anybody into art?? a little long but please read.

[neal zimmerman <neal.zimmerman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, I have been away from my painting since June and now that winter
is here I want to do some oil  paintings. I have painted my whole life
and in my humble opinion, I am  pretty good. My teacher at school
doesn't understand why I don't get into a gallery, and try to sell ,
but that's a whole different topic on insecurity  to discuss with my
psychiatrist. LOL.
  I have never taken on painting cars as a subject matter, and i would
like to give it a shot, so if anybody has some nice shots of their
62-65 mopars in action they could send me as starting point take offs
for oil paintings, I would gift one of the paintings back to you,
shipping to be figured out at that point. This will let me get around
copyright infringements from using "famous" drag race photos, which
seems to be rather epidemic from  " drag race art" google searches on
the internet. Unless they are giving royalties to the photographer, i
don't see how they are selling prints, drawings, watercolors, etc.
based on them, but that a separate topic..
  I do have some guidelines when selecting your photos to send to me.
    1) I don't care if they are color or black and white, I can work from either
     2) Some form of action would be best rather than a static shot
sitting in your driveway. Maybe some shots at the drag-strip, or
driving down a street in your town past shops, trees, etc. What i am
trying to say is the photo should be interesting in some way , to give
me something to work with and add an interesting background to the
painting. Think: timing towers,starting lights,rescue vehicles,
crowds, dogs,old buildings, street lamps,, etc.  The car doesn't have
to necessarily be rolling, but the background should have something
interesting to it. ( please no photos sitting in front of a locomotive
or a fighter plane, that's been played out)
       3) Value variety is good; Value is the lightness or darkness of
an area. Imagine a  grey-scale from pure white to pure black. A high (
light) value photo just looks washed out and foggy, a variety of
values gives me stuff to play with ( think night shots under the
lights for etc. ) This is the reason landscape painters generally
prefer morning or evening as opposed to high noon, it makes nice
shadows. If you want to see a color photo in a grey scale get a piece
of clear red plastic and put it over the photo, it will kill the color
and let you see more of  what I am talking about.
         4) My style is somewhat loose so these won't look like
photographs when they are done and it might take me  awhile to
complete, several weeks to a month
           5) older non-copyrighted photos from your earlier years
would be fine too, they don't need to be from your current car, maybe
some old drag race shots from the 60s or 70s  that you took.
          6) lastly, don't over-think it, they don't need to be
"'good"  professional  quality photographs with super clarity and
detail, by the time i am done they will be completely transformed
anyway. I don't even mind if they are a little blurry.
    Hope a few of you take me up on this and you could get a nice
painting to hang on your shop wall
   Thanks,
  Neal Zimmerman, Eugene Oregon

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