For those that have been following my blogs, you know I have spent the past three months working on a painting I call the “Old Woodie.” Before beginning to paint, I did several thumbnail sketches and then drew the painting full scale 24″X36″.
It all began with an old black and white photograph taken back in 1949 or 50 of my father pumping gasoline into our family woodpanel framed 1946 Ford.
The good news is that the painting will soon be finished. Of course, I have not painted on it except sporadically while doing other things, but it is reaching the stage of almost getting there.
My challenge this weekend was getting the tire, hubcap and shadows (especially beneath the car) as realistic as possible. I had no reference to colors since the photograph and all my drawings were in black and white.
The picture was taken in Southeast New Mexico where the ground was sand and the scenery was sand and flat. I elected an opposite color to the sand for the shadow beneath the panel truck because the photo showed it to be very dark.
