Yellow Car

Yellow Car, a photo by gingerpig2000 on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
This might look like the Fiat 600 original, but this one was known as the Yugoslavian Zastawa 750. The Italian original is very rare here in Poland, and the Zastawa has almost disappeared as well, but there are now quite a few enthusiasts around.

I just love the shape, and the colour with the added racing stripes was simply a bonus. I was surprised by how much time I spent on this image - first removing the cars on either side of this one, painting in the missing parts of the car where it had been obscured by another, then deciding to crop the image, minimizing and making consistent the background, doing than then redoing the grassy bank in the foreground and then fine finishing after blowing the image to a larger size.

However, the result is that the sales version of this image, see link below, can be blown up very large, which was the point of a lot of the effort. Roughing - 2 hours, Refining - 20 hours.

by Trevor Butcher

This image is available to buy as a print: shop.photo4me.com/picture.aspx?id=247509, not just on paper - but on canvas and on phone cases!