New Kimi Raikkonen oil painting on canvas

Hi Guys, I´m almost finishing one of my latest paintings, this is a painting for a customer in Finland!! He is a Kimi and Mika fan, this is the second painting he orders from me, the first one was a painting of Mika Hakkinen.

this is a mix of acrylic paint and oil paint over canvas, measures 120cms by 90cms, is not that big as my usual paintings, but I like painting this as much as the others.

what do you think about this painting?

there are 3 parts that I haven´t finished yet, one is above the helmet and the air intake, and one is in the back part of the car, the exhaust part, and the mirror on the left side of the painting.
Please let me know what you think,

Best regards
JELPSPEED
http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/8734/fotorealismokimi1ln1.jpg

Absolutely gorgeous!

great work.
i love the silver reflections

wow that is sooooooo wonderful I myself is a Ferrari F1 Fan

thanks for the comments to everyone!

wow that is sooooooo wonderful I myself is a Ferrari F1 Fan


I´m also a Ferrari fan, but this paintings are made for my customers, all my personal paintings are Ferraris or formula 1 themed.

Nice to hear that how much is that painting

I'm not a serious painter; I’m just painting a friend of mine who is an artist for Christmas. The picture is of various colorful and bright Christmas ornaments in a box. I painted last year in my high school Art 1 class and my teachers told everyone that first sketch the drawing on the canvas and then take a very thin brush and outline the sketch with black paint. So I was just wondering, was the outline to just further highlight the picture or is it necessary? I thought the painting looked nice with the outline, so I wouldn't mind.

That is quite a complicated jumble of indecipherable colors and shapes. Only part that I can make out is the front suspension. The form of the car is almost totally lost in the stickers and flat colors. I think the cropping of the original photo did you no favors. Modern f1 cars are insanely hard to paint with all of the sticker spam.

I like the abstract quality of the piece; it's different. It's good to see someone not painting or drawing a typical 3/4 view of the whole car and rendered like a photograph. So many people are drawing technical "still lifes" of cars that it becomes repetitive. This is a departure.

Your work has texture and color and shapes making a sort of secondary random patterning and design apart from the expected "here is an F1 car" still life type of piece.

In my opinion, you should stop at this point. It looks finished as it is. It doesn't need any more done to it.

I know the client expects more rendering and "literalism" but I say for the future, strive to create more works like this where it's not so literal and spelled out. It's far more intriguing this way, as it becomes somewhat abstract/expressionistic/conceptualist. The use of the realism on the helmet and suspension then creates a "tension" in the piece between the real and the abstract.

Look at this version and you can see the abstract shapes and colors better, and how the piece can stand on it's own just like this.

For me, this is a finished abstract-realist concept painting:

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd170/viscountaero/AbstractF1.jpg

Well, I want to make a glass painting. I have no clue about glass painting, but it's sort of like homework. When you paint something on glass, do you have to paint on the back of the glass, so that the front would be the image? That would be hard to do, because I paint using lots of layers, so if I painted like that on the back of the glass, only the first layer would appear on the front.

thats freakin awesome! Im stunned

Well, I want to make a glass painting. I have no clue about glass painting, but it's sort of like homework. When you paint something on glass, do you have to paint on the back of the glass, so that the front would be the image? That would be hard to do, because I paint using lots of layers, so if I painted like that on the back of the glass, only the first layer would appear on the front.




I believe you paint on the back, like in traditional cel animation. Get an old book on 1) glass matte painting and 2) cel animation

The customer traded it in, for a new painting, and now it´s on sale at ebay for $1.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Kimi-Raikkonen-helmet-F1-original-Artwork-Mclaren-art-1_W0QQitemZ120273447065QQihZ002QQcategoryZ20158QQs sPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I will post a picture of his new artwork, REALLY BIG!!