Recently a collector contacted me to do a portrait of herself and her father. She sent me a really nice selfie of her adult self and her Dad. I sketched the preliminary drawing. Then she contacted me and said her father had a favorite picture of the two of them washing his old El Camino when she was a young child, and they’d rather I painted that. I was surprised she didn’t want a picture with faces! If you look at this image, the whole story is there. This was the first time I ever painted a car. The original photo was blurry, so I googled El Camino, and found some good photos of this old vehicle to use as reference.
