Hello again painting fans.
This week I will be continuing with the painting of the 1940 Plymouth. I am using the photo seen directly below. I’ll be using my usual acrylic paints on an 8×10 inch canvas.
When last seen, the painting appeared as it does in the photo seen directly below.
Since that time I have continued to work on the painting.
This week’s changes are few but notable. Out in front, the Plymouth has received its license plate. I’ve kept the letters/numbers simple and unfocused to avoid it becoming a distraction. Far to the rear, distant shrubs have been painted behind my black and gray Mazda. There is now a sense of the distance from the foreground to those shrubs. With these changes the painting is now complete.
The current state of the painting is seen in the photo directly below.
I’ll have an entirely new painting to show you next week. See you then.
Earlier paintings in this series can be seen here.
The cafe is open.
That one turned out nice. I wonder what you will have in store for us next week. No worries. I like surprises.
This past weekend while grocery shopping, I parked in between a 1972 Chevy C10 Fleetside and a Mercedes 300 series that had be of late 1970s vintage. Diesel Mercedes sedans were the rage back then when I lived in California. Managed to get a couple decent shots of both of them. The Mercedes looked like it had suffered a little hail damage, but otherwise looked in good condition. The truck needed a paint job – just grey primer at the moment, but also in otherwise good condition. Always fun telling the kids that I remember when those models were new.
Those old diesel Mercedes live forever as long as they don’t rust. The 1980s S class models go for hundreds of thousands of miles.
Way back in the mid 1960s, my father-in-law had a 180d which he loaned to my wife and I to make a 5,000 trip from Florida to NYC and then out to the midwest before returning to Florida. On the way back south, we ran short of fuel and stopped at a mom and pop gas station somewhere in South Carolina to try to fill up. When I asked about getting some diesel, the old fellow said to me, “Well, just what kind of car is that that burns kerosene?”
Also the little engine shook pretty badly and was hard on motor mounts and exhaust system parts. IIRC, it got around 50 miles per gallon. All things considered, it was a really economical car to drive.