Using just the airbrush and some hot wax, you can create a really cool effect. For this effect, I have used a 400 x 200 image with a white background. Make sure you have white selected as your foreground color. For this example, I used Sylvan bold with a point size of 72. Do not de-select the text.
Big fonts work well here, as they allow alot of texture to show through.
Now for some airbrushing. You should have something like the image to the left. Don't worry if the colors have bled into each other a bit. The next two tutorials show you variations on this effect.