The Friday Art Show

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1950 GMC/Chevy panel van RAKE

Hello,

In 1982, we were a young couple with a small toddler. Our neighbors asked us if their older son and our son could have a sleep over with a local teenage baby sitter. The object was to be one of the first ones to see the scary Friday the 13th movie. My wife and I are not “Horror” movie fans, but to keep up the neighborhood friends mode, we agreed to go with them to the movies.

So, we went in the theater with other “horror movie” fans and were jumping back in our seats at almost every dark scene and instant change to something gristly. Not a good moment for us. But, we kept up the friendship with the neighbors for 25 plus years and that was fine. The movie was not fine…

We did not want a larger panel van for our beach adventures, either…Yikes! We need a station wagon with lots of windows…

Jnaki

But, as I was drawing my version of a 1950 GMC/Chevy panel truck for a surf mural/flames combination, a hockey mask was in movie scene we were watching that evening. It instantly, it gave me the chills. So, to work it out of my brain, I changed the scallops to a dark theme, including a hockey mask. Yes, the flames were supposed to be "water drop" flames, but ended up being a moving, red blood drop flames...Yikes !!!

The store was a supply house located somewhere in So Cal where hockey is being played…like the Anaheim Ducks Hockey Team. So, I told myself as the changes were made. In my mind, and on my laptop, drawing the art took the darken room scare tactics away for awhile… YRMV


1950 GMC/Chevy panel van chopped

Note:
There was a “Wolf Moon” in the dark skies for a few days, too. And the little pack of neighborhood coyotes were going a little crazy with their gatherings and “howling.” Suburban living at its finest… ha!

 

Reminiscing about the old days

 

Preliminary sketches I made for the paintings I posted a couple weeks ago.

 

Coolest photo I’ve seen in a while
Not mine
From our own @guthriesmith
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/bought-a-51-ford-on-purpose.1339566/page-24

 

Playing around - "re-painting" my car again...with the famous flames...?