About The Artist:
I blame my Nana for this! She started it all, with a ‘Matchbox’ or ‘Hot Wheels’ car every week while I was growing up……

Some design tuition along the way lead to a love of non-theoretical representational art and most everything loosely termed ‘Mid-Century’.

Blending and juxtaposing these beautiful shapes, textures and colours together with the almost limitless array of wonderful automotive forms that have been created in the past 100 years or so is where I’m at now.

I’M STILL TRYING TO CREATE THE PERFECT COLLISION!

For details & pricing of my open & limited edition giclee prints & original acrylic on board paintings please contact me at: hipdeluxe@yahoo.co.nz

Mark D Sanders (HIP!)

Categories:
Classic Car, Exotic Car, Hot Rod/Custom Car, Motorsport, Muscle Car

Website:
http://www.redbubble.com/people/HIPdeluxe

About The Artist:
Alicia Hanson is an architectural graphic designer turned jewelry designer.

Alicia’s fascination with cars began early on watching her dad weld and her mom’s car naming games while driving. Alicia’s stepdad has a vintage porsche-addiction and the two use to frequent car museums. Alicia loves the styling of old cars and feels vintage cars make the perfect cross over to jewelry. She loves creating with her husband Brad.

Alicia frequents car shows with rings on every finger and a camera around her neck. Hi Octane jewelry is a passion that has translated to fun work. Alicia and her husband Brad create car grille rings fashioned after vintage cars. They also create custom auto themed wedding rings, along with motor head class rings. Check out their website to see their latest work.

Categories:
Classic Car, Hot Rod/Custom Car, Lowrider, Muscle Car, Sculpture, Jewelry

Website:
http://hioctanejewelry.com

About The Artist:
Born and bread in New Zealand down under I did my time as automotive spray painter. I did that for 10 years and gave it up for health reasons.

At college I was the kid in the back of maths class drawing cars in the back of my maths book hehe. I have always had a passion for Hot rods, cars, trucks and bikes. So a man and his car, you gotta love that combo deal!

I do custom automotive illustrations. A great way to capture that special kinda love between a man and his wheels. I take commissions to draw you and your wheels. I also do posters, Logos, T- shirt design and even design tattoos!!

I have big influences in my art career, the likes of Ed Roth : ), Thom Taylor, Steve Stanford hey the list goes on All American car artists and I love America. I’m sure I grew up in the wrong part of the world. Just cool car culture etc. I think I would do well over there.

PS: YOU DRIVE IT I”LL DRAW IT!!

Categories:
Hot Rod/Custom Car, Lowrider, Muscle Car, Cartoon, T-Shirt Design

Website:
http://www.kickstartautoart.co.nz

About The Artist:
Mike is a native of Richmond, Virginia. He has been drawing since he was old enough to hold a crayon. Being a lover of classic cars led him to combine his passion of both. He works with a range of media including detailed pencil illustration, ink drawing, pastel and marker rendering.

His site, www.hotrodmikes.com, sells great hand drawn artwork of classic cars, hot rods, and muscle cars. Pictures are original photo quality digital reproductions printed on 90lb Premium Cardstock and are signed and numbered by the artist.

Categories:
Classic Car, Hot Rod/Custom Car, Muscle Car, Cartoon

Website:
http://www.hotrodmikes.com

About The Artist:
I specialize in car and truck art mostly, however I draw pretty much any kind of vehicle. I use pen, pencil, markers, colored pencil and a little bit of paint. I’ve been drawing since I can remember. I started drawin car’s at about 5 or 6.

most of the work I do is for people who have a car or truck they own. They often display the artwork at show’s along with their car. I draw freehand and was often asked by teacher’s in school to draw pictures of their cars. Although it didn’t help my grade’s much it was still fun to do just the same.

I have had several different carrier’s over the year’s from truck driver to telecommunication’s technician in the phone business. My website features mostly recent work and I will be adding more work for display as they are completed.

Categories:
Classic Car, Hot Rod/Custom Car, Muscle Car, Illustration

Website:
http://www.automotiveartworksbyscott.vpweb.com

About The Artist:
Brian lives in Pittsburgh, PA. His creates artwork for screenprinting and his interests include classic cars, comic book art, and music. See more of his artwork on DeviantArt.

Categories:
Classic Car, Exotic Car, Hot Rod/Custom Car, Lowrider, Motorcycle, Motorsport, Muscle Car, Cartoon, Clip Art, Concept Design, Illustration, T-Shirt Design

Website:
http://www.bmart333.deviantart.com

About The Artist:
It seems I was born with brush in hand, Ive been doing some form of art since a child, sculpting and drawing came first with an artist grandmother for influence, as an adult attending the Kansas City Art Institute and State Fair Community College art program I perfected painting. Anything with speed has long been the passion that gave me fuel, so painting Motorcycles and automobiles came naturally. I have always seen the world from a different perspective and strive to reveal that insight in my work. Giclee’s are available of most of my paintings, custom commissions are also available.

