I'm starting to compile graphics for an eventual Lackadaisy web site and I had a grand old time painting this one. The cats and car were drawn in pencil first and scanned, the rest painted directly in Photoshop. I've never actually painted a car before, so I feel I'm expanding my boundaries some. I lack experience at anything mechanical having stuck so strictly to painting organic subject matter for so long, but 's vehicular concept artwork definitely served as an inspiration (he's a very talented coworker of mine) and motivation to give it a try. The car is based on the 1929 Ford Model A "Fordor."

I picked St. Louis as a setting because, though it was no Chicago, it has a pretty interesting history through the first few decades of the 20th century...and, well, it's where I live. Photos of the St. Louis skyline prior to the construction of the Arch have been very difficult to come by, unfortunately. If anyone knows of any resources, it'd be very much appreciated. The building on the far right is a silhouette of the old Lemp Brewery. The brewery did not survive the Prohibition era and the Lemp family has a rather dramatic and tragic history as a result, but the building is still standing today.

Okay...enough prattling...