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Happy Friday

Looks like I'm going to get the party started ....

 

Rockin' Kurtis Bob..

Tweaked last week's late look At An Angle on An Anglia-

 

'Lil Coffin 3
I love the original and the recreation of this car.
It was the first real custom rod I ever saw when I was 13 years old.
After all these years the car remains an absolute classic!

 

Happy Friday! Have a great memorial weekend!

 

I did a painting and a pencil drawing of the same subject this week. Did the painting first and this pencil after.

BR

 

Grand slam guys! Great start Bob, That's a beaute Spoggie, Breathless Gary
and Neal, that's a gas, man!
Got nothin' on my end right now Bernie but I'm sure it's up to your natural high standards...
will see it later I reckon...

Some aged ones...

 

Another cool fantasy Bob.
Spoggies... real cool and super color!
Super fun Neal!
Cab, that's very classy!
HR Dirty... neat Chebby!
Thanks Jigger!

 

True story. Last year I approached John Mearns at ACME Speed Shop and asked if he wanted to buy this design from me and sell it as an ACME shirt. His advice was to print it myself and that I should become a vendor selling at car shows like he does.



I said "really, how?" And he said he would help. I asked "wouldn't we be competitors?" He said "No man, it's a community, all the other artists and sellers are cool and it's really a lot of fun." So he told me what to buy, what not to buy, gave me names and addresses, put some killer graphics on my traveling trailer of printed shirts and gave me a list of shows to attend.

So here it is a year later and we're both going to be at Santa Maria selling our shirts this weekend. I'll be selling my original design above and he'll be selling this one which I designed for him later...



So the moral of the story is that if you're going to ask John Mearns to buy one your designs, be prepared to completely change your career direction, spend all your hard earned money printing a bunch of shirts, buying a pop-up booth and a trailer to put it in and then hitting the road like a traveling circus troupe and never look back.

 

....Ahhhh, there it is Bernie,... nice sketch!

Nice work Hot Rod Dirty's!

Bo knows etching! Great stuff man, love the energy.

 

I think this is my third or fourth time posting in the FAS but this just keeps getting better and better. Loving the gasser sketch! Reminds me of what I would scribble in my class notes back when I was still in high school! Nonetheless, here are some sketches I did this week.. Still practicing on proportions.

One of my Coupster project's final rendering. Still a few variables yet to be determined but basically what I'm shooting for it to look like.


And a sketch for a "customer" I guess of his OT-style Austin.


I don't own a scanner.. Yet.. So thanks for bearing with me everyone.


iPhone - TJJ App

 

Nice!

I worked on this one today.

 

did a photo shoot with my chic and my truck last monday

 

I also got some pics from our local cruise night in Roseville Ca

 

Wow!

 

Great start so far! I did this one for an automotive art show this Saturday in phoenix. I hope the quality of the photo is ok. My cell is my only camera and computer right now.

 

My pal Juan @ Deadend Magazine made me new business cards for my trip to Santa Maria.

 

We are taking some new paint STIX to Santa Maria.

 

My homage to Dick Giordano. Not my art, but it is something I have wanted to do for quite a while. This is my first painting on canvas so please go easy on me. It's not quite finished but is close enough to get the general idea. Hope it fits in here. Thanks.

 

Just finished another one.

Kinda a mixture of each of the '49-'51 Fords.


iPhone - TJJ App

 

Looking great so far guys I've been trying out a new technique called Cinemagraphs recently here's a couple from a London to Brighton run last weekend. Hidden in with some regular photos.

 

Skywolf want can't you do, comic strips now cool art...Rod.

 

wow that is incredible

 

Great show so far folks. I haven't posted much lately...too much OT stuff. I did a couple of logos recently that I think fit in....







Everyone have a great Memorial Day weekend.

 

This one is for all the Stray Cats fans.

 

Back to film this week. Hope you enjoy them. Thanks for sharing all your great creativity, it&#8221;s a true inspiration. Slim

On this Memorial Day, take a moment form the beer and BBQ and remember those who fell.

We cherish too, the Poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led,
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies.

 

Now that is too cool!

 

57 Corvette ~ Bob - top notch as always
Sunshine14 - great looking rod & lady....cool photography
skywolf - love the painting
bugfink - love it...
Hot Rod Dirty's - love those 54 Chevy's

Spoggie, GaryC., fortypickup, LOWCAB, Jigger, BOMONSTER, TexasSpeed, grim - great stuff...

 

The Hell Raiser - digital drawing using a Wacom tablet & ArtRage Studio Pro ver 3.0...