I got to see some excellent cars - some old favourites and some which I thought I'd never see - such as this Bedelia. I'd seen amazing period photos of these taken in Africa. The driver sits behind the passenger...
There were quite a few Coopers and other 500cc racers too. These are the sort of thing my Grandfather worked on during his time at Cooper...
This strange looking thing is a Triumph powered hill-climb car built by Tico Martini in 1962. He went on to build F3 and even F1 cars...
The campsite was full of interesting vehicles, among them this Citroen panel van (done on the iPad with the Adobe Ideas app) and rather handsome 1920's Renault...
As the day went on I managed to loosen up a bit. Quite pleased with this Sigma...
Managed to keep the loose work going the next day. Here's a Very large V8 engined Berliet...
... and one of my favourite cars, the JAP GN. Perfect proportions, exciting noise and the attention to detail in the build is staggering. I've taken a few photos which I'll be posting soon...
Here's a very pretty Vernon Derby - I only leaned about these recently. It has some lovely features such as wire wheels with integral drum brakes - a bit like the alloy versions on the Bugattis. There are a couple of photos of this on my flickr site too...
One last page of watercolour sketches. Two Austins and and Amilcar with a great wwoden boat-tailed body in the middle...
Lastly here's a page of quick thumbnails of interesting shapes which caught my eye over the weekend...
Hope you like them. I'll post the photos on Flickr soon. In the meantime - if you'd like to see some amazing period photos of cars like these I can't recommend The Old Motor blog highly enough - there's always something new and eye-popping to look at.
5 comments:
Thank you for posting these, I always look forward to your new posts, thank you for the Old Motor link too, it looks realy good.
Interesting about your grandfather working in Cooper's.
Very best wishes
Thanks Eric, you'll enjoy that site. Be sure to check out the oddball section - some truly bizarre photos there. Grandad repaired spitfires in the war, patched them up with anything he could find in the scrapyard - sometimes even using bits off German planes. He had some great stories about stealing German motorbikes and finding a Merc in a barn in Italy and enjoying a few days with his own transport untill the CO found out about it and had it for himself. After the war he worked at Cooper, supplying the 500s for Ken Tyrell when he was a driver and later working on the twini-mini, he also worked for Alan Brown and Coombs Jaguar in Guildford before starting his own garage.
A friend sent me the link to your iPad life drawings. Then I checked out all the other iPad posts and your comments on the apps. I'm just a newbie iPad artist but am obsessed with it. (yes yes yes all your drawings are magnificent but I'm in single-minded mode right now). I use penultimate a lot because it is quick, there is not enough offered so I go off on hours-long tangents (as happens in art rage and sketch book pro) and I love the conceit of lots of little journals that I'm working in. Thanks for showing me what is possible.
Thanks Patricia, I haven't thought of using Penultimate for sketching. I'll have to give it a go. DO you have a link to your work anywhere?
My blog is reclinerart.Posterous.com
Now don't shame me with the fantastic things you will end up doing on Penultimate.
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