Homage To 66

In 1966, Mini Coopers took 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in the famed Monte Carlo Rallye. However the French did not want that to stand and wrongly disqualified the BMC team, putting a Frenchman on the winners stand. Even he refused the prize because of the injustice.

It's not historically accurate, as i do not believe that the cars were this close at any time during the race. It is a homage after all.

PRINT STORE - Now Open

Hey all. My print store is now open.

STORE

Tea Time

Aston Martin DB3 4 Mk III

Boxx Technologies uses "The Great Race"

Boxx Technologies contacted me to use "The Great Race in their ad campaign.

Inspired By my Son

When I was painting the GT40 illustration, my son kept asking me questions about it. I told him that it was built to beat the pants off of Ferrari. At six, he thought that expression was funny. He then asked, "how about their underwear"? I told him, sometimes. He's been telling everyone that the GT40 beats the pants off of Ferrari. Well, I did this one for him. i'm not sure i'll finish it - it has some problems. I'm sure he'll like it though.

The Ford GT40

"Crush those I-type, toe-rag, scumbag, pony-assed, heaps of Junk" Henry Ford

Ford GT

My next subject. The Ford GT40 is probably my most favorite car. The newer GT is just as impressive.

Jaguar D-Type

One of the prettiest race cars of all time.

Painter Demo

Did another process demo in painter.


First - start with a value study. Block in your shapes, considering your light source and your focal point. It is the apple in this image.



Next is the intitial color wash in digital watercolor (simple water brush). I like the digital watercolor because it allows me to paint from dark to light - and because it allows me to tint my value study.



Next,I dry the digital water and then use a custom airbrush to paint opaquely over the image. I push the highlights, color saturation, tints and shades at this stage - trying to keep the most saturated area in the middle values on the light side.



Adding more detail with the opaque mediums. A cool wash over the entire image in digital watercolor is then applied. This is done to unify the shadow areas. Next is to pull back the warm/light side by using digital watercolor set at white.



This could still be taken much farther. It's just a matter of detail now.

This weeks demo

Painted an old monster drawing as a demo on lighting and mood.

Exact Change Only BG

Block-in Demo

Concept Sketch for Project Car

Update

My Prize

My prize arrived today. All the books that Ballistic Publishing has published,

Restoration Update

I had a couple of hours today to work on Argyle. Since I last posted, the front end is off and most of the components are out. I pulled the engine and gearbox today. I won't have much time to work on him during the next few weeks.

Marilyn Final

This was the final on the Marilyn box cover

Jayne

This is the newly released box set cover that I did for Creative Partnership for Fox.

Will Rogers

I was in CostCo this morning - I always check the DVD section for good deals. It was fun to see one of the box sets that I worked on for Menagerie Creative, who's client was Fox.

Exact Change Only

This is a BG for an animated short that I'm working on.