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How to turn a lime into an orange 🍊?

The real question is, how to change a part-finished and previously forgotten watercolour into a totally different coloured acrylic? The concept here was to go to an “indirect” painting technique. Placing the shading in monochrome, and on top layering transparent colour. But wouldn’t watercolour would reactivate and move when wet? Correct! So you have to be fast with that initial acrylic…

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New Year New Porsche New Ducati

OK so it’s the 19th Jan so no longer the New Year but it is my first post so it counts in my book. First off, here’s a re-do of an existing design – at first glance it might not look any different if you’d seen the previous version but it has had a fair bit done in terms of cleaning up edges, stray brush strokes, etc. The reason for this was so that I could publish it to Redbubble as a…

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Welcome to Steve’s art blog. I’m a life-long petrolhead who can’t afford to have a collection of supercars in the garage, so instead I decorate the walls with paintings of them. I sell paintings directly from www.stevekiddart.com and can also do bespoke commissions. You can buy artwork either directly from me (Paypal accepted) or through these links below. Why the cow ? My main site (and shop)…

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2023 Review - 1 year in 1 minute

Here’s a review of my past year in art. It’s a video, one year compressed into one minute. And at the end (you can fast forward if you’re pressed for time) is a sneak peek of a couple of unfinished projects which will be shown next year. Happy New Year everyone, all the best for 2024

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Lil Red Vespa

Really little. I’ve painted a little toy Vespa to copy my own 1:1 scale version. I used to make models and had the proper paints but this time it was my regular acrylic paint I had to hand. They don’t stick quite as well to the shiny plastic but as it’s just going to sit on the shelf and don’t need to be all that resilient. So, what have I done exactly? Painted everything basically, it wasn’t…

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Porsche Boxster Watercolour

This is an A3 watercolour of a Porsche “Racing Yellow” Boxster. If you’ve followed me for a while you might recognise the car. I’ve painted the exact same car before with acrylic on canvas. That painting has gone to a new owner now so a replacement was needed for my gallery 😀

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Jim Clark and other F1 driver portraits

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Audi R8 V10 Sideblade

The Audi R8 was quite a stunning bit of design when it came out, it looked quite similar to the conceptual versions – though not at all like the Le Mans racer from which it took the name R8. A major feature of the design was the side-blade. Some had it body-coloured whereas my personal favourite is to have it in the black carbon fibre against the white paint. It’s a major feature, why hide…

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New supplies and an inked racoon

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Raaar scary!!

Raaar, I have got claws. I am scary. Stop laughing. I am scary I am. Dip pen ink drawing with an acrylic wash background. I used a Speedball small nib dip pen on Bristol Smooth Board. A4 size. Winsor and Newton black and sepia inks. W&N sap green and buff titanium for the background. Source photo from Unsplash / Gary Bendig

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And now for something completely different…

This isn’t an art post, but the engineer that designed this road was undoubtedly an artist. This was a surprisingly excellent road I found in California back in 2015. Many miles of curves, a bit lumpy at the start (on the way up) but then smoothed nicely.

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Colin Chapman

Adding power makes you faster on the straights. Subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere. Colin Chapman Colin Chapman was quite the character, I’m surprised no-one has made a film about him but it wouldn’t be a complete hero story I’m guessing. There’s no doubt he was a genius in many ways, but ruthless could be another fitting word. He died too young, and even the events around his…

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Beep Beep

Beep beep – it’s the Road Runner Superbird. I had a toy car of this when I was a kid. I didn’t care that it had a 7 litre V8. I didn’t care that it had 425bhp and was highly modified by the factory. I didn’t even care that it could do the run to 60 in 5.5 seconds. What made this the coolest car was the cartoon Road Runner on it’s massive rear wing – that was all that mattered to me. 10” x…

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Sixty Years Celebrations and a Smoother Motorbike

A couple of updates for the blog just in case anyone still looks here… the stats make me think that WordPress is a bit of a dead duck these days, beaten to submission by today’s social media posts of 10 second video clips. Perhaps one day these blog posts will be looked at in much the same way that someone may discover an old book on the shelf, turn the pages, or perhaps find a 12″ vinyl record,…

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Lovely leafy 911

The instantly recognisable classic Porsche 911 in Guards Red. Traditional painting in acrylic on 10″x 8″ canvas board. Shiny cars reflect their surroundings and re-shape them to give form to the 3D surface. That was the intention here on this detail painting.

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Ferrari F40 - updated vector design

Close on the heels of my previous F40 post here’s a re-vamped version of a previous digital design. I’m going to add more of these square format prints into my art shop on stevekiddart.com in two forms. My usual fine art print format and something new for me, foam board prints. These come with a hanging kit and don’t require a frame so whilst they are slightly higher in price the total cost…

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Ferrari F40 Engine Bay

This was painted in sections and finished off with coloured pencils. I will admit, trying to represent the translucent perspex cover with reflections and shaded sections was a bit tricky. On the car, the Ferrari F40 – a truly iconic supercar, instantly recognisable and there was nothing quite like it before or since. Underneath this perspex engine cover lies a 2.9 Litre V8, which is relatively…