{"id":16851,"date":"2011-08-17T12:41:42","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T19:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/pebble-beach-hot-rod-art\/"},"modified":"2013-02-17T18:04:43","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T01:04:43","slug":"pebble-beach-hot-rod-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/pebble-beach-hot-rod-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Waves at Pebble Beach Concours &#8211; Hot Rod Art"},"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%2Fpebble-beach-hot-rod-art%2F&amp;media=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.myrideisme.com%2FBlog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F08%2FHot-Rod-Art-Car-art-1.jpg&amp;description=Waves+at+Pebble+Beach+Concours+%E2%80%93+Hot+Rod+Art\" class=\"pin-it-button\" count-layout=\"none\" rel=\"lightbox[16851]\"><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\/pebble-beach-hot-rod-art\/\"><\/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\/pebble-beach-hot-rod-art\/\" data-via=\"myrideisme\" data-text=\"Waves at Pebble Beach Concours \u2013 Hot Rod Art\"><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-annotation=\"none\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/pebble-beach-hot-rod-art\/\"><\/div><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a class=\"mr_social_share_email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=Waves at Pebble Beach Concours \u2013 Hot Rod Art&amp;body=https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/pebble-beach-hot-rod-art\/\" 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\/pebble-beach-hot-rod-art\/\" data-text=\"Waves at Pebble Beach Concours \u2013 Hot Rod Art\" data-desc=\"Hot Rod Art by Tom Fritz at Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance (Click picture for full size) \"What D'Ya Reckon She'll Do?\" - Oil on canvas, 41\" x 27\" Catch Hot Rod Artist and overall cool-guy at the upcoming Pebble Beach car show. Tom Fritz art has been featured several times here at MyRideisMe.com\" data-image=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Hot-Rod-Art-Car-art-1.jpg\" 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>Hot Rod Art by Tom Fritz at Pebble Beach Concours d&#8217;Elegance<\/h3>\n<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Hot-Rod-Art-Car-art-1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[16851]\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16860\" style=\"margin: 4px; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"Hot Rod Art - Oil Painting by Tom Fritz - What D'ya Reckon She'll Do?\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Hot-Rod-Art-Car-art-1.jpg\" border=\"2\" alt=\"hot rod art, vintage hot rod art, hot rod paintings\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" width=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Hot-Rod-Art-Car-art-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Hot-Rod-Art-Car-art-1-150x98.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Hot-Rod-Art-Car-art-1-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Hot-Rod-Art-Car-art-1-575x379.jpg 575w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n(Click picture for full size) &#8220;What D&#8217;Ya Reckon She&#8217;ll Do?&#8221; &#8211; Oil on canvas, 41&#8243; x 27&#8243;<\/p>\n<p>Catch Hot Rod Artist and overall cool-guy at the upcoming Pebble Beach car show. Tom Fritz art has been featured several times here at MyRideisMe.com for a simple reason: Tom&#8217;s paintings inspire! Tom captures the coolest hot rods and vintage motorcycles in vivid colors, but what you&#8217;ll remember is the emotion seen in every painting. You&#8217;ll wonder, what&#8217;s that guy thinking?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s my pleasure to see Tom all over SoCal and at Barrett Jackson in Arizona, and it will be yours too at Pebble Beach Concours d&#8217;Elegance. The show runs from August 17-21 with the Automotive Fine Arts Society (AFAS) Exhibition on Sunday, August 21.<\/p>\n<h3>Here&#8217;s Tom prepping you for the show and his new paintings:<\/h3>\n<p>Two globs of oil are scooped up and shmushed onto the sheet of glass I use as a palette. A couple quick swirls and the color is pretty close to what I&#8217;m looking for. A little modification with a previously mixed color satisfies my eyeball, so I scoop it up with the brush, turn back to the canvas, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I look at the painting. Nothing. I look again, expanding the cone of my vision. Still nothing. I hold up my hand-mirror and look at the image in the mirror. The loaded brush is still sitting in my grip, locked, loaded, but just idling&#8230;<br \/>\n<a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Hot-Rod-Art-Car-art-lady.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[16851]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16865 alignright\" style=\"margin: 4px; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"Hot Rod Surfer Girl from Tom Fritz\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Hot-Rod-Art-Car-art-lady.jpg\" border=\"2\" alt=\"Hot Rod art, surfer girl\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" width=\"135\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Hot-Rod-Art-Car-art-lady.jpg 135w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Hot-Rod-Art-Car-art-lady-56x150.jpg 56w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 135px) 100vw, 135px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAnother look.<\/p>\n<p>That moment is here. The moment when another stroke is unnecessary; anything else I do to the painting won&#8217;t add a thing. It&#8217;s finished. The painting is finished. It&#8217;s not done&#8230; cakes are &#8216;done&#8217; &#8212; paintings are finished, and that moment has arrived. Sign it, varnish it, frame it, throw it in the truck and get it up to Pebble Beach for the annual show.<\/p>\n<p>What no-one ever sees is the jig I do when I discover I&#8217;ve just completed the last of the three &#8220;never-before-displayed&#8221; paintings required for the Automotive Fine Arts Society (AFAS) show at the Pebble Beach Concours d&#8217;Elegance. I call it a jig, because that&#8217;s what it is. It&#8217;s not really a cavort. A cavort is that dance we artists do after making a sale, or after the judge considers your paintings aren&#8217;t good enough to be considered community property.<\/p>\n<p>I counted them. I lined up the canvases and counted&#8230; one, two, three&#8230; four.<br \/>\nHuh?<br \/>\nFour? I counted them again. Shit. Four. I created FOUR NEW paintings.