James Dean - Immortality

For a while, I've wanted to do a piece on James Dean and his 550, so here it is.

I call it "Immortality", and it's done in mixed media.

The background is acrylic on 70 year-old unused canvas board (my dad's), Dean and his mechanic are in pen&ink and archival markers on illustration board, on which I also illustrated the wheels in Prismacolor pencils, and the Porsche 550 is on 18 gauge sheet aluminum, which I engraved, sanded, painted on with oil model paint and pen&ink, cut out, filed and sanded, and finished in gloss varnished.

The Porsche is about a 1/4" off the canvas ...

I included part of a quote of his that I found appropriate for this.

The size of the piece is 16"x 12" (40.6cm x 30.5cm).

I'll be having it framed in a black floating frame ...

© Paul Chenard 2011