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The picture is completely painted in Illustrator CS6 – 100% vector – in photorealistic style. It is only a small part of my painting "Piccadilly Circus 1966": www.deviantart.com/exotic-lege…In times of being confronted with fake news, it becomes increasingly difficult for individuals to distinguish truth from falsehood. Images and stories have always had the power to manipulate our view of the world. Unfortunately, they are being abused more and more shamelessly today. Very recent on this topic, I have created a painting and associated magazine in two years of work. The painting as well as all illustrations in the magazine have been painted by me completely in photorealistic style (vector). The story and all lyrics are from my pen. The lied story of my project takes place in 1966 behind the background of a real event that was going around the world. The place is the London Piccadilly Circus, at that time cultural hotspot of the Swinging Sixties. Shown in the picture are the most defining figures, events and objects of Britain in this short epoch. Their fame was phenomenal in those years and lives on even in the present.
If you want, you can buy this set (magazine and poster) from me. I offer the poster in the size 140 x 100 cm. The magazine (DIN A4) has 32 pages and is availbale in a German and an English version. Contact me via this site or look at my ebay page www.ebay.de/itm/253975805810
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I had to great good fortune to own (if only briefly) a 1966 XKE coloured (sic) British racing green (what else ??). Perhaps the best and certainly the most fun car I have every had the pleasure to drive (and I've had a few !!). NICE picture, by the way ; many pleasant memories evoked !!
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Thank you. I'm glad you like it.
Although I've seen and photographed countless E-types, I've never run in one. Here I would be particularly interested in the twelve-cylinder models. As a child I liked the coupé of the series 3 best. Today I have developed more and more sympathy for the convertible version and also like the first two series, which I had a hard time with for aesthetic reasons. They were too delicate for me. I even found the fully glazed headlights ugly. With today's eyes I see these things differently. It probably also has to do with the visual habits. As a child of the seventies I grew up with the series 3.
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I have a different story. In the mid 1960's, jaguar "E" types were available CHEAP, (they were not all that popular in California USA at the time) about 1/2 the cost of a used Chevrolet "Corvette". The Corvette, pre-911 Porshe, and various BMW machines were the usual "racing" (VERY illegal !!) opponents of mine. I beat a lot of them ; while an "E-type" jaguar could not beat a contemporary Corvette in a strait line, it could "run rings around" (completely out-maneuver) them. And it could usually "out-gun" (go faster) than the Porches then available, at least until the "turbo-boost" (supercharger) kicked in (an apt description !) who knew when ?? (the "boost" was notoriously un-predictable).This made caution when driving a Porsche vital (and "caution" doesn't win many races !!). To beat a BMW, one had to exhibit better driving skills.
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According to the ideas of Jaguar the E-Type should compete with brands such as Aston Martin, Ferrari and Maserati. And in fact, its conception and its outstanding performance made it an international dream sports car for many years. And all this for the third of the price of a Ferrari 250 GT with comparable performance data.
Its unusual design made it THE sports car icon of his time and fascinated many generations even after the end of its production. Although its aerodynamic form is based on pure functionalism and is primarily the product of numerous cw-value calculations and convenient air flow tests, its design hit the nerve of the 1960s, marked by dynamism, glamor, change, a desire for freedom and optimism. Hardly any other car is as much associated with the Swinging Sixties as the E-Type (That's why I chose this vehicle for my picture "London - Piccadilly Circus 1966"
.). For Enzo Ferrari, it was the most beautiful car ever. Not for me (child of the Seventies). I was - and still am - a big friend of Lamborghini and Ferrari in terms of sports cars. Pininfarina and Gandini were my true heroes in the Seventies. But at this time, the E-Type was already more than 10 years old. His design looked very old in comparison with types like the Miura (also a model of the sixties), Countach, 365 GT BB / 512 BB ... As for the price, for me he was one of the entry-level models in the sports car class. Although he could compete with expensive sports cars in his early years, I never accepted him as a real sports car. But that has to do with the fact that the performance of the sports cars in the Seventies have increased significantly and an E-type significantly lost ground (even with twelve-cylinder engine).
Nonetheless the demand of the XKE was enormous and so it became the export hit of the Jaguar brand. 70% of the vehicles went to the USA.
It is the only automobile exhibit today that decorates New York‘s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). This makes it the second car after Pininfarina‘s Cisitalia 202 GT to make it to these sacred halls.
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False pic or real drawing ^^ Really you impress me, looks like a render. Very Good job.
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Thank you. I'm glad you like it.
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Thank you for your compliment which I appreciate very much. I wish you all the best my friend.
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You're very Welcome my Friend!!
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The E-Type became the world‘s design and sports car icon of the Swinging Sixties and fascinated many generations even after the end of its production. Reason enough for an appreciation in my painting "London - piccadilly Circus 1966.
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Yes this car is awesome.
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k you very much. I'm glad you like it.
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Thank you very much. I'm glad you like it.
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