Painting is just drawing in a different medium

So this has nothing to do with class, but thought I'd post a pic of Tony getting painted black. This is what I disappear on weekends to do.

GT-40 I get to paint

JAD Ingres

JAD Ingres 1835-1840
I thought I'd pick this and put it on here b/c its pretty related to what we're working with in class and its by Ingres. The drapery is amazing the shadows up front are nice and dark and the further parts of the figure are in space the more crisp the lines. I like that it is unfinished and you can  see that Ingres left the figures head for last, I've heard he apparently spent hours upon hours on the face.

Using line variation to define body lines

How line makes or brakes a car

My dads 67 cobra roadster, fifth gen. built and designed himself. (Its a kit, which means you decide what kind of frame, engine, trasmission, and everything else your going to put into it) 
I've always been attracted to cars like this. But when I got my first car, I noticed that in general, it shares some characteristic qualities with the cobra. Cute rounded headlights, the circular mouth, dramatic bunched up quarters panels, as though ready to spring. But I also noticed the cobra and my car are 2 totally different cars with completely different attitudes. Although they share many similarities, theres one small detail that changes everything about them. The lines. Their body lines ultimately determine the shape, or illusion of shape in the car's bodystyle.

     

Although I've dismantled everything in this particular picture, you can automatically pick out the traits these 2 cars share. This is Tony btw. He's my second car. (The crankshaft in the engine is done after the oil pickup broke off in the pan, so hopefully by christmas I'll get time to rebuild it and bring him back to school with me) The lines running down the crest of the front quarter panels are less rounded than the cobra, they don't curve as dramatically on the rear end. The hood has some interest going on. Tony has a more reserved almost shy quality to me than the cobra, which is pure sexy & badass. The line really develops the cars personality. My car technologically speaking was no big step forward when it was first introduced in the States, but for many ppl, b/c of its attractive design, it is worth finding and restoring. I am just astonished at how something so seemingly small and minute like line can create such an impact in the appearance of two cars that would have otherwise looked very much alike. It really just blows my mind. The porshe 550 is another good example to compare alongside these cars. Again verrrry similar traits, but the way the designer flared and tapered the lines just changes up the body style.

*Three Point Perspective

M.C. Escher's "Relativity"

*Two Point Perspective

Claudia Velasco "Untitled"