Garth Glazier

Imagine what it would be like to walk into a commercial art studio in Detroit in 1981 without any formal training as an illustrator and ask for a job and you will have a pretty good idea of how my career as a professional illustrator began. As a graduate with a BFA from a small liberal arts college I knew that I had to find a way to make a living by drawing. Getting a job in a studio gave me a chance to learn from some of the best talent in the country. I always planned to return to fine arts, but after 28 years I am still in 'the business' and still finding ways to get paid to draw and paint and make art in a variety of media.

Photography has remained a passion for me over the years and classic cars offer plentiful subject matter for creating images. Well restored classic cars are works of art to me. As subjects these bright shining jewels lend themselves to the creation of lush images that recall the days of the great Detroit car painters.

I use Photoshop to lightly modify some images, while others are presented nearly unchanged from the original shot. I use a rapid fire technique in photographing subjects, often taking five hundred to a thousand pictures in a few hours. My background as a painter accounts for a tendency to work fast with the camera. I see photographs as quick individual studies of the subject. Moving constantly as I take pictures, the result is a variety of images framed in subtly different ways and from different angles.

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