HOLLYWOOD CAR ART.com

                                             WHERE the ARTIST/DESIGNER WAS BORN & RAISED:

The artist/designer DAVID JACQUES D'GOLD was born and raised in California amidst villages and townships outside of the San Francisco Greater Bay Area, growing up with one older and four younger brothers.  

                                                        ART & FORMAL EDUCATION/CAREER:

Midstream during the artist's six years of formal college and university studies he received and accepted a full academic scholarship to attend a large private university where he continued his studies in many varied aspects of art and design with an evolved major in the principles of industrial design.  He received three BA degrees with a major in Manufacturing Industrial Design (BA of Fine Arts) and minor BA in Art, and BA in Graphic Design.  

His twenty five year career as a professional industrial designer consisted of working for differing types of manufacturing companies (mostly imaging giants).  The artist/designer was employed primarily in New York State, some in the Midwestern States and several times in Southern California.  After gaining sufficient experiences in the process of industrial design as an employee, he ventured out on his own as a professional industrial design consultant practicing for many years.  Concurrently, he was an adjunct professor at Rochester Institute of Technology, Art Center College of Design and The Academy of Art.

                                          RETIRED EARLY AND BEGAN HOBBY IN ART DRAWING :

The ever increasing outsourcing of U.S. manufacturing jobs over the past many decades to foreign countries, to include his career of supplying consulting industrial design services resulted in a growing unstable client base for him to operate in.  After twenty-five years of practicing as a professional industrial designer, out of necessity, the artist/designer disappointedly left his career in Industrial Design.

Jacques D'Gold invented a new career for himself that was purposely, totally free of any manufactured products that would be outsourced by manufacturing companies that too often did not appreciate his talent, skill and successful track record in facilitating the top selling of products.  Thus in order to feel productive, he continued producing hand drawn industrial design concepts -- yet this time it was of international brands of classic motorcars in artwork.  

Thus out of necessity, he transformed himself into becoming a classical artist, with hand drawn artistry of period style, residential architectural illustrations with elaborate backgrounds showcasing international prestige classic motorcar designs and popular domestic models.  Thereby leveraging his life long, highly developed skills of conceptualizing visual imagery by hand drawing into envisioned ideas and enveloping his love affair with period, residential architecture and classic motorcar design.

                                  ORIGINS OF ARTWORK GENRE of HOLLYWOOD CAR ART.COM

The artist/designer of HollywoodCarArt.com began with hand drawings designing architectural elevation residential house facades depicting nostalgic, period fashionable home styles of the eighteenth and nineteenth century influenced by English, French, Italian and Colonial Period America.  Secondly he progressed into drawing, his favorite prestigious, vintage antique/classic motorcar designs from the 1930's Great Depression Era to match the period house facades.  Thirdly he created backdrops in a theatrical stage, set-designing fashion with background scenery,  environments of French, Italian, English and American Colonial period style through a multiplicity of techniques in hand-drawn artwork.  

He is now, not only showcases hundreds of automobile drawings depicting classic motorcar models from the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, he has expanded the automobile repertoire of model years and brands to include various popular international models, up to the present today, in international, luxury and super-sports models.

                                                  ORIGINS of the "HOLLYWOOD" CONNECTION 

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A decade ago, the artist/designer of HollywoodCarArt.com had experienced while selling small, framed artwork of his Duesenberg classic cars, an enthusiastic response to the often connection between the various Duesenberg Model J cars to Hollywood celebrities like Clark Gable, Gary Cooper and Greta Garbo.  This is where the idea of "HOLLYWOOD CAR ART" came from, and now generally every automobile make and model he has hand drawn is somehow associated with some major or lesser known Motion Picture Films or Television Series, and in some cases the car is or was owned by a famous celebrities in the Entertainment Industry.

                                 WHAT TYPE OF AUTOMOTIVE PRODUCT DIPICTED IN ARTWORK

                                                             of HOLLYWOOD CAR ART.COM:

HOLLYWOOD CAR ART.COM has hundreds of automobile drawings covering one hundred years of design and manufacturing, depicting American, English, French, German and Italian brands.  The displayed classic and contemporary modern car wall artwork comes in a variety of forms from period to modern architectural backdrops, and some with panoramic scenic backgrounds and others with the automobile shown alone in a variety of simplified, generic backgrounds.  

                                                         WHAT FORM OF ARTWORK SOLD:

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The artwork pieces of HOLLYWOOD CAR ART.COM will be offered in phases as primarily signed, limited editions in giclee canvas reproductions, yet can offer a small amount of quality paper prints and art cards.  The artwork product line will be available to the general public through specified online sources.  As it will be announced at an unspecified time in the near future.

                                                       WHERE THE ARTIST RESIDES TODAY:

The artist/designer resides in Upstate New York amidst villages and townships -- where he delights in the spring, summer and fall climate, engulfed in luscious green foliage.  He enjoys spending winters in the Southwestern states.  He has a son and daughter with grandchildren spread out across the United States.

