Itinerant Air-Cooled

zabo wrote:

Sylvester wrote: Lo and behold someone got that Bus out of the pull a part! It won't die! I have the plates though!
http://atlanta.craigslist.org/nat/cto/1625541025.html

It was still at pull a part this weekend- seems a little fishy

Indeed it is, wonder if there was any takers?
VW VANAGON 1958 100

Latest one, BodD in the AIC Tour of America, 2010 7th lap. I started this a few weeks ago with an idea of a raffle to contribute to the annual server fund. If ya'll have a better idea for it to contribute to the server fund, let me know.

Sylvester wrote:

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Sylvester, what kind of paint do you recommend for painting chrome hubcaps? Oil?

BellePlaine wrote:Sylvester, what kind of paint do you recommend for painting chrome hubcaps? Oil?

I use an enamel primer, then an enamel base coat, like white, then I use whatever I have.

very cool!!!!

I am now doing old VW brochures, well sort of. I can't replicate a damn thing, so I make it my own. And another skeleton, my wife said he looked small, so I gave him hair, then set it on fire, and I was not thinking Johnny Blaze either. Nothing like a skeleton in the back of your Bug on fire.




Maybe next I will do some KdF action:



Or some Kombi love:

Another skeleton, JB is his name. This is for a bomb wing in Europe insignia, I will have to look up who it is, it has been awhile since I painted this one.

Good to see more of your art. Keep it goin'! Those old beetles and buses look funny without side view mirrors. The Itinerant Tour art is too cool.

Birdibus wrote:Good to see more of your art. Keep it goin'! Those old beetles and buses look funny without side view mirrors. The Itinerant Tour art is too cool.

I love doing it. Perhaps someday they will be as sough after as a Monet. "Oh Reginald, I just bough my first Sylvester hubcap at Sotherby's. It's one during his depression years, it is called "Flaming Skeleton in the back of a 1959 Beetle". I think I am becoming an Impressionist, such as:

Characteristics of Impressionist paintings include visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, the inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and unusual visual angles

Latest hubcap, inspired by the old VW brochure.



And again, another appearance by JB the skeleton. This was a real ratty hubcap, hence the bumps in the paint. Der Kleinbus is the mini-bus.

And another VW ad. This will say "VW Cabrolet" This was a very rusty hubcap.

Sylvester wrote:"Cabrolet" This was a very rusty hubcap.

"Cabrolet" or "Cabriolet"?

Rusty hubcap . . . the bane of the artist is challenging materials. My favorite difficult material was paper that sopped up ink like a bleeding sponge when I needed to do very fine straight lines.
Colin

Amskeptic wrote:

Sylvester wrote:"Cabrolet" This was a very rusty hubcap.

"Cabrolet" or "Cabriolet"?

Rusty hubcap . . . the bane of the artist is challenging materials. My favorite difficult material was paper that sopped up ink like a bleeding sponge when I needed to do very fine straight lines.
Colin

Spelling escapes me, but glad you pointed this out before I printed it on there.

Cabriolet or Cabrio: A type of convertible with only two doors, and thereby recalling the cabriolet carriage.

The curve of the cap, the indents, using latex on metal, is challenge enough. Lord help me when I start painting on more exotic materials such as canvas, paper, etc.

And just what Lord do you pray to "Art Cat" ? Just kiddin' and I do hope you adventure into the unknown media of canvas or paper, your free spirt of color and texture is inspiring to me. After Colins visit and advice of a bunch of useless vw parts, I will either take them to the dump, don,t want to, or paint them.

I was mistified by your post about physcrity (sp) on purpose . Do you think Im crazy because I needed to talk to someone about my daughters death? I have nobody to talk too that I trust. Please don,t be mean!