Categories:
Classic Car, Hot Rod/Custom Car, Motorcycle, Muscle Car (Portrait)

Website:
http://www.chromedimpressions.com

About The Artist:
Matt Bernal was raised in the southern California, Huntington Beach to be exact, where the so cal car culture lifestyle was inescapable . Becoming serious about the industry in high school where he won the STAR award for automotive technology, Matt began working for Wings West in Newport Beach, CA. It was at Wings West where he discovered this lifestyle can be a career and not just a hobby. Inspired by a visit with Chip Foose Matt began attending Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Art Center taught him that his talents were not silly time wasters but serious talents that few have. Inspired and driven by entrepenuers , fabricators and designers like Thom Taylor, Steve Stanford, Jesse James and Chip Foose , Matt began freelancing as an automotive designer for the aftermarket industry. Matt was picked up by Saleen Performance in 2003. For the 5 years at Saleen, Matt supervised the production of the S281 Ford Mustangs , Focus , 331 F-150 and managed production and quality control of the limited addition Parnelli Jones Mustang.

Inspired to hone his fabrication skills Matt left Saleen for Gaffoglio Family Metal Crafters. That name may not mean much too many, but, enthusiasts would know that Metal Crafters have been building concept cars for major auto manufactures for close to 25 years. While at Metal Crafters Matt had a hand in the builds of concept cars for Nissan, Dodge , Jeep and the Concept Hyundai Genesis Coupe.

After spending some time in custom shops like Shoreline Motoring and Chicane Sport Tuning Matt was asked to participate with a team of outstanding fabricators to build the very first pre-production Fisker Karma and Karma S. While at Fisker Matt had a chance to rub shoulders with cream of the crop European designers like Henrick Fisker.

Most recently Matt completed a build for Suzuki of the DELTA TUNE Suzuki Kizashi , voted one of the top 10 cars of SEMA 2009 by cargurus.com.

Categories:
Classic Car, Exotic Car, Hot Rod/Custom Car, Lowrider, Motorcycle, Motorsport, Muscle Car (Concept Design, Illustration, T-Shirt Design)

Website:
http://www.bernalautostyle.com

About The Artist:
Few people in life get the chance to combine three passions into one. Jim Sansovich has gotten that opportunity and what you see here on these pages is the result. Jim has been an award winning illustrator doing illustrations for Fortune 500 companies such as Warner Bros. Universal Studios, and General Mills. Later Jim turned his attention to Photography and his unique photo collages have appeared in, and on the cover of several automotive magazines including Vette, Shark Quarterly, and Corvette Fever. Several pieces have ended up in museum collections. Jim has photographed millions of dollars worth of Chevrolet Corvettes, General Motors concept cars, Hot Rods, Muscle Cars, Classic Cars, and Harley Davidsons.

Jim has been a lifelong motorhead since he was a kid living across the street from a NHRA Top Fuel Dragster car owner. Jim got to sit in a number of drag racing cars that would often be at the home, and dreamed of screaming down the quarter mile. When finally old enough Jim got to own some of the cars he dreamed about as a kid including several Pontiac Firebirds, and Chevrolet Corvettes.

Now Jim has combined his love for anything that has a motor with photography, and illustration. These images start out as photographs Jim has taken at a variety of car shows. The images are then digitally re-painted in several programs resulting in a melding of illustration and photography. The final image has a look and feel that can’t be found in just one of those disciplines.

Images are available as fine art Giclee prints on acid free paper. Images are available framed and unframed. Unframed prints are 17 X 22.

Categories:
Classic Car, Hot Rod/Custom Car, Motorcycle, Muscle Car (Photography)

Website:
http://www.jimsansovich.com/

About The Artist:
My professional background is that of a graphic designer with more than 25 years experience, but my passion is for the history of automobile racing.

I started collecting vintage toy racecars in the end of the 1980’s and this led to picking items, books and reference material on racing history. After a few years of more collecting and studying all this, I decided to transfer my accumulated knowledge to paper in the form of illustrations and stories. In 2007, I set up a company Automobiliart.com to market my creations.

Through my motor sports artwork, I’m trying to capture the “feeling” that the spectator has watching the race, their favorite driver in battle or the classic racecar at rest.

My favorite drivers are many; I usually have heroes from each period of racing. I love Tazio Nuvolari from the ‘30s for his passion and skill; Juan Manuel Fangio was a shy humble gentleman and artist on the track; Sir Stirling Moss, who could win in whatever he drove; Sir Jack Brabham, with his single-minded push for success as a racer and builder; and of course Gilles Villeneuve, his fearlessness and driving art, nicely summed up at Dijon in 1979.

Most of my my art is available, either as an original or a limited edition.

I live in Halifax, Nova Scotia with my wife, our two sons and a cat.
Paul Chenard, BDesCom MG

Categories:
Classic Car, Motorcycle, Motorsport (Illustration, Portrait)

Website:
http://automobiliart.blogspot.com/