http://www.motorsportsartist.com/carart Automotive & Motorsports Art Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:22:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Painting depicts a 1960's era Triumph TR-4 in Black. Elsewhere on my site you will find other Triumph Models including a TR-3, TR-4, TR-4a and TR-250 [caption id="attachment_1610" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="Print Detail"][/caption] Unique and wonderfully detailed, Not merely filtered photographs like some art you will see, these are carefully crafted digital paintings that ... http://www.motorsportsartist.com/carart/featured-articles/black-triumph-tr-4/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed The 1960's were decade of innovation at the Indianapolis 500. In 63 European car builders showed the old guard that light mid engines cars were the way to go. By 67 no front engine cars made it into the race. The 1967 race was almost won by this STP sponsored ... http://www.motorsportsartist.com/carart/featured-articles/1967-stp-turbine-indy-500-car/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed A little Valentine Thing. Created in Corel Painter using a Wacom drawing tablet. http://www.motorsportsartist.com/carart/other-art/digital/the-love-donut/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed In his first Grand Prix start of the 1971 season Mario Andretti driving for the Ferrari team qualified fourth on the grid for the South African Grand Prix. Run on the Kyalami circuit Andretti ran in the top six for the first half of the race. As the race was ... http://www.motorsportsartist.com/carart/motorsports-art/formula-one-motorsports-art/mario-andretti-first-f-1-win/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed [caption id="attachment_1418" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Waterford Hill Road Course Track Day"][/caption] For many years I had the pleasure of owning a 1974 Lotus Europa Twin Cam.  I even took to racing the car in SCCA Solo 2 competition and at numerous track days. The car was for the most part fiberglass with a ... http://www.motorsportsartist.com/carart/britishcars/lotus-britishcars/my-lotus/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Companion piece to my painting of the new model Saleen Mustang. This is the Mustang of Parnelli Jones that competed in the 1970 Tans Am racing series.  In 1970, spectators watched Parnelli in his black striped Grabber Orange Boss 302 Mustang take numerous checkered flags to win the overall championship. ... http://www.motorsportsartist.com/carart/featured-articles/parnelli-jones-1970-trans-am-mustang/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed The Detroit Dream Project’s “Temple of the American Dream” was built by volunteers in the Brightmoor / Old Redford (Grand River and Lasher) neighborhood of northwest Detroit in June 2008. This community art and peace park is open to all, shaped by all, and the hub of many of our ... http://www.motorsportsartist.com/carart/photography/detroit-urban-images/detroit-dream-project/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed HDR, High Dynamic Range is the process of taking a series photos with a digital camera of the same subject and adjusting exposure to get good detail in the shadows without blowing out the highlites.  These overexposed and under exposed images are composited into one image with color, detail and ... http://www.motorsportsartist.com/carart/featured-articles/detroit-hdr-photos/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Created in Corel Painter using a Wacom Cintiq. From an idea I had for a school of mechanical fish. http://www.motorsportsartist.com/carart/other-art/digital/screwy-fish-artwork/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Not far from where I live in Detroit is a rather tattered area of the city called Brightmore, in fact some call it Blightmore because of the abandoned and burned out houses. But amongst all this is this impressive bit of building art on the side of once was a ... http://www.motorsportsartist.com/carart/photography/detroit-urban-images/brightmore-building-art/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed