Busy May-June

So many things..

Sold my Skyhawk painting after the Ohakea airshow. Chap saw it there and rang me up next week and promptly bought it for his Office.
Then I got a commission to draw seven airliners in graphite on a very large piece of paper for the son of a retiring Air NZ pilot. (Thanks to Napier who found he didnt have time to do this)..

Then a magazine editor asked if he could use my PDL Mustang II image as a pull out poster and offered $400. After checking it was OK to use the pic I happily agreed !!

Then I got another commission to draw a chaps car from his partner, the Supra and GTO pic below.
Still a work in progress.

meanwhile prints have been ticking over (the Bulldozer is doing very well.)

and Ive hardly any time to draw the cars I want to draw to refill the stock.

and retirement is rapidly approaching!

Whew.

Big Healey completed

sealed and scanned! ready to deliver tonight. For something dashed off in 9 days its doesnt look half bad!

BT7 progress

been working hard on this.
The actual car colour is a super dark purple. almost black. The commissioner wanted to show that so the sun beating harshly on the top brings out the purple and blues and I hope relieves the black.
Just the top and then some white touch ups to do.. should only be a couple more days.

Big Healey

Have been asked to do a car for a chap who unfortunately has cancer and not too long to live I believe.
The car has recentley been restored for him and the restorer wants a picture to go with the car.
doing my best to get this one done.. time is very short obviously..
Why did I emphasize the front!!! so many grills and lights and holes and spokes AArrgh!

Lawrence pushes Lola

Ripped into a quick pencil drawing based on an old black and white photo of mine from 1975.
It shows a famous NZ race driver (Graeme Lawrence) pushing his Lola T332 race car to the 'pits' at Manfeild race track.

I colourised the car but left the people black and white. a: coz Its really hard to guess at colours for people and b: because it pops out the car as the star.

So thats done now onto a special pic of an Austin Healey as a special favour for an old mate.

and I have to get some aviation pics framed for the Ohakea airshow in a couple of weeks time. That should be cool.

The Airshow!

After the portrait I had to pretty quickly get into another painting as a main piece for the Ohakea air show exhibition at the end of February.
1 solid week really got into it and then I started work again (much to my chagrin!). So another 2 weeks to really sort it out.. but looking good now.

after 1 week

final painting

Portrait finished!

Took some time and I got blocked now and then but finally completed over Christmas 2016.
All ready to be picked up by the commissioner now.

Not exactly motor related (!) but eventually very satisfying.