The Automotive Art Thread

[Robert Coats]

Post 'art' images of cars; maybe not photos, but illustrations, paintings, etc.

Here's a sampling of Bruce McCall's fantastic take on American Iron:

[rcooled]

[fred cook]

If you want a nice original art drawing of your car or your favorite car, contact Dan McCrary in Durham, NC. He did a great piece of Alfa art for me years ago and is still in the business. As a plus, his art has gotten better over the years.

[Robert Coats]

More Bruce McCall:

[herr_oberst]

Those are awesome. McCall nails the zeitgeist of car marketing in his illustrations.

[Robert Coats]

Originally Posted by herr_oberst

Those are awesome. McCall nails the zeitgeist of car marketing in his illustrations.

He's done a series on little known warbirds that is similar, and I believe one of "Fighting Busses of World War Two"

[javadog]

Here’s one I painted in 1975. My first painting. It was painted in an art class I took in high school, at about age 15. A painting of the Vega top fuel funny car owned by Barry Setzer and driven by Pat Foster in 1972. One of the quickest funny cars of its day. Acrylic on canvas, roughly 30” x 50”.

As it turned out, acrylic was a poor choice for the medium. I actually only had about 40 minutes each day to work on it and oil paint would’ve been much easier. Since acrylic dries so quickly, it was impossible to blend one day’s work into that of the previous day, which made large the areas of the canvas difficult to paint. Never used acrylic again.

[IROC]

Originally Posted by javadog

Here’s one I painted in 1975...

That is astounding. Very impressive.

[Rusty Heap]

Artistic impression of my rock crawling side x side.

[Scott Douglas]

Don't know if this meets the requirements of 'art images' or not. Let me know and if not I'll delete it.
It's a photo of a picture I have hanging in my living room. It is a water color version of a photo I took of my old 912 that a late friend made for me.

[Sarc]

You can't have a thread on automotive art without mention of AF/VK:

[masraum]

Not exactly the same, but I thought (and still do) that the art in CarToons magazine was really cool.

[Robert Coats]

Originally Posted by Sarc

You can't have a thread on automotive art without mention of AF/VK

Awesome! Here's a site with hundreds of their images:

https://fitz-art.com/

[rusnak]

Originally Posted by javadog

Here’s one I painted in 1975. My first painting. It was painted in an art class I took in high school, at about age 15. A painting of the Vega top fuel funny car owned by Barry Setzer and driven by Pat Foster in 1972. One of the quickest funny cars of its day. Acrylic on canvas, roughly 30” x 50”.

As it turned out, acrylic was a poor choice for the medium. I actually only had about 40 minutes each day to work on it and oil paint would’ve been much easier. Since acrylic dries so quickly, it was impossible to blend one day’s work into that of the previous day, which made large the areas of the canvas difficult to paint. Never used acrylic again.

Wow, that is fantastic! You should paint some more stuff.

[javadog]

Originally Posted by rusnak

Wow, that is fantastic! You should paint some more stuff.

Thanks. I have about a dozen automotive paintings out there in private collections. Haven’t painted in a while, going to paint a bunch of stuff for my current house. It likely won’t be automotive related artwork, more likely will be homages to my favorite artists.

[jcommin]

Originally Posted by Sarc

You can't have a thread on automotive art without mention of AF/VK:

Amen - these guys were awesome. Most of their work show no person ever looking at the car.

[herr_oberst]

When I was in Art school, I was lucky enough to have an instructor named John Killmaster for a semester. I was lucky in the sense that I realized I would never make money in the art world - most of his students were already at an Art Center of Pasadena level, and I was scribbling with crayons on the wall in comparison. I eventually found a niche in commerical printing so I was able to have a career around creatives in spite my limited artistic talent.

In the late 50's early sixties he was doing illustrations for the Detroit Big Three. He later moved to Boise and began instructing at BSU and doing fine art and public art commissions.

https://autouniversum.wordpress.com/2020/08/25/the-atmospheric-automotive-illustration-of-john-killmaster/

https://boiseartscene.com/blog/john-killmaster-full-text-artist-sit-down

[asphaltgambler]

Originally Posted by jcommin

Amen - these guys were awesome. Most of their work show no person ever looking at the car.

Exactly which was illustration / marketing genius. Their take was the car was integral to the fun / upscale moment, but not the core focus. No one in advertising up until then had thought that way.

[javadog]

Longer, lower, wider. Those guys in that era were masters at rendering fairly undistinguished cars into something that the public thought looked cool. Photographs of the car would’ve been much less effective.

Illustrators are a different breed than artists and their craft is dying out.

[HobieMarty]

My kind of automotive art!!! I used to have this blacklight poster when I was a kid.

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