Wacky Arab Car - Special Desert Salvage Mod

This wacky Arab salvage mod is just plain funny. Your out in the middle of the desert with nothing to do and a car with barely anything on it but the basics. What more fun can than be.

Blues Art Car - Ray Charles and the Greats

I found this Blues Art Car photo painted for Honda by Artist Jack Poppitz, a self-taught outsider folk artist and carpenter living in Colorado, that usually works with old wood as a backdrop for his folk art. This car was part of a benefit auction held at the House of Blues.

Its covered with blues legends such as Ray Charles, B.B. King, Lead Belly, Walter "Furry" Lewis and J.B. Lenoir. Driving the hood of the Fit is a glorious depiction of blues guitarist Sam "Lightnin' " Hopkins, resplendent with angel wings flying."

Hot Glow in the Dark MINI Art Car

I found this hot Mini Cooper with an all reflective, vinyl sticker kit and a video on how it was all put together at Garage 419. This glow in the dark mini art car was created by Scott Chester at ACID STUDIOS and the result is simply stunning. The project was inspired by the BMW Art Car project between 1975 & 1999, where artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg (R.I.P.) made one of a kind works of art from BMWs’ finest automobiles.



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Art Car Calendar - Now Available for 2009

For those of you who can't get enough of art cars,  the 2009 art car calendars are now available at Philly Travel Nature Blog. They are fantastic!!!

Succubus

I've never agreed with the usual horny bat-winged demon-cheese that usually goes with the word "succubus", so this is my idea of a sex fiend :P This started out as two separate practice doodles on OC and I thought I'd combine them into a single piece, as you can see in the really nooby painting process below:
all in good fun :D

Pimp my Japanese Bike Ride - Robotech Lo-Rider

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All I can say is this is how you Pimp your Japanese Bike Ride all day long. Its live manga animation robotech with a dash of mutant and a pinch of lo-rider cool. And as you can see by all the lights, safety first for night riding

Pink Homeland Security Art Car For Sale

This Pink"Homeland Security" Art Car is 1995 Chevy Caprice station wagon that was part of the Checkpoint Dreamyourtopia installation at Burning Man. It has 125.000 miles, street legal passed Texas inspection and is for sale for around $2,000, O.B.O. Daniel is wanting to skip town and wants to unload to pink beast as fast as possible so email him at dadara@xs4all.nl and help him raise some money to get back home.

Egyptian Sunrise

Watercolor, 15" x 11"

Over The Ridge

Oil on canvas panel, 20" x 16"

Hunting wall street pirates with fire breathing mutant vehicle

Yep its Mutant Mondays and today's mutant vehicle is a two story pickup truck covered in neck ties and a fire cannon mounted on the back. I also love the attention to detail with the pink gas tank up top of the observation deck. Maybe the guy has given up his corporate job to pursue a career in pyrotechnics and is raising money for classes by selling his old neck ties. Or maybe its a corporate exec hunting party on the look out for rogue wall street pirates. One can only guess.

THE END OF 2008

George Bellows

2008 was a rough year for the type of assets that are vulnerable to market fluctuations.

40% of the value of the US stock market ($7.3 trillion) has simply evaporated. Major companies collapsed as the global credit system melted down and a wide variety of sophisticated financial instruments became untrustworthy overnight. Unemployment soared. The world will face some excruciating economic hardships over the next few years.

But there are other assets that don't lose their value regardless of how much markets fluctuate. The strength and insight behind that remarkable Bellows drawing stayed with him, and colored his perception of life, regardless of what was happening in the stock market that day.

In fact, some of the greatest artistic periods in human history arose during periods of great turmoil and strife. The golden age of Greece was forged in a period of bitter feuds between warring city states, when invasion by outside powers threatened to snuff out Greece altogether, and when an impoverished lower class was recovering from subjugation by the wealthy class. Here is Orson Welles' famous cuckoo clock speech from the Third Man:



Laurence Olivier said, "If you are an artist, you have to prove it."

Let's get to work.

WWJD? - What Whould Jesus Drive? A Jesus Art Car

It was Christmas yesterday or the global Jesus birthday celebration, even though there is some controversy surrounding the actual date of his birth. I am not trying to be sacrilegious in any way, but he does seem to be the worlds most influential God/Man in the universe for all time past present and future, and since this is an art car blog, I decided to answer the question WWJD? or What Would Jesus Drive? I don't know which one He would drive but I did find a few art cars that some of us down here would drive. For better or for worse here are the Jesus Cars.







by Christine P

by repowers

by seawallrunner

by San Diego Shooter

by Ice Nine

by wartnerchaney

by swishphotos

by niac180

by crazysanman

by g33kgrrl

by MR38

by Gigi Elmes

by hannah clan

by conformer

by Marshall Astor

by FlyingDevice

by Shirley Two Feathers

by Enrico Fuente

Batmobile Discovered in Christmas Gingerbread House

Hiding in a parade



On a recent trip to visit an amazing Christmas gingerbread house (see video) I discovered what I believe to be the real secret Batmobile hiding lair. It wasn't deep in some underground cave but in the most unsuspecting place imaginable. I discovered this Bat mobile Art Car replica (not shown here) in the garage of this incredible lit house which I had the pleasure of being dragged to on Christmas eve by my sister in law. Since I went to all this trouble to write this up I thought maybe there were more of these budget mods hiding around the country, so here they are.

Hiding out front


Hiding in Texas



Hiding at a VW convention


Hiding outdoors


Hiding in the front yard


Hiding in a trailer park

Porta Pottie Art Ruins Secret Mission

Totally off subject, off color and on Christmas eve but a good clean, fresh Porta Pottie is hard to find on a long road trip or at some public event. The best time to get in one is first thing in the morning when they are clean and the blue juice in the hole is freshly poured. These bad boys are not only functional but aesthetically pleasing, because you want people starring at the art when youre in there doing business. The whole idea is not to draw attention to your self in public when using the Porta Pottie, in fact if you can get in and out of there without anyone noticing, then mission accomplished. These artfully done units defeat the whole "secret potty mission" thing and ruin it for the rest of us who are trying to keep a low profile.






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