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June 30th is a memorable day for many Corvette enthusiasts and car lovers. Known as “National Corvette Day,” this date marks the celebration of one of America’s most iconic sports cars, the Corvette, celebrating 70 years!
I could hardly imagine a better way to start the day. Today my fabulous Corvette owners and I created an epic morning by uniting one of America’s first Corvettes with its most Current C8 Z06 for a photo shoot in Las Vegas.
I’m excited to get started on my Corvette paintings for inclusion in the LUSTER Exhibition at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky, next year. But before I can start painting, I treat my canvasses to a multi-step process to create the perfect canvas for my realism art.
This is where I go when I want to get inspired and connect with the local car community. The Las Vegas Cars & Coffee is a booming gathering of enthusiastic car folks, easy to get to, and boasts hundreds of stunning cars weekly, including some amazing Corvettes.
LUSTER: Realism and Hyperrealism in Contemporary Automobile and Motorcycle Paintings is a traveling exhibition comprising over 55 paintings by nearly 15 leading photorealists and hyperrealists specializing in automobiles and motorcycles as their primary subject of choice.
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It has become clear that many people are curious about Artificial Intelligence and its potential implications on our lives, and understandably so. Watch this video with Mo Gawdat, a former chief business officer of Google X, AI expert, and best-selling author.
Sharing in Corvette’s 70th Anniversary through two dynamic hyperrealistic original paintings by Las Vegas artist A.D. Cook.
What does Artificial Intelligence think about art? Does AI even think about art? If so, what does AI think art is?
The experts and teachers aren’t always right. My high school art teacher wasn’t right about my future. And my broken thumb convinced my doctor that my right hand would impede my art career. Yet, today, I create art that I am proud of, despite my high school art teacher’s harsh prediction that I would never succeed. And my right hand healed fine, thank you.
Few people know that my INDIAN SUMMER motorcycle painting experienced a colossal disaster halfway through creating it. So did BACKDRAFT, one of my better-known life-size fine art nudes.
June 2, 2023 — The LUSTER collection has arrived at The Dennos Museum Center in spectacularly beautiful Traverse Bay, Michigan, made famous by Ernest Hemmingway in the Nick Adams Stories, in which he chronicled the early years he spent in the area.
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