Adirondack Snowcat and Vintage Tractors - Paintings and Artwork for Sale.

If you're here it's for a dose of older machinery and art. I hope the site makes you happy. My vintage machines are here--and a number of paintings and studies I have done of them. Some rough drawings are paintings in the works. (The drawings are on the canvas soon to be under paint. Although I am starting to think that tractor drawings are as much fun as paintings.)

I am always looking for commission work if you want an oil painting of your snowcat or tractor!

Or if you'd like a copy of any (or all) of these paintings--I'll always give you a great deal!

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(This slideshow may be my best artistic display ever!)

Snowcat Painting Philosophy

Painting these fantasy snowcats is sort of a playful, fun, addiction kind of thing. They paintings speak for themselves. Maybe I paint the snowcats because I can never seem to get to mine when it is snowy--and the machine actually runs! The same is true for my vintage farm tractor paintings. They don't have to be running to enjoy and paint them!

I think of these machines like the Tucker Sno-Cat as engineering art. I picked up my appreciation of engineering art after working on and around a Westinghouse pressurized-water nuclear reactor.

For the paintings I try to create a detailed snowcat image in a fantasy environment. I think of the paintings almost like a museum diorama. The painting shows the snowcat in a likely usage scenario. The subject snowcat's fabricated and stylized (elements of American primitivism) (maybe?) natural surrounding areas support the detailed snowcat by not competing strongly but giving creative contrasting support to the main focus point (the detailed vintage 'high technology' snowcat).

Sometimes I think of the paintings as potential postage stamps too.

Attention to color balance, color temperature, tonal value harmony, composition and pleasing color choices go into creating the supporting painting areas. Now I also expand these thoughts from just one painting to my collection of snowcat paintings. I want the entire collection to be in harmony. I think of the collection as one artistic show piece.

I judge the quality of a painting by how long it holds your attention. Also, after that, by how much you would like it hanging on your wall. Do you still like to study it during the second and third viewing? I think it is best to also hold the painting in your hands and really look at it. A painting has to have a variety of interesting features.

And I think more people should hang art on their garage and barn walls!

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If you have an interesting snowcat or tractor for sale (that a starving artist could afford) please let me know! I may barter art or excavation for tractor mechanicing if you are local. Please ask! My tractors can always use some knowledgeable TLC.

Warren wbz111@gmail.com (540) 297-9512 Thanks for the visit!

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