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[cdrewett]

The cutaway drawings thread has been absolutely fascinating. So unless it's been done before let's start one on automobile artists. Gordon Crosby is obviously up there with the immortals, but not so much is known of the work of Hans Liska. His reputation is mostly as a war artist, following the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe, but after the war he produced two wonderful books for Mercedes Benz, Das Automobil und die Mode, The Automobile and Fashion, and a sketchbook history of the firm up to 1953. Most dramatic picture is the 300SL of Karl Kling colliding with a vulture in the 1952 Carrera Panamericana.
My father was presented with copies when he picked up a new 300SL from Stuttgart in 1956, and I treasure them.
Chris

[Tim Murray]

Liska features in this earlier thread on another artist. There's a useful potted biography of him by Frank Barrett and Gary Doyle in post 31:

Walter Gotschke

Edited by Tim Murray, 18 May 2009 - 09:16.

[Alan Cox]

Along with his son Graham, my two favourite motor sport artists:

http://forums.autosp...=michael turner

Edited by Alan Cox, 18 May 2009 - 10:47.

[D-Type]

Add there's TNF member Andrew Kitson http://www.andrewkitson.com/

[Patrick Fletcher]

Worthy of more than a quick look http://www.laurencebrownlie.com

Edited by Patrick Fletcher, 18 May 2009 - 11:50.

[Miles Fenton]

Here are some of my paintings etc.
Miles Fenton

Visit My Website

[LOLE]

See my paintings on:

http://www.carlosghys.be/

[sterling49]

There is some lovely work on your site Carlos, I notice that just a few of the photos were taken just up the road from me The Ayrton painting is quite poignant.

[T54]

I love Gordon-Crosby and Hans Liska...

[raceannouncer2003]

Although he says "...I retired from producing automotive art about five years ago...", Kane Rogers from Vancouver has always been another favourite of mine. Here is his website:

http://www.kanerogers.com/

Vince H.

Edited by raceannouncer2003, 19 May 2009 - 03:33.

[alansart]

Along with his son Graham, my two favourite motor sport artists:

http://forums.autosp...=michael turner

And mine.

I also like Craig Warwick's work

http://www.craigwarwick.com/

[kevthedrummer]

I think Crosby's work is extraordinary. I also love Juan Carlos Ferrigno's paintings - http://www.plannerse...rigno/original/

[Fiorentina 1]

Hector Cademartori is by far the best of the best! I have a bunch of his prints around my house. I also love John Ketchell's The Power of Porsche in my house. That is a great piece I bought at Alex Reede's and had shipped to the USA. It was a must have!

[JacnGille]

I only have one artist print. Its Nicholas Watts' Ragged Edge, his tribute to Gilles Villeneuve.

[tonyb]

Paul Dove is an upcoming young UK west country artist ...

[f1steveuk]

Well Arthur Benjamins hides on here somewhere, but I've always liked his work, and he's done book covers for me, so I'm more than a tad biased!

While a motor museum curator, I once had a visit from a very nice "old boy" who looked around, mentioned some of the cars, then mentioned he was a painter. After a while he agreed to return one day with some of his pictures. My jaw dropped when he put his work out and I saw the signature Paddy Nevin, the work was amazing, and I have always thought since that when it appeared in magazines, the reproduction did nothing to show how fine his work was/is.

[bobbo-ijbema]

painting/posting a car a day for a year
car-a-day

[B Squared]

Carlo Demand is worthy of mention. Gary Doyle (also authored Jimmy Murphy: King of the Boards) did a book on Demand titled: Carlo Demand in Motion and Color: Automobile Racing 1895-1956. My Dad has it in his collection and has many beautiful pieces in it. He also was an aviation artist.

http://www.lmgauto.c...and/demand.html

Brian

[Tony Matthews]

painting/posting a car a day for a year
car-a-day

Rob, what lovely little paintings! You really seem to have found your own uniqus style, I'm so pleased to see them. It's brought tears to my eyes...

[bobbo-ijbema]

Rob, what lovely little paintings! You really seem to have found your own uniqus style, I'm so pleased to see them. It's brought tears to my eyes...

hi tony
praise indeed from my childhood hero!
i remember when i was 14 drooling over your ferrari 312t cut away
man i tried to paint that thing...aaargh impossible
that explains why i paint like i do,
free and easy
cheers mate

[alansart]

Like the Cutaway thread, this one is bringing out all sorts of artwork that I would have never seen.

A big

[Kpy]

Two favourites of mine, Geo Ham and Rob Roy:
http://pagesperso-or...follezougeoham/
http://www.art-robroy.com/index_en.htm

[Jones Foyer]

I'm at art elitist, so I'll try to refrain from listing automotive artists that I abhor (several).

My favorite is definitely Michael Turner. I also love the works of Peter Helck.

Peter Helck

[Manel Baró]

I remember with afection the lovely double-page watercolour classic car paints of Toby Nippel published by R&T on the 60's.
Nowadays, perhaps García, A. de la María or N. Watts are good examples of the classic art applied to the automotive subjects, following the school of G. Crosby, B. de Grineau and the Turner's

[macoran]

Hector Luis Bergandi painted quite a few paintings to accompany articles written by......
now....I am testing my memory here...I believe John Lamm and Pete Egan maybe Pete Lyon
in Road & Track years ago.

When I was compiling my personal F1 Encyclopedia of EVERY F1 car ever, I used his painting of
the '68 S African GP Team Tyrrell Matra in lieu of a proper photograph.


Visit his site here :
http://www.hlbergandi.com/index.html
I believe this is a Bergandi as well

Edited by macoran, 21 May 2009 - 12:52.

[macoran]

Skodaman has a nice blog with lots of paintings as well.
http://blog.seniorennet.be/skodaman/

[roadmap]

TONY SMITH . I love his work

[fbarrett]

Friends:

I'm fortunate enough to have several original paintings by my old friend Mike Mate, so I thought I'd introduce him to you...



Mike was doing architectural renderings in the early 1970s when I met him, and we worked together on club publications. He finally switched to full-time automotive work and produced the annual poster art for the Colorado Grand for years. His work has appeared in major magazines, including Road & Track, etc. He lives here in Denver, Colorado, and has done many private commissions for major collectors. His e-mail address is mikemate@comcast.net. Will try to post a couple of other images later.

Frank

Edited by fbarrett, 25 June 2009 - 16:25.

[fbarrett]

Here's an example of Mike's Ferrari work:



I neglected to mention in the earlier post that Mike also styled the body of the Maxton sports car, built circa 1990 by our mutual friend Bob Sutherland.

Frank

Edited by fbarrett, 25 June 2009 - 16:32.

[Jones Foyer]

Have to post my newest piece here. Shameless, I know.

A friend of mine put out a book last year with some of the best hot rod artists in the business, called Masters Of Chicken Scratch. He made space for me in his new book, so I have to do some hot rods.

The concept behind this one is a guy who decides to take advantage of the rules in a low-ride coupe contest where the height of the car is measured by the distance from the roof to the road. The story has a sad ending when he drives the car to Bonneville during a particularly wet season and drowned in brine. But, it's all just concept anyway...maybe someone will be inspired to actually try and build one.

[Andrew Kitson]

Nice work by Mike there, good figure work in the background. Unusual piece there Jonesfoyer!...good reflection in the foreground.

[Paul Parker]

I have not read through all the posts so forgive me if I've missed it but nobody seems to have mentioned Dexter Brown yet.

[Arjan de Roos]

Of course some work of Hideki Yoshida should be mentioned!