Friday, December 30, 2011

Canadian Hero

Canadian Hero
24x15
Ink and Watercolour on illustration board.
Sold

Timeless Fascination Framed

Timeless Fascination is now framed!
Always finishes it off when its behind glass with a nice matte and frame.

Will be entering it and the sepia toned drawing above "TR59" and the large drawing "Diva" in a juried show called "Drawing 2012" at the John B Aird gallery in Toronto.

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

17 Seconds

17 Seconds
23x12
Ink/Watercolour/Pastel on paper

#3 Ribbons

#3 Ribbons
27x15
Ink/Watercolour/Pencil crayon on paper

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

250 California at the Breakers


250 California at the Breakers
8x10
Ink and Pastel on paper.
SOLD

Friday, December 23, 2011

MG on Yorkville


MG in Yorkville
8x11
Ink and Pencil Crayon on paper
SOLD

One of my older works from the 90x.

Thursday, December 22, 2011

F50

F50
29x20
Watercolour and Ink on illustration board

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Merry Christmas!

My Christmas card this year featuring the famous one-off Ferrari by Jim Glickenhaus, the P4/5.

Scales - demo

Scales
12x16
Watercolour on paper
1.5 hr demonstration for my class tonight.

Monday, December 19, 2011

68 Chevelle





68 Chevelle
17x22
Ink/Pastel/Watercolour on paper
Commission from owner

Italian Blur


Italian Blur
24x30
Acrylic on canvas

One of my few abstract works, but still one can interpret the shapes and forms of the Ferrari F1 racer. This one of Barrichello's in the early 2000s

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Cedarbae Volkswagen





Cedarbrae Volkswagen
15x24
Ink and Watercolour on Illustration board
Commission from the Scarborough dealership in 2001

Saturday, December 17, 2011

F355 Spider on Lincoln Road


One of my older watercolours:
F355 Spider on Lincoln Road, Miami
Watercolour on paper
24x36

Used Photoshop to compose a shot from Miami and one of a F355 spider.

Thursday, December 15, 2011

TR59

TR59
25x12
Conté on paper

I wanted to do a major work and gave myself one day turnaround limit to do it. I tried a bit different style. Always exploring and experimenting.

550 Maranello Detail

550 Maranello Detail
24x30
Acrylic on Canvas

250LM Detail

250LM Detail
12x25
oil on canvas

First attempt at oils back in the late 90s

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

456GT Rendering

456GT
17x13
Pencil crayon and markers on grey illustration board

One of my few attempts at using a mid-range-colour ground and rendering the darks and highlites.

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Sunlit Geranium

Sunlit Geranium
11x15
Ink & Watercolour on paper
Another demo from my WC class tonight.
Freightliner 77
Watercolour and ink on illustration board
30x40
Commission
One of my largest watercolours, for one of my largest subjects. A commission for the driver of this racing Freightliner truck at Pike's Peak. He was flying an American Flag behind the cab during the shoot so I enhanced Old Glory a bit, interpreting it to become a secondary compositional element.

Monday, December 12, 2011

Ferrari F1 Miniature Watercolours

Four miniature Ferrari F1 paintings done a while ago. Ferrari F1 miniature painting #1
#27
5x3
Ink and Watercolour on illustration board
SOLD

Ferrari F1 miniature painting #2
#28
5x3
Ink and Watercolour on illustration board
SOLD

Ferrari F1 miniature painting #3
#28
5x3
Ink and Watercolour on illustration board
SOLD

Ferrari F1 miniature painting #4
#12
5x3
Ink and Watercolour on illustration board
SOLD

Saturday, December 10, 2011

Ferrari F1

Ferrari F1
Photography

Taken at Ferrari Maserati of Ontario

TR drawing

TR
8x4
Pen/Ink sketch on Illustration board

Palm Beach Fountain

Palm Beach Fountain
8x10
Ink and Watercolour on printed ink sketch

Another demo for my Tuesday night class. From one of sketches done in West Palm Beach of a very intruiging fountain near Worth Avenue.

