It was a great day yesterday, Saturday, in historical downtown Bastrop, Texas. The Veterans Day Car show was on and it was a well attended event. The
Austin American Statesman, story here, says 10,000. Hmm. You can see the
newspapers photos here.
Check out
Joanna's beautiful flag photo, too.
I opened my Studio & Gallery and painted outside on the street. I have never tried to paint cars. You realize they do not have many straight edges. It is difficult to depict the curves, at least quickly. :) I walked around quickly but didn't get photos from the rest of the street, sorry. I really enjoyed painting and visiting with all the visitors to Bastrop and hometown friends. Here is my effort followed by photos from the front of the gallery.
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| The Blue Car, original pastel painting on Pastelbord, 11 x 14 inches, Plein Air |
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| I loved this view of the red cars, tent and the shiny hat on the lady, but it was a harder angle to paint. |
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| So I picked this view. |
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| The models were leaving. |
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| The rest of the models. |
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| The painting as I finished. So many things wrong, but it was certainly fun trying this out. |
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| The end, as I put away my equipment. |
6 comments:
I kinda like the "unrealism" (if you will) of the painting. The colors are great.
What fun Jo, this car show must have given you a lot of reference to work with. I love functions like that, the people etc, that's where I get a lot of figures from which to work.
Love the little blue car painting, very fun.
Rae
Hi Joanna, thank you. You can't get very real in 3 hours or so. :) It got lots of uus and ahs.
Rae, yes, I like painting on the street. I ended up talking to the owners of the blue, green and gold cars. They came by to see what I was doing. It was fun. A very large crowd that I didn't get in photos.
Jo - Wish we had been there! I had to deliver art that day for a show here. Looks like you had a lot of fun!
I love "The Blue Car"!
Teresa, thank you. Cars looks so easy but aren't. I think it is the lack of straight lines or edges. Ha.
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