Chip Foose Analysis

The artwork I chose to write about is a sketch of a 1965 Volkswagen Beetle drawn by Chip Foose. Like always he draws a vehicle before he buids it to give himself an idea on which direction he is going to take. the meaning of the art work is stronger than the actual item. In this episode of Overhaulin was a first for them because for one they never customized a VW Beetle before, but mainly because of the owner of the car they built it for ''Chipfoose.com" Blake, the VW’s owner had had always dreamed of working with Chip Foose on his car so they surprised him at his home the day they picked up the VW. Blake has a debilitating lung disease, cystic fibrosis, has slowed him down at his young age of 25. Blake would work on his VW whenever he had the time but with his illness the transformation had been moving at a slower pace. With Blake’s tenacity to never give up and Chip wanted to help him speed up his build process and construct the custom street racer he had been so excited working on to complete …show more content…
It has reflections in the door almost like the cars sitting on a hillside with the sun reflecting off of it. Shades of different colors to make it light and dark to contrast. Even specific details down to the pin stripping and the use of silver and white to make a real life chrome look for the door handles and the headlight bezels and window trims. The small detail down in the windshield like a reflection of something off in front of it. it truely is a special piece of art. It seems like he used a yellow in the middle of the doors to make the orange car have a glare on it. the black and greys and whites in the windows look like if you touch the paper the window would break and fall out. You can tell its not a picture but at the same time the artwork is so fine detailed it looks real. his lines are so straight, his circles are so perfectly round, and the the realism of this art piece makes you almost smell the rubber of the