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Timeless Fascination


Timeless Fascination
23x23
Charcoal on paper

One of my largest drawings. From a shot taken at a DeLorean meet in 2010 that just BEGGED to be drawn. Two girls fascinated by the DeLorean come Time Machine vehicle. They werent even born when the movie was released but they are still transported to the wonderous imagination of Zemekis and Spielberg...

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Watercolour Class Demos




A couple of demos at my Tuesday night class.

Barn Door
11x15
Ink & Watercolour on paper

Lummus Park Coconuts
8.5x11
Watercolour on inkjet print of inkjet sketch

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Pantera - Italian Car Day


Pantera
18x24
Ink and Watercolour on Yupo
Winner of a sponsored commission from Italian Car Day in August.

Saturday, October 15, 2011

Diva


Another demo last night at the Framing Dames Gallery I work at... An "Arts night" on the street with 5 or 6 artists doing their thing for the public.. Had my Ferrari art up, but demo'd a large drawing of one of our dogs. Got alot of comments... been a while since I've used charcoal. Things came back to me...

Diva
22x30
charcoal on paper

Friday, October 7, 2011

Sketching at Sassafraz!


Such lovely fall weather! Had to stop and do some drawing in Toronto...

plein aire sketching at Yorkville - Sassafraz restaurant.
8x13
ink and watercolour on paper

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Commission Finished!


Finally finished the commission for the owner of an F430 Spider!

"F430 Spider"
24x18
Watercolour and Ink on Yupo

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

New Commission - rough outline sketch


A rough idea comp for a new commission. An F430 Spider.

Monday, August 29, 2011

Italian Car Day 2011




Had a booth at Italian Car Day in Woodbridge on Saturday. Here are a few pics of her. A great day... almost 300 cars of different Italian makes. A drawing for a watercolour portrait done by moi was won by a Pantera owner.

Monday, August 8, 2011

250TR - 2 views


250TR - 2 views
14x10
watercolour and ink on paper

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Rossa


"Rossa"
Photoshop on Macintosh
from a F430 photo i took at a recent Ferrari Event

Saturday, July 30, 2011

New work: GTO under the Palms


GTO under the Palms
10X14
Watercolour & ink on paper

Artwork Donation to "I Wish Ferrari" Event



Donated 2 pieces to the I Wish Ferrari Event in Woodbridge.
A 36x36 canvas print of the vector art F430 Scuderia
and an original watercolour and ink painting "250TR s/n0666"
Proud new owners were very happy... love the lil tyke that won the canvas print... print was bigger than he was.. :)

Saturday, June 11, 2011

White Testarossa


White Testarossa
10X14
Watercolour & ink on paper

Last demo piece... a white on tan TR. Similar to the white on tan Miami Vice car but a low-mirror model.

250 TR 0666


A couple more demo pieces from today...

250 TR 0666
10X14
Watercolour & ink on paper

Still using the Cavallino Classic shots...

Sunday, June 5, 2011

500F2 s/n0210F


500F2 s/n0210F
10X14
Watercolour & ink on paper

Second of two done at the public demonstration of my Ferrari Artwork at the Framing Dames on June 4th.

250 TR59


250 TR59
10X14
Watercolour & ink on paper

First of two done at the public demonstration of my Ferrari Artwork at the Framing Dames on June 4th.

Sunday, May 29, 2011

Ferrari 312 T5 "Gilles Ride"


Ferrari 312 T5 "Gilles Ride"
14x10
Watercolour and ink on paper

From shots I took of his car at the 2006 Cavallino Classic.

Saturday, May 28, 2011

599 at the Breakers


599 at the Breakers
10x14
Ink & Watercolour on paper

Still using my old shots from the Cavallino Classic held each January in West Palm Beach FLA.

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

410 Spyder


410 Spyder
10x14
Watercolour and ink on paper

Using some of my old shots from the Cavallino Classic in West Palm Florida. This one of a 1955 Ferrari 410 Spyder Scaglietti

Saturday, May 14, 2011

Fresh Tires - Mosport


Fresh Tires
10x14
Watercolour and ink on paper

One of my paintings done of an event at Mosport.
A mechanic changing the rubber on a Ferrari 333SP during one of FCA Track Days.