{"id":16241,"date":"2011-10-05T02:58:02","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T09:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/?p=16241"},"modified":"2013-02-17T18:04:14","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T01:04:14","slug":"hot-rod-art-by-james-owens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/hot-rod-art-by-james-owens\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dame Wore Red &#8211; 1933 Ford Painted by James Owens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mr_social_sharing_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Social Sharing Toolkit v2.2 --><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.myrideisme.com%2FBlog%2Fhot-rod-art-by-james-owens%2F&amp;media=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jamesowensstudio.com%2Fart%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fhansum%2Ftimthumb.php%3Fsrc%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.jamesowensstudio.com%2Fart%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F04%2Ffurious.jpg%26amp%3Bw%3D670&amp;description=The+Dame+Wore+Red+%E2%80%93+1933+Ford+Painted+by+James+Owens\" class=\"pin-it-button\" count-layout=\"none\" rel=\"lightbox[16241]\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/images\/PinExt.png\" title=\"Pin It\" \/><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><fb:share-button type=\"button_count\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/hot-rod-art-by-james-owens\/\"><\/fb:share-button><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/hot-rod-art-by-james-owens\/\" data-via=\"myrideisme\" data-text=\"The Dame Wore Red \u2013 1933 Ford Painted by James Owens\"><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-annotation=\"none\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/hot-rod-art-by-james-owens\/\"><\/div><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a class=\"mr_social_share_email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=The Dame Wore Red \u2013 1933 Ford Painted by James Owens&amp;body=https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/hot-rod-art-by-james-owens\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-sharing-toolkit\/images\/icons_small\/email.png\" class=\"nopin\" alt=\"Email\" title=\"Email\"\/><span class=\"mr_small_icon\">Email<\/span><\/a><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"linksalpha_button linksalpha_link\" href=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/social\/mobile\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/hot-rod-art-by-james-owens\/\" data-text=\"The Dame Wore Red \u2013 1933 Ford Painted by James Owens\" data-desc=\"Learn How To Paint Like Hot Rod Artist James Owens The Dame Wore Red is the first in MyRideisMe's new feature, Artist Toolbox. Read on for tips and secrets how James Owens makes his car noir art. _______________________________________________________________ The Dame Wore Red By James OwensShe sat\" data-image=\"http:\/\/www.jamesowensstudio.com\/art\/wp-content\/themes\/hansum\/timthumb.php?src=http:\/\/www.jamesowensstudio.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/furious.jpg&amp;w=670\" data-button=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img src=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/images\/social_share_button.png\" alt=\"Share\" class=\"linksalpha_image\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/scripts\/loader_iconbox.js?v=2.4\"><\/script><\/span><\/div><h3>Learn How To Paint Like Hot Rod Artist James Owens<\/h3>\n<p><em>The Dame Wore Red<\/em> is the first in MyRideisMe&#8217;s new feature, <a title=\"Artist Toolbox \u2013 Art from James Owens\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/artist-toolbox-james-owens\/\" target=\"_blank\">Artist Toolbox<\/a>. Read on for tips and secrets how James Owens makes his car noir art.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">_______________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" title=\"James Owens Furious\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jamesowensstudio.com\/art\/wp-content\/themes\/hansum\/timthumb.php?src=http:\/\/www.jamesowensstudio.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/furious.jpg&amp;w=670\" alt=\"how to draw cars,hot rod art, lowbrow art\" width=\"311\" height=\"418\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>The Dame Wore Red<\/strong><\/h3>\n<address><strong>By James Owens<\/strong><\/address>\n<p>She sat there mocking me. Her blank stare made me feel like it was my first time. But I\u2019ve been down this alley before and I learned something every time, usually the hard way. Her kind can strike terror into the hearts of grown men. Her milk-white skin was almost blinding, taunting, teasing me till I couldn\u2019t think straight. She sat there on my easel thinking she had me right where she wanted me. A canvas is like a dame, you treat \u2018em right and they\u2019re a little bit of heaven right here on Earth. You treat \u2018em wrong and brother you find yourself in a mess. I guess the big difference is, I\u2019m usually trying to put something ON a canvas.<\/p>\n<p>My name is Owens, I paint pictures.<\/p>\n<p>It ain&#8217;t rocket science. Any yegg can learn it. But not everyone is nutty enough to put in the time.<\/p>\n<p>This ain&#8217;t the right way or the wrong way but it\u2019s my way. I took a lot of wrong turns before I found how to mix this drink. You\u2019re gonna have to do the same. But maybe I can head you in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>First ya have to pick a \u201cmedium\u201d. Which is a high-hat way of categorizing the type of materials you want to work with; water color, charcoal, etc. Like a woman, you have to spend time getting to know their characteristics. You need to know the way these materials act in order to use their strengths and avoid their weaknesses. You only learn this by getting in close and taking your lumps over and over again until you know how and when to bob and weave your way out of trouble.