Spent the week-end in bed with a heavy cold – once a cold gets up and running there’s nothing much one can do, except lie down and take the medicine!  Even when I’m losing the will to live I find it really difficult to “Play the patient” – it’s just so boring and a complete waste of time!  Anyway being the bad patient that I am, I’ll always look to keep going (even though I’m lying down) – so I spent a couple of hours with the ink and paper again and I did another view of the Maserati engine- … Continue reading Maserati 4 CLT – second version – Ink on paper

It’s ages since I did some “plain old” sketching, so I passed a coupe of hours over the week-end working on this picture of a Maserati 4CLT power-plant using ink on heavy watercolor paper.  I have to say it’s very satisfying to capture the essence of the subject using just line and some cross-hatching.  I was going to introduce some washes for color, but I think I’ll leave the lines and the white of the paper speak for themselves.  The Maserati 4CLT was the car Fangio (then an unknown quantity from Argentina) used in 1949 to burst onto the world … Continue reading Maserati 4 CLT – Ink on paper