1957 Chevy (Wip)
I Love Working On Grills
I still have to straighten out some lines on the grill but that will take just an hour or so of work and I don't know how long I've worked on this piece. I love working on car grills. Even today with all cars looking alike because of wind tunnels the grill defines the car. My second favorite part of cars are the hubcaps and I will be working on this car tires after I finish this little article. I will be finishing this piece up today. Adding details to the car and deepening the shadows and highlights on the buildings.
I found the car a lot easier to work on than the buildings. I really enjoyed my first painting of a car! I may paint another house just because I struggled with perspective and angles so I don't have to struggle so much with buildings later on down the rode. If someone commissions a painting with a house involved I want to feel confident I can jump right in and not feel so anxious.
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Nice girl/ride reddust.
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Wow that's an amazing looking painting . I love these old vintage cars. My grandfather was a real car enthusiast and he would draw a lot of these beauties. I guess the old cars are a piece of art themselves with their unique designs
Vintage cars were a work off art right off the assembly line. Manufactured cars back in the day were made to last! I think I would like your grandfather very much!
Here I think you would :) Yea old are were built with soul- and definitely with higher quality than we find today
Yeah the factory work could support a family and there was a real community around the factory. Now it's so robotic and all the cars look the same....so soulless...
I definitely agree. Just look at Detroit. Many made a good living And relied on the car industry. The outsourcing and the greed to constantly lower the costs in the end has lead to cars with less soul
I followed this line of reasoning, paying workers less, outsourcing, robots and who will buy the these products when no one is working or is working but can't afford to buy anything.
That is a very interesting and true way of looking at it. Henry Ford indeed was a very wise man
I think he was practical, he had a lot of common sense, sell stuff your employees can afford to buy! He was a genius at breaking processes down into simple steps. I try and copy his idea with my paintings.
another great quote: Dear Quote Investigator: An article on the Economist website recently told an extraordinary anecdote about automation. The rivals in the tale were two titans in the world of automobile manufacturing who took a tour of a newly built and highly-automated factory. The forceful executive, Henry Ford II, and the leader of the automobile workers union, Walter Reuther, both saw many examples of advanced machinery operating at the plant. The words they exchanged brilliantly encapsulated the paradox of automation:
Some say this conversation happened with someone other than Henry Ford but I still love it.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/tag/henry-ford-ii/
Outstanding looking...
Just awesome
Thank's for sharing.
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Very nice :) I love classic cars. Keep up the good work as usual @reddust!
Thank you @gavnthegreat!
We'll soon be able to ride in a beautiful oldtimer, You are an incredible artist, every detail is important and you work so patiently, this is perfection.@reddust
I wish I could fix up an old car like this, I also want to learn how to build wood furniture....lol, they are on my bucket list once we find a place after we are finished visiting my daughter here in Oklahoma.
@reddust,
This artwork reminds me classical age movies that I have watched before! Your amazing painting skills are absorbing the classical standard to this artwork very well! Great work friend! Keep it up!
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I grew up on old movies from 1930s to the 1960s, I didn't really like the 1970s and 60s the much, I didn't find them interesting as a kid. Thank you @theguruasia.
Now that you have darkened/dirtied up all the old buildings, it really makes the cars shininess pop out.
You did so much work on the grill, way long ago, that I thought you would be done with it. But then you went in and really did the blacks of the chrome well. Now it really shines.
Great piece.
I have to fix the building a little, water spots :-(
I like vintage car... thank you @reddust
Thank you @ranielbrainulan
It's look like a click with camera. But it's your ability to paint like this. Nice.
Thank you @amitraj
great artist never left a single task even it very little and still work until satisfied. thanks.