Peter Burdon

This week we are featuring an artist from Leeds, UK. Born in 1961, his obsession with cars started when was just two years old! He explains; "I regularly chewed the rubber tyres off my older brothers Corgi and dinky car toys much to his dismay".

Fortunately for Peter he progresses to custom painting the Corgis with left over paint from Airfix models, (again much to his brother's dismay)"I loved the custom car scene in the late seventies/early eighties with jacked up rear ends and under car lights shining on the rear axle, wolf race wheels with white lettering on the tyre side walls and metal flake paintwork...........I think I must have bought just about every custom car magazine available at the time" Peter commented.

He left school in 1977 with a GCE in art but decided against going to college in favour of getting a job. He really enjoyed art at school but he didn't actually get back involved with painting until several years later when he had settled down and started a family. Like lots of young couples with kids they struggled financially for a while so he decided to start painting again one Christmas to give them as gifts for family. Of Course they preferred the paintings to any gifts he had previously bought because they were personal and this became the norm for several years.

His two sons were both car mad from a young age so summer month weekends were spent looking for local car shows or hill climbs. "I started painting cars for them, more for fun than anything else but as they grew up I found less time to paint as my career in sales management progressed" added Peter.

He tried to pick up the paint brush again in recent years but it didn't quite work. Saying this, just before Christmas 2014 he started painting cars for Christmas presents for family and friends.

"The reaction I got from him and friends that saw it on face book was fantastic so in January this year I set up a face book page and offered to paint car portraits from photographs initially on BMW pages. I am amazed by the response I have had considering I have only been going for four months" commented Peter.

He is currently working to extend his portfolio to cover a wider range of cars which will include action shots in the very near future probably from hill climbs, etc.

Peter is still looking at this as a hobby but he hopes to turn it into a small business to take him into early semi retirement in the next few years.

You can follow Peter on Facebook here. If you would like to contact him, you can reach him via his email address; peter_burdon@yahoo.co.uk

You can enjoy some of Paul's work below. Always respect copyright.

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José Marques Art

Born in 1973, in the Portuguese city of Coimbra, José started at the age of four with a pencil reproduction of antique Portuguese paintings. As you can appreciate this we an unusually young for such advanced work.

He studied until highschool, taking the regular education at the time in visual education class. Meanwhile, he created many different kinds of drawings and paintings in different medias and styles.

At the age of fourteen, José left school and entered into one of the best lithography firms in Portugal as a lithographer apprentice. In the same year his work, his first oil painting, was featured at an exhibition held by the University Hospitals.

When he was 18 he continued working and managed to get the job as assistant designer at the publicity firm, Go Up Designers Lda. A year later he became the assistant  decoration designer at "Sonae Group-Continente Hipermarkets" and main decoration designer in "Palmela Cash Hipermarkets".

He attended two courses of industrial ceramics and ceramics painting, getting the certificate only in the second one. He then continued with this experience working on granite.

José has also worked on custom work on bikes in the bike garage "Big Twin-The chopper specialist".

Meanwile, the complexity and quality of the artworks evolved visibly, and at the age of twenty he started selling his works to friends. It wasn't long before he became freelance and started making his living from his art.

This new era brought all types of work in various areas, styles, techniques and materials. Artworks made to order or for exhibitions as well as Fine arts, portrait and caricature. He continued with some vehicle and objects customization, design, publicity, outdoors, bodypaint, illustration, stage sets, panoramic decoration, sculpture and much more.

As you can appreciate he has a field of experience in various styles and techniques and continues experimenting today with naif, cubism and abstract, sketch, cartoon, impressionism and realism. Although he has selected hyperrealism as his preferred style for now.

In between everything else he has also been experimenting with clay, wood and stone sculpturing as well as making and decorating scale models.

You can follow José on Facebook here.

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Below you can enjoy some of his pieces. Always respect copyright.

The art of Raphael Arnoux

Today we have another great artist. This time from France...

Raphael Arnoux was born in the early 70's in Pontarlier, France. He has been drawing since a very young age, but he eventually discovered oil painting in the 80's.

Without any kind of special training in fine arts or other schools, he has developed his skills with help from books, exhibitions and contacts with other artists.

"my first paintings were still lifes, flowers and other landscapes" comments Raphael. His personal interest and attraction to cars, he eventually started painting them in the late 80's and now majority of his work is dedicated to autoart. (We like that)

Whether it is born of the brush or pencil cars take life on the canvas or on the sheet. "My work is based on realism, framing and reflections. Artists such as Mirgalet, Willy Richard Paul Braq, Hideki Yoshida ... my big influence" explains Raphael.

Absolute fan of anything with a prancing horse, he continues for the Ferrari s for a while to come yet. He normally paints in formats of 50cmx30cm- 50cmx60cm which we find a good size.

He has exhibited many of his pieces at the premises of the Swiss car manufacturer Franco Sbarro, and in various solo and group exhibitions in France.

You can get in touch with Raphael via email here; raphael.arnoux@wanadoo.fr

Start to follow him on Facebook here.

See more of his work on this video.

Below you can enjoy some of his pieces. Always respect copyright.

More artists and autoart here; www.in2motorsports.com

The art of Yu Jet Cheah

Today we have a young talented artist from Singapore. Yu Jet Cheah, is only 13 years old and studying at school. He seems to have a flair for art and is doing his utmost to make the best out of it.

"I have taken to drawing cars since I was very young and really enjoy it" explains Yu. He draws cars using water colour pencils, Copic markers and pencils for drawings of black and white.

"I will be considering painting using watercolour, but I haven't quite got the hang of it yet". Commented Yu.

If you wish to check out more of his artworks, you can find him on Instagram at jetau2o4rt. 

Also look out and follow him on Facebook at Jet Auto-Art. If you just send a friends requests, he will get back to you.

Before we look at some of his work, we like to take this opportunity to wish Yu Jet Happy 14th Birthday on May 16th!

You can enjoy some of his work below. Always respect copyright.

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Realistic Car Drawings

This week our featured is from Warsaw in Poland. 30 year old Przemek Więcek has been drawing all his life and has been drawing professionally for the past 5 years.

Although his specialty is his passion of cars, he is happy to draw most subjects on commission.

"In my drawings I use markers, pencils, chalk, ink and sometimes paint. Recently I have been working more with paints that allows me to do larger pieces" commented Przemek.

He is using social media such as Facebook and Instagram as a big worldwide gallery where he posts most of his recent works. He is getting a lot on interest from our new artists from all around the world, also looking for his suggestions and advice.

"Cars are my favorite theme" he said. He is a huge fan of the Mercedes 300SL Gullwing. "Really like the style of this car very unique doors and awesome flawless line" he mentioned. "I also really like the aggresive line that SLS brings keeping the Gullwing legend alive". He is also a big fan of the SLR 722 McLaren.

A normal piece could take him around 10 hours to complete although things have been different on the more detailed pieces which could take up to 50 hours to finish.

"As much as I love to draw, I also love to talk to people who love cars and share experiences and ideas" he mentioned.

He is inspired by people who I see smiling holding his drawings standing next to their 500hp"toy"

His dream is to have his own small gallery where he would sell his drawings and painting .

He also enjoys attending car shows all over the world meeting car enthusiasts as well as drawing cars all the time.

"The best job in the world for me is to work drawing cars " he added.

You can contact him here.

Follow him on Facebook here.

On Instagram here.

On Deviantart here.

Below you can enjoy some of his excellent work. Always respect copyright.

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