I sell car prints and mugs here and had a request from someone about a TVR Chimaera. I do a TVR Tuscan which caught her eye
She wanted a mug rather than a print and the mugs are made from paintings that take quite a while to do. Considering that I only make a few pounds on each mug, I told her that it woudnt be worth my while.
After thinking about it for a while I realised that it would be worth doing a painting of the chimaera for prints anyway.
After doing the lines I filled in the body colour in a middle colour, not the darkest or lightest. With watercolour you are normally meant to work from light to dark but i find that with good quality paint you can lift out colour to reveal the white or lighter paper beneath.
After that it was time for detail:
Then the final detail to finish it:
When I sent her a photo and made a listing of it she decided to buy an a4 print.
I asked her what the registration number was and put that on the car as well as the mug.
She was thrilled, it doesnt take long to put a reg number on in photoshop and make it look painted in.
This is the mug:
I havent included the number in this blog for obvious reasons.