Another car from Nick Mason’s Ten Tenths Collection. This was a beautiful Ferrari 250GTO that was up on jackstands being worked on. The GTO was between a couple of Bugattis and a Dark Green Ferrari 512BB. A great place to spend an afternoon.
Sketch/painting Venice
I’ve ignored paintings since working on a piece of Fernando Alonso winning the European Grand Prix of Valencia in a Ferrari. This seemed to be the perfect subject – and I had all the reference and this painting was going to be GREAT. It wasn’t. I worked and worked. I painted gesso over half the painting and tried again. But the more I worked the worse it got.
I sketched a lot after this, 🙂
Evelyn has been bugging me to paint (clever woman) and so I took on a couple of smaller projects – the above is from a shot I took in Venice (bet you couldn’t tell, eh?) back in 2014. It’s small… about 30 x 15 cm – which was a mistake – the smaller painting take as long as a larger painting because of the detail – but it was a good way to work myself back in…
Ronda, Spain
A sketch from our recent trip to Spain. This is a clock tower in the “Plaza Duquesa de parcent” in the eastern part of Ronda. Like most of my sketch subjects it had a comforting proximity to a patio that served beer… 🙂
Leuven
In the same sketchbook (circa 1985) that I found the Tower of London (previous post) I found this – and I find this vastly amusing.
I remember staying in this Youth Hostel back in early July of 1985 – I’ve said that it is in “Leuven” – but it was not – it was rural, definitely outside of Leuven. Why is this amusing to me? My sister-in-law and her family live in Leuven and thus we are frequent visitors there. I had completely forgotten about this place, but have tried (since re-acquainting myself with this sketchbook) through various searches and search methods to see if I could locate this youth hostel/farmhouse but I have not been successful; Leuven has grown, I have no idea of how close (or far) this is from Leuven or indeed, what direction it was in relation to the city, and of course, it is almost certain that this place is no longer a hostel.
Still, I find it hilarious to imagine that I, as a feckless youth toddled around so closely to my soon-to-be brother in law (who would have been a mere 8 or so years old at the time).
Worst, looking at this sketch, I fear my drawing style has not evolved as I might have wished it would. “sigh”.
“F”
…and here is “F”… I count 34 items beginning with the letter F (you can only count the Fiats once, though!). Enjoy!
Oh! Bonus: See if you can find the mis-spelling. 🙂
New T-Shirt at “Blipshift”
Blipshift has picked up another of my “renders” and is offering it for sale for the next two days… if you want to be able to hang with the cool kids, this is a must have… 😉
These are available at www.blipshift.com/products/gullwinning
Back to the ABCs on Tuesday…
“D and E”
I’m a little late posting this one… most naughty of me. You’ll likely want to click on this one to enlarge it to see as much as possible. I count 33 items in “D” and 15 in “E”. Enjoy!
“C”
And here is “C”, I count 30 items, not including the 2 cars (Corvette and Cadillac). Enjoy!
“B”
Alright… and here’s “B”. I count (including license plates, signage and all) 34 items starting with “B”. (Click to see full size).
“A”
This is something I started many, many moons ago, and have never quite finished. The idea was to come up with an “ABC” book based on automobiles and alliteration. I also wanted to try to populate the images with items that start with the letter… (in this case, “A). Some aren’t “hidden” (like the “Autobahn” sign), but others may be easy to overlook. There are 16 items hidden in this particular image.
I’ll be posting these letter by letter on Tuesdays. Spoiler alert… I’ve only “finished” to “J”, with sketches for K, L, and M. Let me know what you think (and find!). Enjoy!
P.S. The cars don’t count towards the 16 hidden items.
P. P. S. A sharp-eyed viewer has found another “A” item – so there are 17. Apologies – it’s been so long since I did “A” I’ve had to search the things myself!
P.P.P.S: Another found 18! 🙂
Caught in my headlights 