Category: Car Art Blog

November Car Art

Wow – It’s hard to believe, but 2022 is nearly over! This time of year, it’s difficult for me to share very much of what I’ve been working on because most of it will be given as Christmas gifts. I can share a few things, however, in this November car art recap! I’ve been experimenting…
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October Car Art

Just like that, October comes to a close! We’re starting to wind down the year and as fall sets in and the weather begins to change here in Michigan, I’m preparing for a busy Christmas season. We only have one more show this year: an art and craft show in December. Hopefully, It’ll be a…
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September Car Art

September was a great month for us! One of the biggest and greatest car shows in Michigan – the Frankenmuth Auto Fest – takes place the weekend after Labor Day and this was our second year vending there. It’s a truly incredible event with well over 2,000 cars in attendance. I was fortunate enough to…
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August Car Art

The weather is starting to cool down from the hot summer, and the smell of unregulated hydrocarbons is filling the air! August was a good month for us, but I had to tone it down a little bit in light of some day job effort that was necessary. Here’s a recap of our August car…
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July Car Art

July has been a busy month! In fact, this year, we’ve done over twenty times the business that we had done at the same time last year! We’re definitely growing and I’m extremely grateful to everyone who has supported us this year so far. It’s a huge pleasure to be able to share my work…
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Hot Rod Coasters

Last week, we set up at in Flint for the Sloan Auto Fair and sold hot rod art on the street. Between talking with customers, I like to get a couple doodles in and last week I tried some new mediums with these hot rod coasters. This is an early ’30s Ford hot rod that…
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Antique Racer Drawing

Sometimes when I’m set up at a show to sell art, I’ll get some down time between customers. This gives me a little bit of an opportunity to get a quick sketch in. Last weekend, we were set up in Imlay City at an antique festival and I sketched out this antique racer drawing. I…
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1961 Morgan Drawings

These 1961 Morgan drawings made for a very cool project! These two drawings represent the before and after conditions of this beautiful car around its restoration. The blue version represents the car as it was before, and the yellow drawing represents the car now. This was a challenging car to draw because Morgan used a…
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House Portraits

I love drawing cars, and that’s what I’ve drawn since I was a kid. Mechanical objects make sense to my brain, where people and character artwork tends to not make sense to me. One of the most fun things about drawing cars for people is the sentimental reaction I get when I deliver a drawing…
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Oxford Gravel Truck Drawing

This summer, my town of Oxford, Michigan is sponsoring an art gallery to display local artists’ work at our Concerts in the Park music series. The theme is to honor the town itself and Oxford is actually the gravel capital of the world. We have several gravel quarries in the area and gravel train trucks…
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