in Dubuque, Iowa. 32 00:02:00,780 --> 00:02:04,920 I was skeptical at first, but, I pursued this Craigslist ad. 33 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:09,000 That was the first time that I was brought in on a pretty big project where I realized 34 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:11,100 I could really do this for a living. 35 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:13,480 [fast, positive orchestra] 36 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:24,720 [fast piano]