#136 6/26/19 The Red IH Truck, third time around

This painting I started in the evening....and finished it late in the night.  Still on vacation...my family around, my brother Doug was looking at the almost finished painting and commented that I likely should have left off the ? (he had a name for it, but I don't recall it) on the top of the side-window, as it was an after-market option and some might think it detracts from the otherwise historic nature of the truck.  Ummmm.  He said the tires aren't original too.  Ummmm.  Now I remember.  Doug used to drive a red pickup, it was named Big Red.  I don't know what make or model it was, perhaps also an International Harvester.

I started this with an already red (acrylic painted) canvas.  It went pretty easily, but it is after all my third time painting this truck.  I took a short walk down the street that the lake cottage is on, and next to an old barn found an old turquoise car (the kind with wing tips on the back), then a little further on found an old delivery truck and a Studebaker fire truck.  I went back to the cottage to get my phone so I could photograph them.  So, some time, some where, I'll be painting these 3 new nostalgic vehicles.

As I look at the third truck painting now, there are a few things I'd like to do over: the front wheel and tire (something in the perspective is off), the rear-view mirror (the color is off) and the scenery that is perhaps too blurred out the back and driver's side window.  There may be a fourth Red IH Truck coming.