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This is a photo I shot one winter. It's now appearing in a Rhode Island news website.

Yesterday morning I woke up and checked my email, as I always do. I had a nice note from a writer in Rhode Island asking permission to use one of my photos in a news story. She writes for the GoLocal Providence website and was working on a story about winterizing historic homes. Of course, I said yes. I'm not sure how she came across the photo, I forgot to ask. I assume she used "Google" to find it. It always surprises me but I can't tell you how many times I've used Google for something and found my own photos appearing! And it's always fun to see my work make it's way in the world. I'm supportive of legitimate and ethical journalists that remember to ask permission, too! The photo not only appears in the story itself, but is also used on their front page running banner, and on the Real Estate first page teasing and linking to the story. A good time was had by all, lol!

This is how it appears on their page one running banner.

• The link to GoLocal Providence, here. Click on Real Estate and then the "Winterizing" story.

Front Page News

Front Page! My commissioned rendering of Acura's upcoming NSX sportscar was featured on the front page of Detroit's Automotive News last week. Due to be shown at the Detroit International Auto Show in a couple of weeks, I worked with an editor at the newspaper to render this V6, hybrid, mid-engined sportscar from his recollection of a press briefing. It was a great experience. I first wrote about it all, here. I'm especially amused by the rainbow-colored advertisement below my illustration!

Closeup of the illustration and my bold faced photo credit!

• My work is also featured this week in the Autoextremist's Year End Review, a great honor, as always! Along with my work for Automobile magazine earlier this year, it's been a fun year, and the first year in which my car renderings have been seen in print.

Automotive News Calls Me

Typical front page of the Automotive News, a Detroit-based newspaper and website.

Shameless Self-Promotion Part 99—Late last week I was contacted by an editor of the Automotive News, a Crain publication. He had seen my cars at Peter De Lorenzo's Autoextremist, an "inside Detroit" website known to my loyal readers for often featuring my cars. The AN editor wondered if I could do a rendering for their next issue, a quick turnaround of a few days. He had been to a press briefing of a new car but was not allowed to take photos. I would be working from his memory. While working on a print resolution rendering like this would be always stresses me out a bit—my car art is really my hobby and a way to relax—I said yes. I can't say what the car is, I can't show the piece on my blog until after the upcoming North American International Auto Show at Detroit's Cobo Hall in January, but I'll post a link to their website when it appears there after the print edition. 

While it was a flurry of "chopping" while I was getting it just right, with my typical late nights, it was a really good experience. The editor was very cool to work with in emails, the car came out really well, and it's always nice to have my work recognized by people in the publishing, and automotive, worlds. This makes the second print publication to use my car art this year—Automobile featured three pieces of mine in their June issue.

2011, for me, is going to go down as one of those "Best of times, Worst of times" years, lol. I'm not sure what to wish for in 2012!

Wowzah!

Self-portrait from 1999-2000, in front of my old '83 240D. 

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As of this morning, Casey/Artandcolour has logged more than 10,000 hits from 281 separate posts! When I started this blog in late February of this year, I had no idea how long I would do continue it, I had no idea if anyone would find it or read it, I was pretty much clueless about its future! All I knew was that I had plenty of car chops to post if I couldn't think of anything else. As time went on, and I started receiving feedback, writing the blog seemed to be the most natural thing, a real extension of my art and my life. So I have a big thank you to say to everyone that has been clicking on my posts and commenting on them and for entering my life! I spent ten-twelve hours just yesterday scanning and working on old and new photos for this blog, and I  have a seemingly endless supply of things to post in the future. So, stay tuned, stay cool, and let me just say...

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Artandcolour In The Autoextremist This Week

S H A M E L E S S   S E L F - P R O M O T I O N — Hey Friends! Just letting everyone know that Peter M. De Lorenzo is running a few of my chops in his widely-read website, the Autoextremist.com this week. De Lorenzo is a former executive in the automobile industry, has been writing his phenomenal weekly website for more than ten years, and is read by virtually everyone that is anyone in automobile land—just read some of his weekly letters. The signatures read like a Who's Who of the 'Biz. I've been contributing chops to his site for a few years now—every once in a while—and it's always a huge, huge honor for me. The Autoextremist is without a doubt the most recognition my digital work has ever received. Make sure you check 'em out over there!

My cars are posted in his On The Table section here. And as always you can read his entire website using the link in my Blog Roll at the right, or right here.