Art & Inspiration ///////Friday Art Show12_02_2016\\\\\\\

For delinquents...
I can’t believe I have been absent 3 weeks! Well let’s catch up.


1955 Buick Del Ray, GM Motorman “Dream Car” ( that never was)

 

Did some fancy cropping of the “T’bird and a Redhead” illustration...



And, for the heck of it...

Re-POP!

 

Sweet illustrations, Mark!
Let's indeed play catch up, cause I've been absent 3 months!


The Throttle Queens

 

Awesome stuff, guys!

The missing link between the coupe and the sedan: the 203 fleetline, alias Miss March from the 2017 Red Hot Tiki Calendar.

 

I've missed 3 or 4 weeks...glad to be back. OK, I have a few for this week:

Just your basic everyday killer green coupe...



A little top-down romance with the squeeze in a a killer '59...



A big-finned deuce pickup I dreamed up, might make for a cool show-rod Roth thingy...

 

I'm hardly NEVER absent. Mostly re-runs these days, however.

'Stay FAS'

 

Exit only, acrylic on canvas 100x150cm

 

..."Golden Rays of Hope"...

 

..."Pawnee Ponder"...

 

Love it Rob

 

Thanks! Right back at ya, Steve

 

Good Morning, Love the Art work today. We took a little road trip to Virginia Beach last week. I promised my grandson I wouldn't do the HAMB and he wouldn't do video games. lol I'm sure that you guys had a great show as always. So we built this sand sculptor for F.A.S. Ron...

 

A few photos from the 2016 Atlantic Nationals in Moncton, New Brunswick...

 

I drew this yesterday for Hemi Dave. He's building a 55 Bird Gasser, with a Pete Jackson Injection system. He asked for some cool names for it. This is one I thought of. Ron...

 

Hey Ron,
Cool photo...the beach in the winter at 50 degrees...that is being a tough family. (even the little one in that cool stroller...) But, in shorts, too...wow... I am impressed. Although I do wear shorts during the winter here in sunny, So Cal. But, 50 degrees !
Jnaki

 

fall 1966
Hello,

There was this factory, sponsored, surf team being started in So Cal. I am not a club/team joining type of guy, but the free stuff was timely. So during my final years of college back home in So Cal, I thought that it would be fun to be on that team. Did I say free clothes and “stuff?” I remembered my old 40 Ford Sedan Delivery from back in the last years of high school in Long Beach. I wanted a new one just like that cool orange 40 with a few new murals and flames. Being flashy brought in more sponsors and more free stuff to fit the lifestyle. (It was a crazy time) The first edition drawing of this sedan delivery was orange and just pencil flames, but for some reason, it looked funny and I spent all day erasing that color/design off.

Since our 40 Willys was supposed to be painted yellow, it was fitting that this 40 sedan delivery was the same color, but with the addition of the blue and red flames. (the colors have faded somewhat from 1966) By this time, the real short boards were flooding the scene and would fit perfectly inside of the delivery cargo area without having to take out the rear window. Of course, an SBC would have replaced that old flathead that burned the “cheapo” reclaimed oil on those long trips.

Even this car without the rear door window and several short boards sticking out would have looked rather cool at the beach parking area or going down PCH Highway 1. But the short boards would stack and tie down neatly on the inside racks, behind the seats with the rear door closed. No more exhaust fumes in this time period…just cool cruising to the beach.

Jnaki

The surf team did not work out as the sponsor demanded too much stuff and would not allow us to be individual stylists/surfers. The 40? Just a pipe dream…(another orange 40 Ford sedan delivery actually did get purchased and customized 4 years later) But, those modified, college class schedules allowed us to be at the beach almost every day before and in-between classes. (even during the winter) Besides, LBSC was only 10 minutes away from Seal Beach/Sunset Beach and 20 minutes away from the powerful, Huntington Beach Pier waves. Beach access at its finest…

 

Missed the show the last couple of weeks. Great show today!

 

What a great start to Friday.
Thanks to all of you.
Later,
Dick

 

...finished up the gasser board I'm donating to the benefit art auction at the Retro Rewind show Jan 7th in Dubuque Iowa,...both are framed now.

 

...here's a 55 I just finished

 

My contribution for the week....I picked up a set of pencils so will start messing with shading a bit with softer pencils.

 

Looking good! Looking back at early sketch books I found a lot of stuff that if I'd of added more mid and dark tones would have looked better but I was to scared to mess it up because it looked so good already!

One of the ways I got over that was experimenting with erasers and eraser guards.

I would do all the line work and then rub in an even tone of graphite across the whole car and then erase the lighter spots. It made it pretty clear where the darkest stuff needed to be and kinda got me over that hump.

Really enjoy seeing your stuff each week

 

Not sure which of these I've posted but here are some paintings I've been working on for Mcphail's shin dig this Sunday

Hopefully finish this one today!

 

out of the gate super start, keep on trucking gang

 

Here are some pieces I did for a friend's business.

 

Jigger. I like that Apollo GT. It incorporates the best qualities of a Ferrari meets XKE vision.

 

Is that acrylic or watercolour?