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve chosen to push pigment mixed in a glob of oil around with a stick that has animal hair glued to the end. I trained in commercial art, a racket where speed is of the essence so oil paint is about as useful as tits on a bull. But hey if it was good enough for, Lyendecker, Rockwell, Saunders and my all time favorite Haddon Sundblom it\u2019s good enough for this mook from Detroit. In my opinion the best work of these masters were done in oil. I wanted to work like these guys.<\/p>\n<p>I tried acrylics for the ease of clean up and quick drying time but as much as I sweet talked \u2018em I still couldn\u2019t get the paint to do what I wanted, I couldn\u2019t get the same feel as these \u201cOil Barons\u201d. That\u2019s the long way of saying I had to teach myself to paint with oils. Nothin\u2019 good ever comes easy!<\/p>\n<p>In between episodes of \u201cPeter Gunn\u201d I\u2019ve been thinking a lot lately about the automobile as graphic design. Not in execution of paint but in layout and design. The lines on some of my favorite cars are so incredible I want to find a way to accentuate these shapes while creating a painting. After all, what\u2019s the use of just copying what a camera does? The 33 Ford has arguably some of the most beautiful lines ever built into an automobile. The problem is how to show off those lines in the most advantageous way. Like that \u201clittle black dress\u201d designed to accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s all really an editing process, what to leave in, what to leave out, like a hot rod where if it don\u2019t make it go faster it ain&#8217;t needed. It\u2019s the same for painting. If it don\u2019t tell the story you&#8217;re trying to tell then it\u2019s got to go.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a little inside-baseball tip, if an automotive artist ever tells you he or she doesn\u2019t use reference photos\u2026 well, just don\u2019t buy any land from that guy. We all use it at some point in our process. I encourage you to take your own photos. After all it\u2019s your vision and your eye people want to see. I even find reference on lighting and atmosphere to keep by my easel if the job calls for it. Don\u2019t be afraid to use reference but don\u2019t be a slave to it either. (Side rant: Hey all you pin up artists\u2026 Quit repainting Vargas, Elvgren and Petty girls. Get a girl to pose for you and do the heavy lifting yourself!)<\/p>\n<p>Now where was I? Oh yeah. You can see in the reference photo that this piece started as a simple snapshot from a car show. I shot many angles of this car but obviously chose reference that would help me solve the problem I put before myself.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/1-Reference.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[16241]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17305\" style=\"margin: 4px; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"How To Draw Cars - #1 Reference\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/1-Reference.jpg\" border=\"2\" alt=\"hot rod art, james owens, car drawing\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" width=\"575\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/1-Reference.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/1-Reference-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/1-Reference-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/1-Reference-575x431.jpg 575w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the artist, a painting should always be about something other that just making a picture. Is it a color or lighting challenge, or a drawing challenge, or as in this case a design challenge?<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to really emphasize the design of the front fenders. I wanted it to be completely symmetrical. (Hundred dollar word means the same on both sides. I know \u2018cause I looked it up.) The problem is that most cars are not perfectly symmetrical including this one. If you plotted from the center of the grill, one side was wider and the horns and lights fell at different places on the fender. This ain&#8217;t cutting it for my masterpiece! So the layout of the vehicle needed to be corrected in the drawing.  I don\u2019t care if it\u2019s \u201cReal\u201d or not, I\u2019m trying to solve a graphic design problem here.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/2-Pencil.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[16241]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17304\" style=\"margin: 4px; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"How To Draw Cars - #2 Pencil\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/2-Pencil.jpg\" border=\"2\" alt=\"hot rod art, car drawing, lowbrow art\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" width=\"575\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/2-Pencil.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/2-Pencil-150x81.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/2-Pencil-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/2-Pencil-575x312.jpg 575w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once I had the drawing corrected and transferred to the canvas I sealed the drawing and primed the canvas with a Burnt Umber acrylic wash.  Anything to kill that blinding white of the blank canvas. This immediately gives you a nice warm medium ground to work out of. Always remember, you can paint over acrylics with oil but not the other way around.<\/p>\n<p>Although I like to keep my final paintings \u201cPainterly\u201d there are parts of the process that need to be kept pretty tight. Details like the grill of a car are important not to loose the drawing. Trying to correct all those upright bars once the drawing is lost is like calling your woman by the wrong name while making love. You may get out of it, but it will take a lot of work!