All Tired Out

This is the reduced version of two previous posts. A paler incarnation. With a gleam.

Rolls Canardly-Nineteen Thirty Eleven

This is a Rolls Canardly, rare model sighted only once in my imagination. The Rolls Canardly rolls down one hill and canardly make it up the next.This should be a magnet for the search engines. I named a painting Oliver Stacks and guess what? Some loon is named Oliver Stacks. Imagine the surprise when you're looking for the person and you get the painting...Another 1 second visit.

Boat in Warm Grass

Sometimes you just have to heat things up.

Dead Sedan

This poor two door was caught in a rut sorta like me. Bink to detonate (blow up)

Shacked Up Forever

Just funnin around, workin my way to the big pic, gathering characters as I go. These two will be joined by three others. Yes the posts are hanging in mid air. Explode it with a click.

49 Oldsmobile

This culprit lives nearby, he has been toned up for aesthetic purposes. Bink on painting to blow it up!

Six Car Pile Up

This painting is a version of the Pile Up Series. It lost a car from a previous version. I post it to show how a single car/truck can end up in a larger painting-an ensemble piece. The tow truck below became the central figure in the above tableau.

3000 Hits-A Milestone

I just passed the 3000 hit plateau, I think that is good for something?

Chevy Tow Truck

I found this fella out in Abottsford about twenty-five years ago. He can be found in one of the larger paintings-Seven Car Pile Up This is what I call a "character study".

The Gathering

I painted this in 1980 and I'm putting it up again so that it becomes part of my "gallery" on the Daily Painters. I think that the gallery is a fine thing. I kept this painting over the years as a "core piece". It took me ten days to paint with a 000 brush. Click to blow up.

The Boatyard (Reduced Version)

I had fun with this composition, it is the simplified version of a larger painting. I live by the beach on Vancouver Island and this is what I imagined it looked like maybe in the early sixties. Mind you, there are still places like this, today on the island. The boat in front, which has appeared before on my blog, is an old water taxi called the "Steel Maid". Click on picture for a better view.

Rusticity

This is a compilation piece with characters from all over. Rusticity means being rustic or rural, it does not mean "being rusted". Click on this painting to blow it up or enlarge it even- then you can actually see it.

Chevy Truck From Tunnel Hill

B.J.Wright of Tunnel Hill, Georgia sent me some photos, this is a quick sketch. Thanks, B.J.!
The far fender is loose and the headlight has been pushed up by the board-thats my story and I'm sticking to it.

Backyard at North Bend

This is an encore production. I changed the title. I realize I should be painting onions or switching to oils rather than investing years to develop my own style. But I'm stubborn.

Ford Coupe

I found this Ford in a wrecking yard 30 years ago.

Nicola Valley Church

Early Fifties Ford

Ron's Fun Pics and Corners

This ia a corner of a failed effort that I thought was fun.

Osoyoos Delivery

I painted this about 1980 you get it cuz I still got it.

Hanging Out With A Bunch Of Hoods

This is a coupla years old but newer than yesterdays.

Springhill Junction

This is meant to amuse, damn it!

1930 Floyd Merkatroid

Black Creek Dodge

This old Dodge sits in an old gas station surrounded by junk. The gas station is ten minutes away from where I live on Vancouver Island .

Donna's Buick

Donna Theis sent me some Buick photos yesterday morning-had the sketch done by noon-will paint again.

Coombs Cadillacs Again

Texas Creek Buick

Cumberland Yard Reversed

Fly-Opener

Catch and Release

Abstract Sedan

34 Ford

Vintage Tin

There is a certain intangible quality about 0ld tin, as it sits rusting away in fields and junkyards, that fascinates those who discover it. There is a mysterious, eerie sensation of looking into the past through the face of a survivor that compels artists and photographers to preserve these vestiges of simpler times in their paintings and photographs.

These tin derelicts assume attitudes of defiance, puzzlement, and resignation in their stand against the onslaught of weather and metal scavengers. Paint blisters and peels under the scorching sun, revealing layers of colour and primer that both blend and contrast in expressions of abstract art. Faded scales of original blues and greens flake from oxidized surfaces as old metal turns to natural hues.

Memories lie in these metal shells like the dust on their dashboards which even the wind cannot blow away. Faint traces of things past remembering are reflected in glass that is almost opaque, and chrome that is dull and yellow. Shreds of rotten upholstery, hanging from roofs and torn from seats, provoke speculation about particular circumstances that are now long forgotten.

58 Chev

This is a snippet from a big painting. I'm posting it because I like the colours.

Hudson & Nash