Skip’s Old Ford

Here’s the photo I took of Skip’s Old Ford pickup, which I rendered in Procreate. He told me the year, but now I’m not sure he said 1967 or 1968.  This guide might help the curious.

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Heading Northwest out of Merced

Last Saturday I rode my bike downtown to Art Hop passing the depot, where I snapped a photo with my iPhone which I used as my reference photo in another side by side, freehand, iPad drawing in Procreate with a Sty-HD stylus.

Train heading northwest

Taxi in front of Hemingway’s Finca Vigía in Cuba

Like I said, they’re everywhere; well, in Cuba at least. I snapped a shot of this enormous Cadillac taxi, in front of Finca Vigía, a museum now, where Ernest Heminingway lived from 1939 to 1960. The Finca is located in San Francisco de Paula, a small town about 10 miles from Havana.
Here’s a rendering of that taxi done in Procreate with a Sty-HD stylus using the photo referenced above…side by side, freehand.
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They’re Everywhere…

…and there’s even a Facebook page: Carros Clásicos de Cuba! So, on our two flights back home, I put stylus to screen in Procreate for a side by side freehand guided by a photo that Annyth took with her iPhone. Habana-clásico

Ida and the Polish Countryside

A couple of nights ago we watched Ida, a 2013 Polish drama film directed by Paweł Pawlikowski and written by Pawlikowski and Rebecca Lenkiewicz. I went back in search of images and found this one, which I used as my reference photo for a drawing in Procreate.

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Schwa

Say, Eh! Come on, say it again like you mean it, EH!
Now lower your head into your chest, turn off the lights, go under water, and in a single, brief exhalation frame EH with PHL on one side and GM on the other.
There! Phlegm.
Ok, you can return to your regularly scheduled programming now.

Lonely Vowel

1969 Chevrolet Wagon in Ragsdale

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Side by side, rough, quick freehand in Procreate with Pencil by Fifty Three of this (my own) iPhone image.

1969 Chevrolet Wagons reference.

Progress video.

Mayberry Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT)

Aunt Bee, I know it’s late, but I’m’a swing by’n pick up piece’at pie.

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Technical: I found the reference photo on Google by doing a search of images. I displayed it on my large desktop monitor while I sketched it free hand on my iPad using Procreate. Here are the two images. Sure I would do things differently, if given another chance. I could go back and do more, but I called it quits at a point along the way.

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Old Ford @ K & 26th in Merced, CA

This beauty catches my eye every time I ride or drive by. I couldn’t resist the urge to photograph it last night on the way to the 17th Street Public House so that I could render it today.

Anyone know what year it might be? (thanks for the clue Jim; it’s a 1950.)

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