<\/p>\n<p>To paint something like the bars of the grill I use a technique called brush ruling. I have a wood ruler about 20 inches long that I have taped 1-inch risers to each end. I can then rest this on the canvas and put the brush\u2019s metal feral against the metal strip embedded in the ruler and stroke as long and straight a line as I want. Like anything else, practice makes perfect. Practice on scrap until it becomes comfortable. In this case since the bars of the grill are upright I turned the canvas sideways on the easel. I\u2019m always turning the canvas this way and that to find the best angle of attack. (I\u2019m purposely leaving out any feminine reference here.)<\/p>\n<p>While I\u2019m at it, as far as brushes go, I use hog bristle flats and I use as large a brush as I can for as long as I can. For detail I like cheap liner brushes.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/3-Blacks.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[16241]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17303\" style=\"margin: 4px; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"How To Draw Cars - #3 Blacks\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/3-Blacks.jpg\" border=\"2\" alt=\"drawing cars, painting cars, hot rod art\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" width=\"576\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/3-Blacks.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/3-Blacks-150x90.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/3-Blacks-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/3-Blacks-575x345.jpg 575w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At this stage I\u2019ve laid in the blacks. This will immediately give you your darkest dark. It is important to get canvas covered quickly unless you are retired and don\u2019t care how long it takes to do a painting. Hell, most of us ain&#8217;t independently wealthy and a guy\u2019s gotta eat so lets get this thing finished.<\/p>\n<p>After the black dried I used washes of Burnt Umber to work up my tonal values. This I kept pretty loose. It\u2019s important to get your mid tones right. This also gave me a warm unifying color for my painting. I cannot emphasize too much the importance of getting your tonal values right. DO NOT MOVE ON TO COLOR WITHOUT WORKING THIS OUT. Most of the time when a painting fails it is due to bad tonal values. Color doesn\u2019t make the painting; it\u2019s the tonal values. Get this part down and the rest should go pretty smooth. This is the dinner and dancing before inviting her up to your place if you know what I mean, and I think that you do&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/4-Burnt-Umber-Wash.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[16241]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17302\" style=\"margin: 4px; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"How To Draw Cars - #4 Burnt Umber Wash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/4-Burnt-Umber-Wash.jpg\" border=\"2\" alt=\"how to draw cars, james owens, car noir\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" width=\"576\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/4-Burnt-Umber-Wash.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/4-Burnt-Umber-Wash-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/4-Burnt-Umber-Wash-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/4-Burnt-Umber-Wash-575x323.jpg 575w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I guess I\u2019ll side\u2013track a moment here to talk about an amazing product I discovered called Galkyd. This is an amber liquid that acts as a drying agent. When mixed with paint it makes most oils dry to the touch overnight. This is the greatest stuff since sliced bread. If it were a broad I\u2019d marry it. Do yourself a favor and pick up a bottle and give it a try.<\/p>\n<p>Okay now the doll is freshly scrubbed for a night on the town, lets get her dressed up. With oil you want to work your paint \u201cThick over thin\u201d or \u201cLean under fat\u201d, also, \u201cLight over dark\u201d. This helps with paint application and also can keep the paint from cracking due to different drying times of different thicknesses of paint. In other words use your darks in washes and build up the thickness of the paint as the colors get lighter.<\/p>\n<p>I chose to wash in my darkest red using a thinned out Alizarin Crimson. I thinned the paint with the Galkyd and a little odorless turp. Since it\u2019s a wash the Burnt Umber of the under painting still shows through. I like Alizarin Crimson for shadow areas on red cars because it is a cool-ish red, very deep and works well with the Burnt Umber under painting. When I use it in connection with warm reds and oranges it really feels natural and makes the red look juicy.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s interesting that on most any car you paint, regardless of color, you will only find the pure color at the crest of a curve. All other surfaces seem to be affected by reflected light and colors or shadows.<\/p>\n<p>So the next color I laid in was pure Cadmium Red, followed by oranges and yellows to build up the curved forms.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/5-Reds.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[16241]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17301\" style=\"margin: 4px; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"How To Draw Cars - #5 Reds\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/5-Reds.jpg\" border=\"2\" alt=\"how to draw cars, low brow art, lowbrow art, james owens, hot rod art\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" width=\"576\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/5-Reds.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/5-Reds-150x78.