Wednesday 29 April 2015

The art of Osman Arik



Osman was born in Şabanözü, Çankırı, Turkey, in 1987. He completed his primary, high school and college education in Ankara and started Gazi University, Faculty of Education, Art Teacher Education Department in 2005. He graduated from Söbütay Özer and Erol Batırberk Painting Studios of the same department in 2009.

During his studies he stayed in the U.S.A for three months with a Work and Travel Program in 2008. He worked in Muzebus for three years, which is a joint project made by İstanbul Rahmi Koç Museum and Ministry of National Education. Within the scope of this project, he gave a high number of seminars throughout Turkey, mainly visiting village schools. He is currently painting in his own workshop.

“I have always had a passion for cars. Not unlike most other boys, I grew up trying to learn more about every new car I saw in the street and then doodling about the things I discovered about them. A turning point for me occurred when I was seven years old. We had won a car from a newspaper lottery. It was a Fiat Tempra – a relatively modest car – but very popular back then. I recall that my cousin, who is 6 years older then me, tried drawing a picture of that car, not quite getting the resemblance. Next, I decided to give it a go. I remember my surprise when I was able to easily replicate the car’s characteristic lines in a very simple drawing, in my very first serious attempt. That moment had a strong impact on my life. I started practicing drawing any car I could find, sometimes even from my head. I would try drawing the same car from different angles, trying to visualize how those angles would connect with one another. It was all quite clumsy at first. Then I naturally improved over time, with practice. By the time I graduated from college, I had already decided I wanted to be a painter of cars!
Still, it was not until 3 years ago that I started doing hyper realistic oil paintings of cars. Once I did, I was hooked. To me, hyper realism is the best way to capture the essence of their allure and to depict their most beautiful aspects on canvas.”

Well, we are sure you will love Osman's work. You can keep in touch with him on Facebook here.

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Monday 20 April 2015

Bruce Kaiser automotive artist



Automotive artist, Bruce Kaiser has been drawing, sketching and painting cars his whole life. He grew up in the 60s hanging out at the local A&W Drive-In on his bike and later with his first car.
It was the golden age of Detroit's great muscle cars and the images and sounds of hot cars under the lights at a local hamburger made a lasting impression and influence his car paintings to this day.

Kaiser strives to capture those perfect summer nights as he remembers them (maybe romanticized a little) in his paintings. The local drag strip had drag racing Friday nights and he spent many nights there trying to catch the excitement of 60s-70s funny cars and dragsters under the lights on film and now with brush and paint.
His paintings feature the great muscle cars and hot rods like GTOs, Camaros, Hemi-Cudas, Novas, Chevelle SS, Mustangs, 32 Ford coupes, Yenko Camaros, Super Bees, 40 Ford Coupes and many more.

Bruce likes to show the cars in his paintings as he remembers them as a kid, not as a pristine car, but as cars that were modified and raced like a SS Chevelle with mags or a 55 Chevy with cut out fenders.

Many of his hot rod and muscle car paintings are for sale as limited edition signed and numbered prints. They can be purchased at his web site here.

Bruce Kaiser also does car concept drawings for custom car builders like Posies Rods and Customs and is available to do renderings of your car project. It's helpful to see your project as an accurate drawing before you begin.

He is available If you would like to commission a one-of-a-kind painting of your car.

You can email him on; bkaiser@nycap.rr.com

Check out his website here.

Below you can get a taste of his work. Always respect copyright.

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Monday 13 April 2015

Paul Laguette


It's hard to classify Paul Laguette as just an automotive artist since he has spent the majority of 25 year career in the industry as a graphic designer. Most of it spent as an art director for various Motorsport magazines. 

His real passion though has always been illustration. Samples of his works can be found scattered among such top magazine titles as RACER, SportsCar, Road & Track, Motor Trend, Automobile, Porsche Panorama and Autosport.

If that isn't enough this native Southern Californian has even designed Daytona 500 Logos and the American Le Mans Logo, but to Paul Laguette nothing tops his two covers he designed for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 2014. One for the inaugural Indy Car road race and the other for the Indy 500.

When asked, Paul will to you that last year was his most enjoyable. As he told us, "It was because I started doodling on paper again. I went back to the basics".

If you're interested in Paul's work look no further than his Facebook page. He often posts his original doodles (as he calls them) for as little as $100!

You can follow Paul on his Facebook page here.
Lot more of his work can be found here.

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Monday 6 April 2015

Tom Pye, Metallic Memories


A British artist this week...

From Newcastle Upon Tyne in England Tom has always been around cars in some shape or form, either working with his Dad on cars, spending time at his Uncle’s garage growing up or drawing cars.

Tom has been drawing cars for as long as he can remember. His Dad was talented in drawing which Tom found inspiring and his dad would show him little tips which Tom believes that this early introduction to drawing helped him to hone his skills at an early age. Throughout his school years his peers associated him with his love of cars and his love of drawing; however it was his twin brother who went down the graphical/illustration route. Tom instead chose an engineering direction.

Although Tom still drew, it was not a prominent feature in his life as it is now. When he got spare time, or anytime he had pen and paper, he would sketch out cars from memory, but without a clear goal, these were little more than a doodle to pass time. This wasn’t down to lack of motivation or love for drawing; he didn’t really know what he was capable of.

With the boom of social media (mainly Facebook and Instagram), Tom began to see more car drawings, the kind of stuff that he had aspired to create and admired as a youngster. This wet his appetite to pick up the pencil for a little longer than a standard doodle. “There are so many talented, supportive and influential Automotive Artists out there” says Tom, ”It was through Instagram that I noticed an American artist (@Angryfntony) and he has a cartoony style, using markers to render, “I was in awe and that’s what rekindled my love for drawing” enthuses Tom.

Tom’s first commission piece was off the back of cartoony/caricature style drawing of a Ford Capri Mk2 he posted on his Facebook page in 2013. “People and companies began to comment and ask for their car to be drawn and it really snowballed from there” explains Tom who now has admirers and receives commissions from an international following.

The style of Tom’s work has evolved somewhat over the past couple of years, taking on more and more of a realistic approach. Although these take more time to produce, they are ultimately more rewarding according to Tom and each drawing is a learning curve. “It’s amazing how many times I think I’ve ruined a drawing but persevered and comes out really good. My wife says that I always panic that I have messed up before I have completed it, then it all comes together. I guess I do that a lot, I’m quite particular with the details so I am my own worst critic!” explains Tom. "I’m always proud of my finished work, and can see my skills improving all the time", he added.

Although he generally works on commissioned pieces, he is also working on a range of Super Touring cars from the late ‘90’s that will be available as prints. So far a Ford Mondeo of Rykard Rydell has been completed in between the steady stream of commission requests, though a BMW 320 STW is now under way.
As Tom says “My next drawing is always my best”

You can keep up with Tom's work and follow him on Facebook here.
Tom on Instagram; @Metallic_Memories.
On Twitter; @MetalliMemorie.
You can also contact Tom by email on; Metallicmemories.illustration@Gmail.com

Here are some of his work. Always respect copyright.

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