Felipe Massa, Ferrari F2008. 50x40cm, oil on canvas. This painting is for sale by auction at the Grand Prix Dinner event, hosted by Rob Smedley on 2nd June 2018. If you aren’t attending the event you can still place a bid by email, follow the instructions here.
Ayrton Senna winning the 1990 Monaco GP. Oil on paper, 45x30cm. This framed painting is for sale by auction at the Grand Prix Dinner event, hosted by Rob Smedley on 2nd June 2018. If you aren’t attending the event you can still place a bid by email, follow the instructions here.
In 1978, after 11 years away from motorcycle racing, Mike Hailwood made a comeback in the Formula I race at the Isle of Man TT. Riding a Ducati 900SS, few gave him a chance of being competitive. But he only went and won it!
I think this painting is more or less finished now. I might make more adjustments later to the catchfence, but I’m a lot happier with it now. The problem was in not considering what was behind the fence. Since it is semi-transparent it’s important to be disciplined and to figure out the perspective of the…
This painting is looking a lot more lively now. I’ve worked on adding some variation in the red areas. That red colour is mostly cadmium red with a little bit of cadmium yellow, so I just mixed a big blob on the palette and started adding individual brushstrokes here and there with slightly more or…
I’ve got back to this painting at last, after an enforced lay-off of a few days. I was doing a portrait commission in the meantime so it was something constructive at least. As you can see, I’ve got the background into some kind of shape today. The catchfence on the right looks more like a…
Some days you win and some days you footle about not getting very far. I was hoping to do something with the background today, but instead I spent several hours pushing paint around messing about with the tyres, and I’m not much happier with it than I was at breakfast time. I did get some…
I’m making great progress with this painting today. I scraped back the yellow helmet and restated it, that’s an advantage of painting in oils. I’m pretty confident at this stage that things are in the right place and the plan to stick to three values is working out, I can now think more about refining…
I didn’t get as far with this as I’d hoped yesterday, I got distracted by something on the TV – congratulations Valtteri Bottas on your first win! I’m still making corrections about where everything goes. I had to move the airbox a bit to the right, move the front tyre a bit further right etc….
I have a four days off work in a row so it’s a good time to get stuck into the painting of Lewis Hamilton in Australia 2008 that I have been planning. It’s on hardboard, prepared with white gesso. The gesso is a thick undercoat that stops my oil paint from sinking into the hardboard….
