This has to be one of the coolest couches I have seen. I came across it today on one of my news feeds. This one of a kind automotive couch is entirely hand made in metal with sunset orange pearl automotive paint and black leather upholstery. It measures 168″ long and 45″ wide.
Artist Fred Bailey created it. Fred does it all; he is an artist, sculptor, welder, fabricator and more.
The Hot Rod Couch was for sale on eBay at a time for around $45,000.
Oh yes, and the lights work too!!!!
The April contest winner comes from New Tazewell, TN. They chose to win the “1932 Ford Victoria” artwork.
I was surprised when I found out that the same person who won this contest also won the January 2009 contest. I don’t think that has ever happen before.
Enter today for your chance to win some horsepower for your walls!
I have just finished adding the 1949 Cadillac Hood Ornament artwork to my site. In a few earlier posts, I showed you a line work example and then later a sample of the artwork just before sending off for a color proof. The finished artwork comes in a big 20″ x 20″ size.
This is a new color version of the custom TATA Nano I did earlier.
I posted the custom Nano artwork images in my Flickr account and someone commented that they were planning on buying one and was curious to see how the custom black/orange version would look in sunshine yellow instead of the orange. Sunshine yellow is one of the Nano’s factory colors.
In the majority of my artwork I use many different fades, so changing colors is not so easy. But on the Nano artwork I only used two fades to make up the orange, which made changing the colors easier.
That being the case, I did one up for them to see. What do you like best, the sunshine yellow version or the orange version?
The February contest winner comes from Arkadelphia, AR. They chose to win the “1929 Ford Truck” artwork.
Enter today for your chance to win some horsepower for your walls!
Ed “Big Daddy” Roth left us on this day (April 4th) back in 2001.
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I got to meet and work with him around 1999-2000. The time I spent with him was like a dream come true.
I like this video about how and where they found his Orbitron show car. See the article “The Saga Ed Roth’s Long Lost Orbitron” for more on this story.
For more about Big Daddy visit EdRoth.com, for more about his Show Cars stop by MrGasser.com, and then drop by RatFink.org, while you are there say hey to Moldy Marvin for me.
I added the color and shading to the new 1962 Thunderbird tail light artwork.
As with every new artwork I do, the next step is to get a proof made so I can check the color.
I have been working on more new automotive artwork this week. The line work is about finished and now its time to add the color.
Any guesses on the make, model and year?
I added the color and shading to the new hood ornament piece.
My next step is to get a proof made so I can check the color, as it will look in the final print.
I have been working on this new hood ornament piece. The initial line work is finished, now I need to go back and do touch-ups before adding color.
Can you tell what this hood ornament goes on?
