Paint Your Wagon: Art Car Workshop at artsEdge

One of the events in which Art Cartists took the forefront at the '99 artsEdge Festival and Art Car Blow-Out was a workshop to make a new art car.

Jeb Lewis--one of the friendly volunteers who was so helpful to the Art Car group at artsEdge--donated his old Toyota fastback, "The King," to be transformed into Seattle's newest Art Car. Leopard Lady Kelly Lyles and Michael "Toast" O'Driscoll came up with the theme of an art car spoofing great works of art. Accordingly, the car was primed with white paint and then covered with parodies of classic art works were sketched onto it. Below is a representation of Dr. Schlock's favorite, a take-off on Rodin's Le Penseur, pondering one of the weightiest moral issues of our time. Other works chosen included Van Gogh's Starry Night, Dali's melting clocks, Picasso's Guernica, Botticelli's Birth of Venus, Egyptian art, cave paintings, tiki art, Edweard Munch's The Scream, and the portraits of Washington and Lincoln on U.S. paper currency (to name but a few).

To finish it all off, a pallette of colors with crossed brushes rampant was painted on the hood like a coat of arms, and brushes, pallettes, old tubes of oil paint, pencils and Rapidographs were glued all over the car's roof and trim.  Click here to see the finished product. This is an Art King indeed!

Here the remaining crew poses after cutting off the masking and just before cleaning their brushes and departing. Front row, L-R: Don Ehlen, Ken Gerberick. Back row, L-R: Unknown, unknown, Dr. Schlock, Kelly Lyles.

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