Here are a couple of turquoise/teal Cadillacs seen in Davis last month. One of them (the one above) is usually parked in a carport across the street from me, and not super easy for me to get a look at to draw, but one day all the residents on our street had to move their vehicles so the surface could be relaid, and this was then parked out on a street near the greenbelt. So I went out with my sketchbook and drew it. It’s quite a magnificent car actually. To a kid in north London the Cadillac was like some alien ship, you would just not see them in England, only on big movie screens and on old American TV shows. I do remember seeing one though, and it was a pink one from the 70s, parked in Burnt Oak. I think it made the local news. But American cars, especially the older ones, can be massive. You’d never fit one of these down my old street. They were things of aesthetic beauty though, weren’t they? These days, cars seem to all look the same. I daresay they probably said the same thing in the 50s. There is something really satisfying about seeing magnificent old cars though. The one below, also a Cadillac and in a similar colour, was parked downtown in Davis, and so I had to do a quick outline sketch of it, drawing the details and colours in later. I drew in pencil too which was fun, trying to do that a bit more. I don’t know enough about the year of model of these (I don’t remember seeing that on the car), so if you know, let me know in the comments. I love to draw classic cars; there was a classic cars meet-up in Davis last weekend, but I never went because I was feeling a bit tired on that day, and it was hot. I should go to the California Automobile Museum again sometime.