Last Saturday, I had the opportunity to spend the day among some beautiful cars and paint them at the annual Corte Madera Lions Club Car Show. I brought my portable easel, journal, and watercolors and started painting. Here are my results:
Each watercolor took me between 20-25 minutes in my journal. I start out with a rough sketch using a light gray Tombow dual brush pen, then add color with my watercolors, and then add some linework using a waterproof Pentel Finito pen.
If you have a car and would like a custom watercolor painting of it, please reach out to me – as I do commissions. See details here.
I also placed the paintings in a virtual gallery on my site Galeryst.
Thank you to the Corte Mader Lions Club for the opportunity to paint these beautiful cars!
What can I paint for you today?
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