Private Parking V

Don Eddy grew up in California, where he began working at an early age on custom detailed paint jobs for his father's garage. Using photographs as his source for images, Eddy employs an airbrush to build a base for warm and cool colors by applying layers of green, brown, and purple in minuscule circles. Eddy then adds twenty to thirty coats of transparent pigment to build the final look. Photographic visual devices--such as the contrast between sharp and soft focus--achieve a strikingly photorealistic, rather than realistic look. In Private Parking V, a fence, through which a lineup of vehicles is visible, reinforces the illusionistic effect and teases our desire to "enter" the scene.