Bruce Thomson – Page 2 – Caught in my headlights

Twenty years on.

20 years. Hard to believe. This is a painting I did sometime ago – 2002 I think. I’d been planning to do another, but life keeps getting in the way. A sad anniversary.

You might remember a pencil sketch of this I did a couple of months back, though at that time, it was just the car… I’ve been toying with the idea of doing a series of paintings in this vein – E-Type, 2000GT, 280SL, Stingray, 250GT Spyder… all of them clean side views and all ofContinue reading “E Type Painting colour test”

2014 Mercedes F1 concept/fantasy

…another F1 car rendering. For this one I wanted to evoke something of the 1950’s W156 and the much earlier W154, W125s; very difficult because of the great gulf of time/technology between now and then (and the fact the older cars were front-engined). Anyway, I had a lash at it and this is the resultContinue reading “2014 Mercedes F1 concept/fantasy”

Sketch for possible painting

I’ve been thinking about doing this for a while – I like the nature of the subject because it is a little more abstract in flavour than what I usually do, in as much as the subject is “closed up” on, showing a detail rather than the whole car and background which would be myContinue reading “Sketch for possible painting”

Countach concept

Keeping on the theme of Lamborghinis, a conceptualized idea of an lp400 update – an idea of what I wish the Countach had become, sans all those bad 80s spoilers, wings and add on body panels…

the rough and the smooth – the ROUGH

My students don’t, I think, believe me that drawings, sketches, renderings, paintings etc, need planning. So – I submit – a rough. This is typical of the work I do prior to attempting a “good” sketch. I will sometimes use this as an underlay (as I did in this case) or as a plan rough…

Rolls Royce Headlamp

Sketched this a while back after the British car day, and thought it was an interesting subject – so I decided to give this a “photoshop paint” … took far too long on it, but am happy with the result.

XK120

Belgian Grand Prix

Autobianchi Bianchina

This is a car that I was only peripherally aware of but was reminded of recently when I watched the Peter O’Toole, Audrey Hepburn movie “How to steal a million”… in it you get to see O’toole tooling (sorry) around Paris in an E Type and Hepburn burning (sorry) around in a Bianchina convertible. Lovely.