The Automotive Fine Arts Society Magazine   Home Departments Sketches Contours Detours AFAS Book Stop About AFAS Feedback Marketplace Printed Back Issues Detours Detours Page 1 Detours Page 2 25th AFAS Show New Work Whinn Profile Braun Revisit Select Issue Volume 1, Number 1 Premiere Edition, August 2010 ART FITZPATRICK AT 92     "Pedal to the metal" is the only way to describe Fitz's approach toward his upcoming 92nd birthday. Currently a custom body Packard he designed 71 years ago is winning "Best Design" and other "Best of" awards at Concours and CCCA meets around the country. The recent Gold Creativity Award for Illustration of his "Fins and Chrome" series of postage stamps demonstrates that he continues to create and produce at full throttle.     An upcoming video documentary by Gregory Berkin Productions titled The Pebble Beach Experience will feature clips from an interview in the AFAS Art Tent with Fitz and John Lasseter, of Disney-Pixar talking about Fitz's contribution in helping make the hit film CARS.     The current issue of the British motoring magazine Influx has an interview article titled "Art Fitzpatrick: Original Mad Man." It describes him as a definitive artist of the American auto industry's boom time, creating some of the key images of the chrome-clad dream of the American automobile.      "Influx caught up with an irrepressible artist who helped define the way that the post war motorcar was created and consumed – now in his tenth creative decade while the American auto industry shudders from the closure of one of the brands he helped create: Pontiac."     They do have a way with words, don't they? EBERTS PREPARES FOR 2010 AACA NATIONAL MEET     Top painting is Ken Eberts' 14th annual Poster Artwork for the AACA National Fall Meet at Hershey, Pa. The world's largest old car meet. Featured is the Cocoa Motel in Hershey. The 1956 Oldsmobile Starfire and four other cars in the painting are from the collection of Mr William Davis.The Starfire has been in the Davis family since the day it was delivered new.     The photo is of a gas pump that Eberts created for the AACA Museum also in Hershey. Fellow AFAS artist Tony Sikorski, five other artists and Eberts were supplied unfinished gas pumps by the Museum and invited to do something creative with them.The finished pumps will be auctioned off at the Night at the Museum gala & Auction presented by RM to benefit the Museum. Eberts' pump is titled "You can Trust your Car to the Man who wears the Star" FRITZ AND "DEUCE OF SPADES"     Not only is she featuring a selection of his paintings in her film, but Producer/Director Faith Granger enlisted AFAS member Tom Fritz to create two powerful pre-release posters evoking the gritty passion in her soon-to-be-released movie, "Deuce of Spades".     The posters, entitled "Johnny Callaway" and "Last Race" are the first in a much-anticipated series of poster images developed by Fritz. For fans who truly appreciate what poster art means, these works are now part of the film's iconography and history, making them as important as the film itself in some respects. For more information, see the "Posters" section on the artist's website. WOOD LATEST ACTIVITIES     AFAS member Nicola Wood showed 2 of last years major Pebble Beach paintings in a group show at the Artworks Downtown Gallery in San Raphael, CA, USA. which coincided with the 2nd Marin County Concours d'Elegance. Wood also showed at the Dana Point St Regis Hotel, Newport Beach Concours d' Elegance     Also... Wood has been Included in Marquis "Who's Who of American Women" !        25TH AFAS EXHIBITION Visit with AFAS artists that premiered their new work at the 25th Annual AFAS Premiere Art Show. NON-EXHIBITING MEMBERS Not all members could make the 25th anniversary exhibition at Pebble Beach. We look at their latest. GARY WHINN PROFILE Elected to membership in 2009, we feature the work of the Society's newest member Britain's Gary Whinn. LARRY BRAUN REVISIT It has been twenty years since our last feature of Colorado sculptor Larry Braun's work... here's a fresh look. 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