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Title: Desert Rental painting
Post by: deathsled on June 01, 2018, 06:55:51 AM
Here is my just completed painting I commissioned of me driving my Hertz on a California desert road. I called it "Desert Rental" which the artist graciously accepted as the title. He does incredible work. He lives in California.
http://www.saacforum.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=1298

Best regards,

Richard E.
Title: Re: Desert Rental painting
Post by: GT350Lad on June 01, 2018, 07:05:56 AM
Really nicely done Richard.  :)
Title: Re: Desert Rental painting
Post by: ITHERTZ on June 01, 2018, 08:01:37 AM
Wow! - that's cool!
(http://www.saacforum.com/gallery/403-010618065217.jpeg)
Title: Re: Desert Rental painting
Post by: FL SAAC on June 01, 2018, 08:05:51 AM
truly amazing we kept looking at it and believed it was a picture. fantastic work


Quote from: deathsled on June 01, 2018, 06:55:51 AM
Here is my just completed painting I commissioned of me driving my Hertz on a California desert road. I called it "Desert Rental" which the artist graciously accepted as the title. He does incredible work. He lives in California.
http://www.saacforum.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=1298

Best regards,

Richard E.
Title: Re: Desert Rental painting
Post by: deathsled on June 01, 2018, 08:24:59 AM
I only named it and took a selfie of me in big red in a parking lot on a Sunday a couple months ago. Ruben Duran is the artist out of California. I requested he put me and the Hertz on a lonely stretch of desert highway in California. He specializes in automotive art but very talented at drawing human faces and bodies too. I don't have the painting yet because he's waiting another week for the road to dry. Lol! If you Google his name you'll find all his other work. He also sells on Fine Art America. I am extremely happy about how it turned out. He really took his time to do the work in excessively great detail. He did one of Victor Edelbrook with his salt flats roadster on a dry lake bed that he sold (presumably to the Edelbrock family). Very impressive.

Best regards,

Richard E.
Title: Re: Desert Rental painting
Post by: deathsled on June 01, 2018, 08:26:24 AM
Quote from: GT350Lad on June 01, 2018, 07:05:56 AM
Really nicely done Richard.  :)
Thanks Lad!
Title: Re: Desert Rental painting
Post by: Steve McDonald Formally known as Mcdonas on June 01, 2018, 08:28:46 AM
Looks fantastic, great picture
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Post by: chris NOS on June 01, 2018, 04:50:38 PM
nice !!
Title: Re: Desert Rental painting
Post by: terlingua11 on June 01, 2018, 04:59:29 PM
.... so is that a picture of the actual finished painting? or is that the photoshopped image he was using to paint from. I'm assuming it's oil paint? If that's the finished product that is amazing-

Jeff
Title: Re: Desert Rental painting
Post by: terlingua11 on June 01, 2018, 05:11:55 PM
Looks like you made the Facebook page-

https://www.facebook.com/rubenduranart/

A few other paintings he has done / for sale:

https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/ruben-duran.html

Nice stuff-
Title: Re: Desert Rental painting
Post by: deathsled on June 01, 2018, 06:02:42 PM
It's a picture of the actual finished painting. He paints with oil and uses canvass.  As Ruben told me they are soon getting or are getting a dry spell in San Diego which will assist in drying the thicker areas of paint before shipping. He can paint you and your car into any scene you want. It's not a digital painting either as far as I know. He draws it out and paints.  I am very shocked at how well he captured the likeness of the red one and me in it. Dead ringer. Even the stance of the wheels in the fenders is exactly how she sits on 475 pound springs with a 1 inch drop in the front and lowering blocks in back. Plus the somewhere in California backdrop. It appeals to my daydreams.
Title: Re: Desert Rental painting
Post by: deathsled on June 16, 2018, 08:40:47 AM
Finally arrived on my birthday. The painting turned out fantastic. Ruben Duran is the man!
http://www.saacforum.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=1543