My students were doing an “in-class sketching” project today, so I doodled this between babbling and invigilating…
Author Archives: Bruce Thomson
XK120
Singapore Grand Prix
E Type Interior
Another sketch from “British Car Day” – or “How to spend an entire evening on a drawing you meant to take 20 minutes, while single-handedly contributing to an ink shortage in your area…”
Lotus 23
…drew this from a photo I took at the British Car Day in Bronte Provincial Park this past Sunday – don’t know that I have ever seen a car so “low”- if you lose the roll bar it’s only slightly above knee height… amazing.
No idea…
Not sure what this is – but I often think fondly of a vehicle like this when I’m stuck in traffic…
Italian Grand Prix
This cartoon is a reaction to something I’ve noticed since the advent of the “public” pit to car radio… it seems to me that almost ANYTIME a race engineer gets on the blower and tells their driver that they’re on for a possibility of a win, or a podium, or to beat their rival –Continue reading “Italian Grand Prix”
Doodle
I was bored during a meeting and doodled this. It’s a “thumbnail” – about 6 x 4 cm… Tch tch tch… still sketching cars in the margins when I should be paying attention… I never did grow up.
E Type Sketch
This is a sketch I’ve taken quite a long time on – I want to do a large scale painting of this, and this is part of the preparation (taking a break from F1 cars for a bit, when I’ve finished my current piece). The sketch is based on three separate images. The spokes areContinue reading “E Type Sketch”
Caught in my headlights 