                                           DEMONSTRATED TALENT IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL:

In the third grade his teacher saw artistic talent in him and commissioned him to paint large holiday murals on white butcher paper with poster paints to be displayed around the class room. At the age of eight he had become very proficient in shadowing techniques as having been made aware of in Walt Disney animated movies and popular cartoons on television.  As he trained himself artistically to render showing light and shadow as to denote three dimensional form in colored crayons first and then quickly progressed to other mediums.

                                                 STARTED DRAWING CARS AT AGE THIRTEEN:

When the artist was thirteen years of age, his mother purchased a ream of 11x17" white paper at the Big Red Barn Flee-Market on Highway 101 in Aromas, California (a common photo copying size).  The chosen medium to draw with was acquired colored pencils, as this was the medium that his mother used for landscape drawing in art class in high school.  

                         CONTINUAL USE OF NEW TYPES OF ARTIST MATERIALS & PROCESSES:

The young teenage artist chose to draw side views of popular automobiles as seen in magazines such as popular models from Chevrolet, Pontiac, Buick, Cadillac, Ford, Lincoln, Chrysler, Imperial, Dodge, Rolls Royce and Jaguar, in middle school and throughout high school, drawing cars in colored pencil.  As an adult, during his stay in Sacramento, and afterwards, he continued his car drawings progressing into drawing 1930s Duesenberg and Packard models progressing into use of colored pastel to emphasize shadowing, and use of watercolors and markers.  

                                          LIST OF INTERNATIONAL MOTORCAR BRANDS

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For the past few decades, the artist/designer has continued his artwork depicting the following international, motorcar brands:

1920s to 1930s (Pre WWII) classic motorcar, luxury brands as Packard Twelve, Auburn Model 851-852, Cord Model 812 & L29, Duesenberg Model J, Cadillac & V16, Lincoln Model-K & KB-12, Bugatti, Delahaye Type 135, 165 & 175 V12 , Hispano-Suiza J12, Isotta-Fraschini Type 8A & 8B, Talbo Lago, Mercedes Benz 500K, Horch Type 853, Rolls Royce Silver Ghost, Phantom & Springfield models.

1940s (Post War) classic motorcar, luxury brands of Cadillac, Imperial, Lincoln, Packard, Rolls Royce Silver Wraith, Bentley Mark Series, Jaguar Mark Series and Mercedes Benz. 

(Later to include custom woodies from the late 1930s to 1940s from British and American luxury brands as Rolls Royce, Cadillac, Packard, and Lincoln, in saloon/sedan configuration converted into square-back and/or fast-back Woodie station wagons.)

1950s to the 1980s International classic, luxury brands as Cadillac Eldorado & Seville, Lincoln Continental & Mark Series, Imperial Crown (Chrysler), Rolls Royce Silver Wraith, Silver Cloud, Silver Shadow & Corniche, Bentley, Jaguar, and Mercedes Benz 300SL.

(To include 1990s to present models from Rolls Royce, Bentley, and Mercedes Benz.)

1950s classic International sports roadsters & coupes as Chevrolet Corvette and Ford Thunderbird, BMW, Ferrari and Jaguar.  (Some brands into the 1960s and others into 1970s.)

1950s to Present to include the complete Chevrolet Corvette models to 2025, early Ford Thunderbird models up to the late 1960s -- plus may add the last generation in the 2000s. And a future endeavor of including the entire full model years of Ferrari and Porsche from the 1950s to 2000s.

1960s to 1970s classic American Muscle Cars as Chevrolet Corvette, Chevelle, Camaro, Impala SS, and Monte Carlo, Pontiac GTO and Grand Prix, Oldsmobile 442, Buick GS, Ford Mustang, Dodge Charger, Challenger, Coronet Super Bee, Plymouth Barracuda, Road Runner and Super Bird.

(To include the Retro-Muscle cars of the 2000s as the Chevrolet Corvette and Camaro, Ford Mustang, Dodge Challenger and Charger.)

1980s Cadillac Eldorado & Seville, Lincoln Mark Series, Rolls Royce Silver Shadow and Corniche, Ferrari, Lamborghini and BMW.  

1990s brands such as Ferrari, Lamborghini, Bugatti, Mercedes Benz, Porsche, Aston Martin, Rolls Royce and Bentley.

2000 to Present UK brands of Aston Martin, Jaguar, Rolls Royce, Bentley, with French brands of Bugatti, the German brands of Daimler Mercedes-Benz, Audi & Porsche, along with Italian brands of Ferrari and Lamborghini.  Plus American Retro-Muscle as mentioned above.  This is not a complete list -- as other brands will be added (as not mentioned here) with both older classics and newer models...

            LIMITED EDITION GICLEE REPRODUCTIONS, PRINTS & MOVIE/TV CAR POSTERS  

HollywoodCarArt.com is now in the process of offering a massive collection of Motion Picture Films & Television Series, automotive artwork to the public in the form of signed, limited edition canvas giclee reproductions and quality paper prints with some movie entertainment style posters of famous cars. 

                                                          HOW TO BUY THIS ARTWORK: 

In phases the art pieces will be introduced and sold through various online market sales sites .  

                                                        WHERE TO BUY THIS ARTWORK:

The online website sellers will be announced on this website at a future, unspecified date.