Art & Inspiration FRIDAY ART FEBRUARY 7, 2025

1954 MERCURY NOMAD WAGON
Not the most favorite old car to make into a hot rod or custom station wagon. The 54-56 Mercury has plenty of local Long Beach memories as they were new cars during those times in the old neighborhood, when we were little kids. But a stodgy 4 door into a custom “Nomad” style station wagon? Wow, not only would it not be in 5th or 6th place in popularity rankings, but, as the early surfers needed some classy custom station wagons for their longboards, so, let’s get driving…

Hello,


My wife and I noticed that the whole community of stores now has a RED theme. With the upcoming Valentine’s Day fast approaching, there seems to be a proliferation of “RED” items in a lot of advertising. It seems odd that within our USA proper, advertising seems to generate income from all of us. When a popular season is fast approaching, then the color of advertising changes to the appropriate color. Back in late September, early October, normally the first holiday is Thanksgiving and the fall colors should have come into play.

But, the advertisers and shops know, that Thanksgiving is a one time end of November shot and in the way of Christmas. So, what do stores and shops do? The whole thing turns into red as the principal color. Poor old Thanksgiving is a family affair and yes there is usually one teeny section for napkins or some such dinner items. But, everyone has grandma’s dinner ware and silverware, so not much is shown in the stores.

So, here we are, in the middle of Winter and things are rainy, cold or freezing. But, due to the next money making advertisement, the colorful RED comes back in play. From grocery stores to clothing stores and yes, art supplies stores now have RED as the primary color. (pun intended)

If you are out shopping your lowered rake station wagon may take on some extra rear weight and now, you can see what your custom station wagon looks like as lowered hot rod…

Jnaki

So, get your RED drawn artwork ready… it is one week away. YRMV

 

Gotta love the Mercury, and the Ford wagon's.

 

Good day y’all !

 

Some more "not so fresh" stuff from ancient times.

Flyer artwork.


T-shirt Design.


Cartoon from Street Rodder Magazine.

 

Hi guys!

 

Belated HAMBer’s Happy Birthday @Frogz

A couple quick sketches as I try to get the heavy load done for Autorama.

 

I count 6 aliens.

 

I got 7...might be seeing an extra, hard to keep track.

 

Interesting 37 Ford at our local Cars & Coffee last weekend....Taken with my new Android phone, I'm very impressed with the camera on it.

 

I found 7 also.

 

I only come up with four, Damn I’ll have to use the computer instead of IPhone. The little buggers are sneaky.
Dan

 

Yep, @2devilles got it right, there are 7 aliens, the one that was easily missed, was when you didnt look at the second panel closely.
It was hiding at the corner of the tail gate on the MOPAR truck, it wasn't visible in the first panel!
@rusty1 is pretty clever at hiding aliens in his superior artwork, weekly offering's

 

Always nail on the head @41 GMC K-18.

Don't feel bad, I got six recounted got five and so on.Then read about the tailgate.
Maybe I can sleep tonite
MAYBE @rusty1

 

Hey @Tow Truck Tom
This is truly what your term
"Always Nail on the head" really looks like"
Thanks from Dennis.

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Thanks a lot Jigger

 

...and we've always wondered where Dennis's "over the top" creativity came from...

 

Finally found them all, off to bed now lol
Dan

 

Thank you!

 

No Brain cells were mis-used bent, broke, or busted during my post.
The purpose was to cite @41 GMC K-18 as always ( well regularly ) throwing down
the exact answer to a question that would need more than a simple YEP / NOPE

 

A friend gave me this last night something he had painted