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/5-Reds-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/5-Reds-575x301.jpg 575w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The red is looking pretty tasty at this point but I haven\u2019t put in my brightest highlights yet because I still have to paint the highlights on my chrome. So she\u2019s in her dress but let\u2019s not zip her up until we put her jewelry on. The chrome will obviously have the brightest highlights of the entire piece so once I\u2019ve done those I will be able to better gauge what is needed on the fenders.<\/p>\n<p>I like to work wet into wet (No wise cracks.) and let the colors blend on the canvas, but it is important to not just mush color around. Study your reference and make a decision before you touch brush to canvas. Then lay that stroke in and leave it alone. Especially when putting in your highlights.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how I like to attack chrome. I like to start with what I might refer to as a mid tone highlight. Depending on the lighting this is usually made up of a lot of Naples Yellow Light. I\u2019ve had a torrid affair with this blonde. I\u2019ve left her a million times but keep coming back to her. Be sure to leave a lot of Burnt Umber showing through and lay in this highlight like you\u2019re carving out a shape from the darkness. Once this is done I come back with pure Titanium White for my brightest highlights.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/6-Finished.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[16241]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17300\" style=\"margin: 4px; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"How To Draw Cars - #6 Finished\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/6-Finished.jpg\" border=\"2\" alt=\"hot rod art, james owens, car noir\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" width=\"576\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/6-Finished.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/6-Finished-150x76.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/6-Finished-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/6-Finished-575x292.jpg 575w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was now able to get just the right balance on the highlights of the fenders.<\/p>\n<p>Hint \u2013 if you want something to look very shiny put your lightest light next to your darkest dark.<\/p>\n<p>Now I don\u2019t always work this way but it seemed the right approach for what I wanted to do with this one. Sometimes I\u2019ll work \u201cala prima\u201d with no under painting. (Fancy foreign word means painted all at once.)<\/p>\n<p>Basically it\u2019s done. But they all need a touch up here or there, but I can\u2019t see it right away. So now I need to live with it a while. Like a dame, wait long enough and she\u2019ll tell you what she needs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">_________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<address>James Owens works out of his studio in the foothills of the Great Smokey Mountains with his little K-9 pal \u201cIndy\u201d sleeping under his easel and his beautiful blonde wife \u201cKathleen\u201d peeling grapes by his side. He spends his free time reading too many Mickey Spillane novels and finding ways to compare things to women.<\/address>\n<address> <\/address>\n<address>Web site: <a title=\"Car Noir - James Owens\" href=\"http:\/\/www.car-noir.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.car-noir.com<\/a><br \/>\nEmail: <span class=\"oe_textdirection\">&#x6d;&#x6f;&#x63;&#x2e;&#x72;&#x69;&#x6f;&#x6e;&#x2d;&#x72;&#x61;&#x63;<span class=\"oe_displaynone\">null<\/span>&#x40;&#x6d;&#x69;&#x6a;<\/span><br \/>\nComplaint Department: Circular file!<\/address>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">___________________________________________________________<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"mr_social_sharing_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Social Sharing Toolkit v2.2 --><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.myrideisme.com%2FBlog%2Fhot-rod-art-by-james-owens%2F&amp;media=&amp;description=The+Dame+Wore+Red+%E2%80%93+1933+Ford+Painted+by+James+Owens\" class=\"pin-it-button\" count-layout=\"none\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/images\/PinExt.png\" title=\"Pin It\" \/><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><fb:share-button type=\"button_count\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/hot-rod-art-by-james-owens\/\"><\/fb:share-button><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/hot-rod-art-by-james-owens\/\" data-via=\"myrideisme\" data-text=\"The Dame Wore Red \u2013 1933 Ford Painted by James Owens\"><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-annotation=\"none\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/hot-rod-art-by-james-owens\/\"><\/div><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a class=\"mr_social_share_email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=The Dame Wore Red \u2013 1933 Ford Painted by James Owens&amp;body=https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/hot-rod-art-by-james-owens\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-sharing-toolkit\/images\/icons_small\/email.png\" class=\"nopin\" alt=\"Email\" title=\"Email\"\/><span class=\"mr_small_icon\">Email<\/span><\/a><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"linksalpha_button linksalpha_link\" href=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/social\/mobile\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/hot-rod-art-by-james-owens\/\" data-text=\"The Dame Wore Red \u2013 1933 Ford Painted by James Owens\" data-desc=\"Learn How To Paint Like Hot Rod Artist James Owens The Dame Wore Red is the first in MyRideisMe's new feature, Artist Toolbox. 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