Latest NZ oriented artwork from me.
Bruce McLaren in his M14 at Monaco 1970.
The car is coloured pencil but the background and black foreground is acrylic paint.
Note that the pic is a digital photo of the work and thus not 100% representative. (the paper is still slightly wavy!) I look forward to the scan and resulting giclee print.
A great place to ride the bike for a beer, the Fanny Bay Inn is a landmark on the old Island Highway the bike is a blend of all that went by.
I have added a new Watercolor Painting to my Gallery, titled – OLD SCHOOL “Lesson Number One”. The painting depicts a 50’s Merc and a Ford Model A Roadster Pick-up racing on a country road. The cars were recently built, although they appear to be right out of the 50’s.
I love the artistry of a custom made bike. I think the personality, as well as the spirit of a person is wonderful to experience through their own form of artwork. Scout Underwood, formerly of Baker Drivetrain, is one of those artist. I hope you all enjoy looking at his bike.
Read the book review for “Italian Racing Red Book” on Veloce Today!
On sale now, my automotive illustrations are featured in the new British book series named “Racing Colours” in which I produced event specific, historic automotive profile illustrations. Many hours went into the research and creation of these illustrations. Race cars were often configured very differently from event to event. We worked hard to make each illustration an accurate visual representation.
So far I have produced illustrations for Italian Racing Red, German Racing Silver, and French Racing Blue. Hopefully there will be many more titles to come.
Here are the covers that shoe my work. Italian Racing Red is available now with the French Racing Blue and German Racing Silver available in June at Amazon.com, Borders.com, and other fine book sellers.
June 11-14, I’ll be at the Hotlanta Collector Experience in Atlanta GA. Most likely I’ll be travelling with the model maker responsible for most of the Muscle Machines range and we’ll be bringing in the Muscle Machines quarter scale Willys so if you’re attending come over and say G’Day. It’ll be good to meet people and chat about diecast, Muscle Machines and cars in general.
Just a note to let you know I have made a major update to my automotive art web site
http://www.motorsportsartist.com/carart/
Found that WordPress make a great content management tool even for non-blog sites. Easy to update and add to.
David F Kyte
Automotive & Motorsports Art
www.motorsportsartist.com
Mick Walsh of Classic & Sports Car Magazine recently interviewed me for a Motoring Art feature. Mick talks about what drove my interest in automotive illustration work and what I’m doing today. The article is published in the April 2009 issue.
