1938 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B
Exploring Art Deco, Part Deux. :-) As with my previous Duesenberg render, I’ve broken up the subject and the scene in this piece to create an interesting composition. Though the car has been split up, and each section has been scaled and/or tilted, it still reads as a single, identifiable unit.
The use of contrast, and opposing colors add energy to the scene. Motion blur (in the background) adds depth, and also implies movement. Lastly, the layered type treatment implies “vibration”… as if the text is being shaken by the movement of the car.
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Throwback Thursday: Split Window Corvette
Completed ~2021, this is still one of my favorite renders, and iterations have found themselves onto my skate decks and (this year) into my Car Cards poker deck’s 10 of clubs.
This original illustration bridges the gap between my early photorealistic digital paintings, and my more recent graphically oriented pieces. See more time-lapse videos here!
Ace High Straight Flush!
Fun fact: An ace-high straight flush (royal flush) is the best hand in many poker variants. It can be formed 4 ways (one for each suit), giving it a probability of 0.000154%.
“Spades” (once known as “Swords”) represents wisdom through life experience, and is considered the highest ranking suit in many games.
This Spades flush is represented by the iconic GT40, 308, Countach, Testa Rossa, and Atlantic in my classic car poker deck, “Car Cards” (which features 52 unique illustrations in all).
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Mercedes Benz 300SL
I may not have one in my garage, but the Mercedes-Benz 300SL is easily one of my favorite gull wing coupes! :-) I’ve been fortunate enough to see quite a few of these remarkable vehicles at various car shows, but experiencing one in person never seems to grow old.
This piece is the third of my ongoing experiments in which I break up the composition into distinct spaces that adhere to neither the two-point perspective of the environment nor the right angles of the frame. The gradations that help to delineate the spaces feel like light and shadow… giving the planes the appearance of existing in 3d space in between the viewer and the image... as if the viewer is peering through shattered glass.
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