Just completed my last commission and as I haven't got any more painting or photo jobs on for a bit I thought I'd do something I've been meaning to do for a while now. Tonight I finished sketching out a rendition of the Millen/O'Connell/Morton Z32. It's going to be an oil on canvas piece, 700mm x 500mm and so far I'm having fun doing it! :)

 

Cool! :cool: You missed off all the numbers though :tongue:

Cool! :cool: You missed off all the numbers though :tongue:

Ah, go and paint your headlight black Pete! (and no I won't do it for you!)

:rofl: :p

 

P.S. (Gaaarrrrr! ;) :D)

:D I might do now :D

 

Arrrr!

:D I might do now :D

 

Arrrr!

Lol! :D

 

Also thinking I might do something more with these couple of quick prelim sketches I did ages ago of a Ferrari 330 P4:

 

 

Never really got into painting or photographing cars so might be nice to see how they pan out. :)

Really good Leigh - that's some talent you've got there :cool:

 

Keep your first sketches - they'll be worth loads when you're famous :D

:D nice and have you finnished that other project yet i want to see it pretty please

Leigh

 

Have you got any decent pics of the zed youre painting? as someone has asked if i can reproduce it for there Zed

 

Thanks

John

Really good Leigh - that's some talent you've got there :cool:

 

Keep your first sketches - they'll be worth loads when you're famous :D

A chap I know who has seven of my paintings in his house (all fairly large abstracts) keeps asking me when I plan on popping my clogs so he can flog them for a profit! Lol!...(the swine! :D)

 

lets drift: it's getting there...;)

 

ZX MAD: reproduce as in make a kit of it? Steve Millen might have a few things to say about that...;) But seriously, yeah sure no prob, got a few you might be interested in. PM me your email address and I'll send them over. BTW, before I forget, was going to call when you started trading again about the power cap ;)

Do you do a wash sketch over your prep drawing first? I find this a great way to add depth as you can apply several quick dring washes before building the detail.

 

Mind you. I always construct the backgound washes in Acrillics for speed (habbit of an ex working Illustrator) and the flatness of the acrillic creats distance against the depth and life of the oils.

 

Be nice to see one of your cars finish :slap: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Do you do a wash sketch over your prep drawing first? I find this a great way to add depth as you can apply several quick dring washes before building the detail.

 

Mind you. I always construct the backgound washes in Acrillics for speed (habbit of an ex working Illustrator) and the flatness of the acrillic creats distance against the depth and life of the oils.

 

Be nice to see one of your cars finish :slap: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Cheeky coont! :rofl: :D

 

I've used the old "tempera underpainting" technique before and I like the immediacy of being able to hit the acrylic base almost at once with oil glazes but with this, as I'm not going for a precise rendering, I'll probably start by blocking in the main underlying areas of colour before working in more detail with touches of opaque colour on top. Probably :D