1965 Corvette In Oil

1965 Chevrolet Corvette In Oil
Oil paint on gessoed board, 18X24, 247 hours

I did a drawing of the car on a piece of watercolor paper to establish my values, and to help me really see the subject before i started to paint it. I pretty much worked from the background to foreground on this all the way through.

I think my proportions are okay. I am happy with my palette choices, and i have a full range of values here. I was also happy with the way the background turned out. I originally shot this car in front of a restaurant, and wanted to paint it on a beach in sunny southern California. So i used a beach panorama i took in Santa Monica, and used a 1966 Corvette reference shot i took to see how the car would look without a building behind it. It all came out okay.

My biggest complaint is the time it took. I was wanting to be within two hundred hours, and overshot by a whole week! I just gott’a get faster at this. My other complaint was all the paint i threw away. I cannot seem to mix small enough amounts of paint and waste a lot of it that way. And there are still things i need to shore up in my paintings. Still plenty of room to learn and improve.

Comments and criticisms always welcome!

1965 Corvette Reference Photograph [link]
Beach Pan Reference Photograph [link]
1966 Corvette Reference Photograph [link]