FUTURE
I was talking to a journalist a while back and answering the normal questions about who had inspired me in my youth to help me on my path to success. One artist normally gets mentioned and is indeed near the top of the list of my influential hereos… One Dave Bell. Dave used to pen Henry Hirise, a monthly page tucked into the rear of Street Rodder. Sadly both Dave and the magazine are no longer with us.Talk to any hotrod fan of a certain age and we all get misty eyed about Dave’s brilliant cartoons.
As with any artist, without being really aware of all the work we soak up in the effort to find our own unique path, it’s nice now and then to say thank you to the guys and girls who inspire us all to move forward. I’ve recently recommissioned the casting of the chopped model A five window coupe. And is now offered as an open cast edition again. The first one is being used as part of a Triptych and the second, I’ve copied Dave Bell’s style full on and the results can be seen below. Before the base was completed.
This edition is now sold. However due to the simple fact everyone loves it and the requests have been flooding in asking for one, I suggest if you would like to purchase one, don’t hang around. I do intend on penning rather than painting other small hotrods which I’ve had cast in the same Dave Bell style as time allows…. But I won’t be doing them forever, so be quick.
ACID TANK RACERS.
Anyone following me on facebook will be aware of this latest sculpture. One 1966 Plymouth Belvedere Altered wheel base drag car.The idea behind this edition is to do one every now and then, time allowing. Each will be painted in a unique colour and style.
This first edition is now sold. But please make contact if you would like one. Free standing or wall mounted. Black, rusty, cream, all sorts of colours are planned. And each one will have a different race name painted along the side of the car….so long as they are humorous. For the latest updates pop along to my facebook page.
RAIN DANCE
Some of you might remember I created Jo Siffert’s Gulf Porsche 917, in the depths on the night speeding along the Mulsanne straight at over 200mph. Huge amounts of fire and flames pouring from the rear of the car. Compliments of a missed gear change… apparently.
That edition sold out a long time ago. You can find images of it elsewhere on this site.
I had a sticky casting of the 917. Sticky meaning the marble resin hadn’t mixed properly, so I couldn’t add paint to the surfaces. The paint stayed… sticky. So it was due to be binned. For some reason I kept it. Collecting dust in the studio.
Fast forward a number of years….
It’s now been brought back to life as a new edition. Like all my sculptures, if I can’t do something unique, I steer well clear, I’ve been wanting to do a rain race subject for years, but to date not found the right subject. Until now…. The winning 917 in the same race as the Gulf cars was the now famous red and white number 23. LeMans race fans all know the race was.. er… wet. It rained for most of the race… So the flames on the sticky 917 casting have been removed, the rear of the car re shaped and sculpted, all the non mixed resin areas of the original cut out and redone… plus a ton of other changes, so now what you see in the attached photo is a new master 917 sculpt ready to be cast.
So….. Black gloss acrylic base. very glossy wet car and a ton of spray. The wet shapes coming from the rear will be attached and sanded smooth on the base, so the effect of the spray works a lot better that what you see in the photos. Plan is to create a 120 x 120 cm base, so it’s going to be big and very dramatic.
Pictures show the tiny Marquette demonstrating how the spray and glossy wet surface will hopefully look. Plus the revised master sculpt.
Please make contact if you want to be kept updated on the progress of this latest edition.