reworking the main car

Acrylics, difficult to blend, can create a rough time for you when you're doing gradual light changes with an unusual color and showing reflections in the painting itself. I'm reworking the main car  for the 3rd time.

working on a critical piece

Working with acrylics in layers is a challenge when you want realism. You fight with it's streaky nature.  But on the center-piece blue Bel-Aire, reflections on it's metallic skin are a must.

most challenging part

Doing the center-piece car- it's got to be painted just right.  I'm excited about it.  The Bel-aire is a beautiful car.  I hope I can do it justice- (the car at the bottom right).

Almost to the half-way point

Acrylics, being a difficult medium,  can always surprise you when it may occasionally act like an oil paint.  And getting a glass object to appear to partially reflect light is always a trial,  as the gas pump globes show.

it's wearing me out!

Exhausting.  But well worth it to look at.

continuing mural

Anyone out there that handles acrylics everyday is someone that I salute. You are working with the most difficult media there is -  it's a stretch for me in every way.  I wanted to post some pictures of where I'm at with the picture.

continued mural work

When you work with acrylic paint you've got to work fast to blend anything.  The hardest part to this painting was blending shades of gray to get the overhang area and far wall correct.