Spent on the Shore of Malcom Island

This hardworking boat has finished working and will return to the sea flake by flake. They are everywhere here and yet they disappear as the industry vapourizes. Bink for a closer look at the inner workings.

The Voyager

I am exploring the colourful yet gritty approach. I don't think they will be big sellers but they are more realistic yet more exagerated at the same time or something. This building actually sits on the Fraser River in North Bend. Splode it.
This building was a "Logger's Hotel" on the bank of the River Fraser. The car has no relation to the abandoned lodging. Its a "runner" that conveniently died by an open space where it underwent the ritual "tire letting". Buy it for 25 bucks, run it as long as you can "haywire" it together and the brakes last and where it dies is where it rests forever or until the crusher comes.

Plymouth Among the Rocks and Grass

Allrighty then, I redid it with a rock under it. I like this style.



This forlorn specimen is sitting in the yard of a homestead that has been abandoned since 1966. We have Scotch broom everywhere now and it grew out from underneath this wreck. And moss is actually growing on the trunk and hood. Blow it up.

The Bel Air Sat in the Salt Air

Now this gorgeous car was left on the beach in a remote area of Vancouver Island. It came into a logging camp on a barge and was left when the camp burned, nobody came back for it. Why it was taken in in the first place is a mystery or why it didn't burn for that matter. Its gone now so don't bother looking. Bink for more in depth baloney.

Queen Anne Shanty-Home of the Happy Medium

Okay here's the story. When I was a kid this was the house of a local "entertainer". By day she read taro cards and tea leaves. She stopped short of gazing into her crystal ball, but she did mount a glass float on her roof, a symbol of her trade I suppose. The interesting thing about the float was that she had figured out how to light it up with a red glow. It had to be kerosene or candles because there was no power. So I guess her income generation program involved extended hours. She didn't close day or night. It was near the beach, a shanty with log "ginger bread" details and pretentions to a Queen Anne Style. Another comical aspect was that because the shack had no foundation it was sinking so you had to stoop to get in so it kinda looked like a hobbit house. This is my idea sketch, just a doodle, the trees are too red, the spot of light leads your eye out of the picture etc...I am collecting ideas-painting on scraps just gaining momentum. __________________

Idea For a West Coaster

I have always thought the Californian watercolourists of the mid twentieth century were boffo superb. Interpretive, full of motion, light, colour...just all round fabulous. This is my salute to them,
especially Duane R Light. I am going to refine this idea.

The Velasquez Palette

Bink to expand.

Demo

This is the final result of a step by step demonstration I did for "Paint Doodles". Bink to blow for greater appreciation of nothing in particular and everything in general.

Just about

Cars From Day 1

This is my idea for a painting of someone's cars from the first one to the present....

Work in Progress

This is the second draft.











This is a scene I am working on- this is the first draft.

Cumberland Yard

This painting contains a house from Cumberland, my buddies car (the red/pink Plymouth), 2 cars from a commission and a coupe (on the left) from an old junkyard now gone. Bink for illumination and copyright infringement.

Royal Oak Station

This was part of a series I did with Fords as the main characters. Bink to blow..up.

Okanagan Sun Patina

This subject was one of my first discoveries. I learned to paint on this car. I've painted it many times, practising, practising.....

Going in Reverse

This is a flip of Cadillac Ranch. Explore to a greater degree by binking.

Ten Thousand Hits!

At 11:30 P.S.T. I got my 10,000th hit. I think thats not bad and I thank everybody who has stopped by.

Cluster of Ragtops

Fun pic of all '37 converts. Bink to explore!

Boat on the Loose

In an effort to reduce the amount of effort, is that a double entendre?, I just want to draw with the brush and carry on. Bink to blow.

Landed

Bink to explore the inner workings..

Fishboat

I am going to make an effort to paint in this style. Bink to expand your awareness of the details or not.

Watching Over the Fifty-Five II

Light at Dusk...

Just playing around, maybe it will be a painting. Bink to expand.

Pile of Cars

One of my faves. Click to engage on a more intimate level.

Impala Doesn't Run Anymore

I always liked the 58. Bink for elucidation.

Sept 18 the birthday present

Playing with Mab, Its Lib's birthday he's the present.

Workin on the Boats

I want to do more boats. So I think I will. Bink to blow...up.

Keeping Watch Over the Fifty- Five

I'm collecting images for the winter painting season. Bink for exploration purposes.

Black Creek Dodge

A Bit Sletchy

This is one of the first sletches for Cadillac Ranch. I like the style and need to be reminded sometimes of different ways to paint. So I said to myself,"Look here". Bink for bigger.

Compilation

This is what I worked hard to be able to do- paint unique compositions in a style that I developed. Nothing radical here, just painting. The single cars are studies. The big pics are the destination. I want to create and interpret, not paint by rote. So there you go.

Buick

This guy is retired. "Bink Me," he said.

Back of the Paper

I think this is one of my very favourite paintings - its painted on the back of a sheet of watercolour paper which doesn't take paint as well. Its also painted with scraps of opaque paint which do not lend themselves to co-operation. Expand my horizons by clicking.

Why I Paint Old Cars

Because it allows me to explore and experiment. Elucidate with a click.