• Measurements:

    12" x 24"

  • Medium:

    Pencil

  • Surface:

    Bond Paper

 

I am in the process of designing an award winning look for my new website. I have been utilizing the same website features for a number of years and have just decided to try a facelift using new images, styles and formats-- including the use of more CSS and absolute positioning and maybe some html5. As always the idea is to showcase my ARTWORK, but I also want to include more descriptive verbage as well which may help you in understanding why certain things have been done in certain ways.

 

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1959 PONTIAC BONNEVILLE

The following 3-step sequence shows the complete process from initial reference photo selection to preliminary pencil sketches to hardline ink drawing; continuing through to finished acrylic rendering. The first big chore is to locate a fine, all American-steel and chrome auto from the late 50's era. I personally believe 1959 was the automotive design golden year. That was back when the cars didn't all look like they were cut out with the same cookie-cutter. This will be a study of 50's advertising art.

  • Measurements:

    12" x 24"

  • Medium:

    Pencil & Ink

  • Surface:

    Tissue Paper & Overlays

    (otherwise called Trash Paper in the industry)

     

    In my magical world... it's also called: Analog Layers

The original pencil sketch is taken and reduced to a hardline-outline in ink which delineates values and edges. The shading sketch is kept for later referral. (Never throw your old stuff away.) Each time you revise a sketch you have the opportunity to modify and manipulate the image and refine it into a better finished rendering.

  • Measurements:

    12" x 24"

  • Medium:

    Pencil, Ink & Acrylic.

  • Surface:

    0.25" Masonite

This drawing has been reduced to a simple hardline sketch and transferred to a piece of 1/4" Masonite that's been primed with several coats of Gesso. I usually start in the areas that I consider to be the hardest, so that I can throw the whole project away and start on something else if it proves too tough! All that beautiful chrome!

  • Measurements:

    12" x 24"

  • Medium:

    Acrylic.

  • Surface:

    0.25" Masonite

This rendering was produced without the aid of an airbrush and that may have been a mistake. I think it could have been much more 'realistic' if I had used one, however this one was planned without intentially. I am planning a painting of the original Batmobile, and will use an airbrush in that art. The

background was left a crisp white also. This was pretty tough to do even using masking

film, because of all the pencil work and masking tapes, etc. When completed, I

applied a semi-gloss varnish and even that became a difficult task because of the

lint in the brushes! Each little piece of trash had to be picked out for three coats of

varnish.

 

Now... a little something about the car!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was called a "Wide Track Body" because it was fully 64 inches wide. The widest in the

industry. 389 V-8 at 260 horsepower Stickshift or 300 horsepower with optional Hydra-

Matic. It was the first year for the split grille. A year before Pontiac debuted its Arrow Head Emblem replacing the venerable Indian Chief logo.

1984 HONDA V-65 MAGNA

  • Measurements:

    20" x 30"

  • Medium:

    Acrylic

  • Surface:

    Cold Pressed Illustration Board

One of my first single-action, airbrushed renderings. I remember it well because I had not

yet determined that I should not start airbrushed paintings that are over four square feet

of fine detail masking in size! Scheesh!!! Took me forever to complete! I began this just

after one of my favorite college professors told me that you could not spray acrylics

through an airbrush very well. This whole rendering was produced with a limited color

palette (about 6 colors including black and white)  and all pigments were Student Grade

(what a waste!)

If you want to see this bike run...  check out the 30 second                commercial below.

Engine: Shaft-driven, 748 cc DOHC 4-valve liquid cooled V-4 linked to a

  6-speed transmission.

  Speedometer shows a 150 m.p.h. (240 km/h) limit.

  Curved front disc brake grooves, dual piston calipers, and TRAC anti-drive.

  Redline is 10,000 r.p.m. with hydraulically activated wet-plate clutch.

Compression is high, and the stroke is short.

I am making plans to scratch-build a bonna-fide 1916 Sopwith Triplane just like this one except with one more wing thingy on the top... keep watching for updates. This will be a rather large project.

This plan was drawn by: Byorn Karg?st?r??om or something or other in 1968. (Note to self: Always print name legibly on drawings.) But this was for a radio controled scale model and I want to work on a full-sized craft, so I will need much more detailed plans. I have located a set of original factory drawings and am making arrangements to get them. Since the Sopwith was built by the United Kingdom, I wont have to deal with another language. (Now you know why I didn't choose the German built  Fokker Dr.1. I will also be using some poplar in the construction. I have yet to locate anyone with a poplar

tree that they are not

using any longer. If anyone

reading this just happens to

own a large poplar tree, say,

20" in diameter or larger and

about 10 feet long or longer,

and would like it removed;

please give me a call.

Because the yellow-green, tulip-shaped, upright

flowers are found high in the tree canopy, they are

often difficult to see. Look for yellow to cream flower

parts on the ground beneath the trees; then look up

to see the flowers.

 

 

 

Then call me to come and get it.

Tulip Poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera)(or Yellow Poplar) is the state tree of Tennessee and is a prominent member of the deciduous forest replacing shortleaf and Virginia pines.

 

Tulip Poplar is

recognized by its

tall straight trunks,

its tulip-shaped

flowers, and its

distinctive leaves.

1916 SOPWITH TRIPLANE