Hello again painting fans.
This week we’ll be continuing with the painting of the 1952 Hudson. The photo that I’m using is seen directly below.
I’ll be using my usual acrylics ona 9×12.
Seen in a period advertisement directly below is a similar Hudson.
When last seen, the painting appeared as it does in the photo directly below.
Since that time I have continued to work on the painting.
The big change for this week is the rust. The car is now seen in with all-over surface rust as it does in the photo. This effect was made easy by the former ochre body color. I painted over the ochre with some thin watery brown paint. The result was instant rust, some 60 years of wear and tear instantly.
The same brown was painted around the window frames, which have now been cleaned up a bit. The windows are now white in anticipation of the changes to come, and for a bit of clarity.
The current state of the painting is seen in the photo directly below.
That’s about it for now. Next week I’ll have more progress to show you. See you then. As always, feel free to add photos of your own work in the comments section below.
Earlier paintings in this series can be seen here.
Paint me a picture of your thoughts.
this is coming along very nicely, l’m interested to see how far and where you take it before you pronounce it finis.
an aside, l know you like to work at a relatively small scale, but your last painting and this one are very easy for me to imagine as really big canvases…like 4′ X 6’…your technique and style would, imo, translate very well to that scale. they both have a scaleless quality about them.
lot’s more work, but it might be fun
Hi dada. I really like small canvases because I feel more in control, and I can finish them in a reasonable time. I think that the prior piece would have been better as a larger painting, it just would have taken years to finish. It can take weeks even with an 8×10. If I could only get rid of the day job… 😉
l understand. reality can be be a harsh mistress.
sorta kinda in the same vein, chuck forsman’s an artist, whose work l’ve admired for years, and although his style is very different…he’s a very capable photo-realist, as well as a supurb photographer…his images, paintings and photographs alike, transcend scale. and he likes to work large. but he works very quickly, and it is his day job.
one hell of an interesting fellow.
you can see some representative things of his here.
He’s done some very interesting work.
another “local” artist whose work l like a lot, and you may find interesting, is tony ortega.
especially his use of color. he works in a variety of mediums and sizes, from small pastel sketches, to huge…like 4′ X 12’…paintings and mixed media pieces.
l should have bought one of his early pieces, he’s unaffordable now.
I like those a lot. There’s a nice consistency and continuity to the colors and forms in his work.
Boran2,
Just a quick drive-by.
Very cool. It seems that you are working more quickly than in the past, for better results.
I`ll have more time next week, to better appreciate this piece.
This one is a bit less complex then the prior one, so things are moving faster. It will be a while before I’ll want to do something like that again.