<\/p>\n<p>Good thing no one was in the studio shooting video because I started busting moves like M.C. Hammer. Can you imagine if this video showed up at my sanity hearings?<\/p>\n<p>Well, so there I was, all worn out, out of breath, wondering how I&#8217;d explain my footprints in the &#8220;cottage cheese&#8221; on the studio ceiling to Molly, when the thought occurred&#8230; &#8220;I gotta show these to people&#8221;. And then I thought of all my friends who wouldn&#8217;t be able to be at the show.<\/p>\n<p>So here y&#8217;all go. Here are the four paintings. One of them will be reserved as my choice for the judging for the Peter Helck Award (Best of Show as determined by the artists themselves).<\/p>\n<p>The paintings are reserved for sale at the Pebble Beach Exhibition, but prints are available of all four. Hollar at me if you just gotta have one.<br \/>\n-Tom Fritz<br \/>\n<a title=\"Hot Rod Art and Paintings\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fritzart.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.fritzart.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Contact Tom\" href=\"mailto: &#x74;&#x6f;&#x6d;&#x40;&#x66;&#x72;&#x69;&#x74;&#x7a;&#x61;&#x72;&#x74;&#x2e;&#x63;&#x6f;&#x6d;\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"oe_textdirection\">&#x6d;&#x6f;&#x63;&#x2e;&#x74;&#x72;&#x61;&#x7a;&#x74;&#x69;&#x72;&#x66;<span class=\"oe_displaynone\">null<\/span>&#x40;&#x6d;&#x6f;&#x74;<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n__________________<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Hot-Rod-Art-Car-art-4.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[16851]\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16857\" style=\"margin: 4px; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"Tom Fritz fine art - But it's a Hot Rod!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Hot-Rod-Art-Car-art-4.jpg\" border=\"2\" alt=\"hot rod art, hot rod paintings\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" width=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Hot-Rod-Art-Car-art-4.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Hot-Rod-Art-Car-art-4-150x75.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Hot-Rod-Art-Car-art-4-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Hot-Rod-Art-Car-art-4-575x287.jpg 575w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;Incident At Twenty Mile&#8221; &#8211; Oil on canvas, 36&#8243; x 18&#8243;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Hot-Rod-Art-Car-art-3.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[16851]\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16858\" style=\"margin: 4px; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"Hot Rod Art By Tom Fritz - &quot;Locals&quot;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Hot-Rod-Art-Car-art-3.jpg\" border=\"2\" alt=\"hot rod art, hot rod paintings, tom fritz\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" width=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Hot-Rod-Art-Car-art-3.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Hot-Rod-Art-Car-art-3-150x124.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Hot-Rod-Art-Car-art-3-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Hot-Rod-Art-Car-art-3-575x476.jpg 575w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;Locals&#8221; &#8211; Oil on canvas, 36&#8243; x 30&#8243;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Hot-Rod-Art-Car-art-2.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[16851]\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16859\" style=\"margin: 4px; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"Hot Rod Art by Tom Fritz\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Hot-Rod-Art-Car-art-2.jpg\" border=\"2\" alt=\"Hot rod art, hot rod paintings, tom fritz art\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" width=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Hot-Rod-Art-Car-art-2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Hot-Rod-Art-Car-art-2-150x75.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Hot-Rod-Art-Car-art-2-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Hot-Rod-Art-Car-art-2-575x287.jpg 575w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;Out Quicker Than A Hiccup&#8221; &#8211; Oil on canvas, 48&#8243; x 24&#8243;<\/p>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t get enough of Tom&#8217;s art, check out how he creates it in this story. It&#8217;s one of the best at MyRideisMe.com. I just wish I wrote it!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"FED Painting creation by Tom Fritz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/over-my-shoulder-making-hot-rod-art\/\" target=\"_blank\">The making of &#8220;Quick Sombish<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Tom Fritz Hot Rod Art\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/over-my-shoulder-making-hot-rod-art\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" title=\"Quick Sombish front engine nostalgia digger\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/0131.jpg\" alt=\"Hot Rod nostalgia drag racing artist painter paintings\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><a title=\"FED Painting creation by Tom Fritz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/over-my-shoulder-making-hot-rod-art\/\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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%2Fpebble-beach-hot-rod-art%2F&amp;media=&amp;description=Waves+at+Pebble+Beach+Concours+%E2%80%93+Hot+Rod+Art\" 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\/pebble-beach-hot-rod-art\/\"><\/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\/pebble-beach-hot-rod-art\/\" data-via=\"myrideisme\" data-text=\"Waves at Pebble Beach Concours \u2013 Hot Rod Art\"><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-annotation=\"none\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/pebble-beach-hot-rod-art\/\"><\/div><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a class=\"mr_social_share_email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=Waves at Pebble Beach Concours \u2013 Hot Rod Art&amp;body=https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/pebble-beach-hot-rod-art\/\" 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\/pebble-beach-hot-rod-art\/\" data-text=\"Waves at Pebble Beach Concours \u2013 Hot Rod Art\" data-desc=\"Hot Rod Art by Tom Fritz at Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance (Click picture for full size) \"What D'Ya Reckon She'll Do?\" - Oil on canvas, 41\" x 27\" Catch Hot Rod Artist and overall cool-guy at the upcoming Pebble Beach car show. 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