Turn 10 / Le Mans Winners Enter Sebring

[Chris24]

Damn Lee,

I didn't know that you could paint just was well as you can take great photos. I have always liked that Corvette GTP painting but never knew who painted it. "Its a small world afteral" to steel some lines from Disneys ride.

[Lee Self]

Thank you Chris, Thank you Fax

Here's one of my all time favorite little pantings:

[Martini...LB]

Excuse me Sir, ever so humbly, are you famous...and...and...please can I have some more pictures...that last Porker is excellent, but it could be the pretty colours.



Martini...ever so humble

[Lee Self]

Thank you Martini,

here's another:

[amazing 1]

ssswwwweeeeeettttttt !!!!

[gab]

Lee,

Been a fan of yours since Mark and Tracy of the PC Pirates introduced me to some of your masterpieces one warm June evening in a field in France. Look forward to meeting the artist in person. See you at Sebring.

[Fax]

Lee,
Your style tends to remind me a lot of Michael Turner.  I've always been a huge fan of his.
Fax

[Lee Self]

Gab, thank you.

Mark and Tracy are some of my favorite people. Worked closely with them when we did ALMS radio web in 1998 & 1999. Sure miss them.

Look forward to meeting you.

Fax: RE: "style reminds you of Michael Turner"  Bless you! 

OK lets get this thread back on track, its about Sebring after all:

http://www.selfstudio.com/images/paintings/bayside_night.jpg

I can bring some posters over to the track if you CA-ers are interested...

[BigH]

Blimey, we've got the painters in!
Lee, your work looks very nice indeed, I'm sure you're quite rightly very proud of it, and it's a reminder about how much difference the livery design can make to the aesthetics of a car. It's all a matter of personal taste I know, but did anyone think the DeWAlt design on the TVRs a couple of year ago was anything but awful? I can see Porches are your thing, and I have a signed Tony Smith of the Shell 962 Silk Cut Jag battle of 1987 hanging in my office. For me, that Shell paint scheme was the best I've seen on a 962.
Despite the Jag hysteria, I have to admit, when no-ones listening, that I considered the Silk Cut livery to be a bit awkward, what was that mustard yellow stripe all about? They came good in the end though with the all purple scheme used on their last visit to LM, that looked fantastic.
Great stuff mate and best of luck on your book sales, I hope you all enjoy Sebring!
H

[Fax]

Hi Lee,
Sure bring some posters along.  I purchased the Castrol Jag-Sebring print because it reminded me a great deal of some Turner stuff I have.  Really like the Joest Daytona winner too.
Fax

[Lee Self]

Fax: I'll have posters wth me then!

BigH: just for you... Stuckie in the car...


-Lee
"working to keep this thread right at the top, just under the stickies"

[Fax]

Interesting that most people seem to have a dislike for the Silk Cut color scheme.  Apparently its a opinion shared by some design experts as well.  Recently in Motor Sport (I think it was MS?) they had a review of the best & worst all time motor racing sponser jobs by experts in the field and the TWR Silk Cut scheme was considered a disaster by all.
I never thought the silk cats looked that bad. Personally I thought most of the Benetton F1 cars of the ninties looked like someone threw-up on them.  I like the "keep it simple stupid" theory, JPS Lotus, Parmalat Brabham, Penzoil Penske Indycars, etc.
Fax

[BigH]

Wahayy, Hans up!
That reminds me...
Well, I say "reminds me", but some of the details are a bit vague. It was during the Friday night before the race (in the last year of the old pits/paddock, 1990?) and me and a couple of mates, having narrowly escaped the clutches of the Beausejour Butcher, found ourselves wandering among the team tents in the paddock, in a terrible state of dishevelment. We stumbled over the factory Porsche tent and struck up a conversation, using the international male language of hand signs, hicoughing, farting and inane grinning, with the lone night watchman. He had been left to keep an eye on the cars while the rest of the Porsche team slumbered, and we soon established that in true German fashion, he was keen on a drop of beer, something that we had lots of, and he had been trusted with none. For a few bottles he let us in the tent and gave us a tour of the cars, and I can proudly say that my arse was the penultimate visitor to Derek Bells seat.
Derek, if you're reading this, I'm so very sorry.
H

[Lee Self]

My favorite cars are beat up and dirty (like 12 or 24 hours later...)

Sebring winning Eagle GTP:


is it time to drive over to Sebring yet?
-Lee

[Fax]

Holy Crap H! Its all your doing!
When you got into the 962 and started playing around with the switches and damaged the pick-up in the reserve fuel tank, now we know why when Klaus went to go on reserve it wouldn't pick up the last couple of gallons.  Wow! H your the man!  You changed the outcome of the 1988 LM 24 Hours.  Tom Walkinshaw should personally thank you.
Fax