Automotive Art
More Artists See And Feel The Beauty of Chrome and Metal
Online art marketplace www.DiscoveredArtists.com reports a growing number of artists who are caught up in capturing cars on canvas. Although these artists can choose from a world of subjects ranging from naked ladies to breathtaking landscapes and crashing waves, they are fascinated by the lovely curves and flashing metal of car bodies.
Automotive art typically falls into three categories. Beauty shots that usually are very tight, detailed fine art photographs, nostalgia artworks that set a mood or capture a feeling, and realism portraits where the artist creates a photo quality image of a vehicle using brush and paint.
Automotive beauty art typically is the work of fine art photographers who can turn a tight shot of a hood ornament into a masterpiece. The fascination and the challenge for an artist is to capture the reflection of light and shadow on polished metal. The artist sees beauty in the interesting lines, curves and intricate details of grills, chrome strips and other ornamentation that distinguishes one make and model from another.
Working with different types of lenses and by using a number of lighting and digital processing techniques, a fine art photographer focuses his lens on an intricate detail of a car’s body. His challenge is to capture the reflected light and shadow created by the bends and curves of the metal, and to use his artistic eye to effectively frame the image.
The successful result produces a balanced image of vibrant color and contrast that at first glance is simply a beautiful artwork. But, what adds interest to the artwork is that the image invites the viewer to puzzle over and then decipher the make, model and featured body part. What appears to be a colorful portrait may on further study be a hood vent, the chromed curve of a fender, a door handle, or a tail light shot with a macro lens.