Art & Inspiration Early Friday Art Show

DANG!!! You folks are stupendous! Here's a Woodward Ave. T-shirt design I'm inking now. This and another should be printed by the end of the month.

 

40% Hot Rod + 60% Dragster = 100% Bad Ass!

Competition coupes were unusual to say the least.
A chopped up rod body on a dragster chassis.
The 60's produced some cool machinery!

The photo is the mystery car that I used for inspiration.
From "Rodding & Restyling, July 1959"

 

Been really busy this week.A bike or two and a vintage fire truck today.The pics of the fire truck are on my phone and I still haven't figured out how to down load them.One of the bikes was a 1930 H-D VL.Stripes are double maroon and single metallic brass 1-Shot.The other is Process and Reflex Blue.See ya at Billetproof Detroit!

 

My Dream Car...
is the theme of the HAMB Art Challenge
currently in progress. Here's what I did.

 

holy shit you actually ride that thing? wow! i couldnt even tell that it had tires. it looks like spokes straight into a rim. is the rim rubber?

 

Cool mr. Stinson! Gary, that truck is close to my dream vehicle. You nailed it!

 

I've thought about posting in these threads for a while, couldn't find the Friday thread a few weeks back though (hence my PM to you J.Norwell).

don't know if you guys are interested in Australian stuff. Here's a few shots from a big wrecking yard I found a few years ago and went back and visited last year:











have a great weekend. Almost time for a beer here.

 

Nate....Very cool, definitely not goofy...this is just the kind of thing that kids see at the market and may be their only exposure to the car hobby, rodding etc. Those same kids may just get bit by the same bug we all were and someday become HAMBers...When I was a little tyke, my parents we not car enthusiasts, but they were artists and as such, would always buy me the latest Cartoons magazine and encouraged me to draw cars....Now I do it for a living and I love what I do. If it wasn't for Cartoons being sold at my parent's choice of grocery store, I may not have ever become a car designer...Nate, you may never know who you will influence with your work here.

 

Many thanks to you and Mr. Norwell. High praise, indeed, coming from two of the best there is!

Bill Stinson

 

...finally made it out to a show & a cruise night and got pics of some of my stripin'....some new, some old

 

I was admittedly drunk when I drew and posted this.

 

...and here's a 57 White bus I lettered & striped last week...

 

....and some outside stripin' from the Autowonderland show in Ottawa last weekend

 

....and a little "aged" lettering I did last week

 

Nice fridge painting, Corngrower and that's a cool ass bike ChopperOlli

Just finished this one for fellow HAMBer, John Mearns (Acme Speed Shop)


Shop Girl
22" X 30"
Oil on Canvas

 

Ubermustang... GREAT WORK! Good color use, What is that, Watercolor, guash, acrilic... on board.. smooth board? Ill board? Scool board.. any board.. were you bored?

I like the look it has.

JD

 

Great show this week guys as always I played around with a few things last night so here are a few things from me for the week.....





if anyone is going to billetproof roll by the booth and say hello

 

I'm always amazed by the sheer talent around here guys! Makes me proud that you let me hang around!

 

MMMMMMMMM Cadillacs

 

"Shop Girl" is my lovely wife. This was from a photo taken the day we were tearing out the interior of our 36 3-window. You know the one.

Aint she sweet!

I have 4 originals from the Great Uber, soon to be 5. Give him a call, he can paint it!!!

 

I did this piece for my buddy Jamie Geekie.



Not to worry, the 15" black steelies with white walls and bullet caps are in the truck bed.

-And

 

The rim is made out of spited steel tube and tire on it is 1" solid O-ring rubber.

-Olli

 

Cool, I have small DrPepper truck too



We made lettering whit Robin B, who is posting here often too.

-Olli

 

sv i - thats the garden i want to grow
nate - cool POP display all i ever get to do corrugate displays for holds diaper bags

 

And, That rocks! Is that Photoshop or Painter? I'm digg'n your avatar too!
Nate, cool POP! Ubermustang, very classy! Nice work Rollie and J-sin!

 

Some bugs in my rootbeer video yumm.
http://woodgraining.com/photos/odds/bug.wmv

Mesh render



Jdee

 

Great show everyone.
Uber'stang, at first glance I thought that was a photo! That's good stuff.
AND,... good to have you back, love the truck.
Gary C. Nice Hot Rod.


Here's a cleaned up detail sketch of one I'd posted a couple weeks ago. Hope to have time to complete the drawing it works with by the 14th.

 

Photos by Seattle photographer Winnie Westergard

Pinstriping by my mentor Donn Trethewey.

All business, hard run, paint chipped and tarnished magnesium...Wish I owned it!

One of the best 'Chute tails in '65 (photographer unknown).

Neighborhood kids keeping my first chopper in shape!

 

Here's a couple new ones from me.