Another commission finished just in time for a Christmas gift. These 2 paintings are based on a father and son's cars and was commissioned by a daughter/sister for the pair. She wanted both the paintings to look as much a like as possible and have the cars racing. The loaded question was whose car should be out in front. She said her brother's which is a 1968/1969 Chevelle SS. Her father's car is a 2012 Camaro. Here's the final paintings...
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| "Chevy Breeds Racing #1"; Watercolor on 8" x 10" |
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| "Chevy Breeds Racing #2"; Watercolor on 8" x 10" paper |
I started out with this as an original photo to work with...
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| Original Photo worked from |
From there I worked out 3 options and this was the one that was decided upon...
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| Option #3- drawing that was chosen. |
It was decided that there would be a "grill focus" in the upper corner of each painting to make it special gift for each receiver. Here's one of the paintings in process...
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| "Chevy Breed Racing #1" Watercolor painting in process. |
Then I took what I thought were the finished paintings to show to the Sister/Daughter and there were a couple of things that needed to be fixed....
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| "Chevy Breeds Racing #2- What I thought was done? |
It turns out that the father's car had a black stripe for part of the hood. That was an easy fix. The other error that was discovered is that the brother's car now had a 496 engine instead of the 396 engine that was showing in some of the other photos that I was given. Oooopss! That was a bit more of a challenge. Because it's not so easy to erase or paint over with watercolor. I ended up doing a bit of improvising and this what was the result...
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| "Chevy Breeds Racing #2"; final Watercolor on 8" x 10" paper |
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