maxglitz

I've had a love for vintage cars since my youth. After retirement as a magazine art director, though, I plunged into full-time fine art with a focus on the southwest US (Though I'm in the Atlanta area). I began carving wooden vintage cars that became part of the frames for my small western landscape canvases. To get a better look at cars I'd seen in photos online, I started buying diecast models for reference and my collection is growing. Two years ago I was asked to create a large piece by the Booth Western Art Museum, largest such museum in the US, to take my small one-car/one-landscape pieces to a new level and created "Red Butte With Tourists," a six-foot-wide takeoff on a 17-foot painting by Maynard Dixon, called "Red Butte With Mountain Men." I replaced his string of Kit Carson's horsemen in the foreground with a line of vintage vehicles heading west in front of a painted butte that I photographed in NM. It was later shown in the Tucson Museum of Art. One of my two dimensional auto pieces has been purchased and is the first art bought for a new car museum in the area that has yet to break ground.

This wonderful, five-year-old post is why I registered here tonight. That and the fact that I collect diecast cars and also carve wooden vintage cars for my fine art mixed media works. Because I also create western art, this model conestoga just lit me up and I've looked at it and videos about it on several sites. Congrats on such a great job and thanks for the inspiration.