Wienermobile: Sketching The Hot Dog on Wheels

[@tau3457]

Your art made an impact on me in the 1990s and still is doing so 30 years later. All the best.

[@JamesGurney]

Thanks! I feel lucky to have been doing art professionally for more than four decades, and that’s only possible because of the interest and support of people like you.

[@RLDSTUDIO]

Thanks for answering my audio question. I actually almost fell out of my studio chair when I heard my own voice! Thanks for sharing your thoughts, approach and techniques as always. I treasure your videos and insight.

[@user-io9hj9ip2d]

A painting of the iconic oscar mayer weinermobile? now this is high art.

[@nmlss]

More than a decade ago me and my family visited NYC, a trip we all wanted to do for a long time. The first thing I remember seeing when I was right in the city was the Wienermobile, near Times Square (close to the hotel we stayed in). Never saw one before, but since that day I saw a few here in Spain and every single time it makes me think of that family trip and brings me good memories.

[@enoshade]

I'm an aspiring art student from Europe, and it's also fantastic to see not only your immaculate capturing of space and place, but also the portrayal and documentation of everyday American history, which seems both familiar and foreign.

[@cheychc]

Oh my goodness the puns at the end lol Great video! Thanks James!!

[@beckyisj]

"Frankly I'd relish the chance" what a great ending line!

[@lynnbarclay4241]

I knew one of the drivers and she gave me a weenie whistle. Totally made my day hahaha.

[@Blick_Art]

For those of us who have fond mid-20th c. childhood memories (maybe you got to see this in a parade or grand opening event), this painting captures a little bit of what it was like, when packaged fun foods were favorite summertime treats, and everything seemed new, shiny, and larger than life. (One of our team still pines for Space Food Sticks and won't stop mentioning them.) Speaking of shiny, those reflections are just perfect!

[@weirdeer95]

That's what I love about Gouache: soft colors like watercolor but you can cover with light colors as if they're acrylic. Thank you for the content, your videos are inspiring for me! 🥰

[@garydrawsandpaints7745]

It’s amazing how you have such loose control over that red and yellow reflection on the paint job James. Nice concise video as usual

[@normg2242]

Amazing how you caught that shiny surface! I also learned another thing from your videos: You don't have to go to faraway places to get good objects to paint. It's not the object, it's what you make out of it. Thanks so much for being one of my main inspirations on KZbin!

[@DannySabraArt]

Incredible painting and fun background. Loved hearing the explanation on highlights. Very fascinating. Thank you and happy Independence Day!

[@ChristinaMandy_art]

James, I'm always inspired after watching your videos. When it comes to cars, buildings, technical or symmetrical things, I'm pretty much self taught, but your videos encourage me! 👩🏻‍🎨

[@deborahcorreale352]

Loved the painting of the wienermobile, brought be back to my childhood and seeing those commericals with the wienermobile. I appreciate all the detailed information you give throughout your paiting process you are such a great teacher. Thank you

[@alexanderquiroz9275]

Very beautiful work great teacher 🙏 cordial greetings from Medellín Colombia 🇨🇴

[@y9y-f9q]

YES!!! YESSSS IT'S THE WIENERMOBILE! YESSSS HELL YES DUDE. I am so STOKED for this gouache painting demonstration bros. It's the frickin' Wienermobile are you kidding me

[@nuummuun]

"have a word from our sponsor" :) Thanks for the painting , James.

[@carolhestand2561]

Thank you for this lesson and memory road!!!

[@MTheoOA]

I love how you paint, really.

[@petermot645]

Thank you for always enlightening different subjects to paint.

[@dougg1075]

Friggen awesome as usual:) The painting looks like it’s from the fifties or sixties. Perfect

[@leeoscarmeyer9484]

I always thought my name was a burden given to me by my parents, but today I’m proud to bear Oscar Meyer as my name. I’m a fan of yours, James

[@MrHurley61]

Very good James, always a joy to watch and listen. Thanks.

[@jakovj.m.5322]

You both feel like kids in a toy store 🤩

[@oppositeofh8]

thanks for the longer video -- & fabulous subject matter. 😻

[@mekhi087]

Thats so cool

[@jenslingspaint3523]

Fantastic breakdown of a complicated scene as always. Thanks Mr. Gurney!

[@ciscoponch67]

Happy 4th, James!!! Thank you for da Wiener! I did own the whistle. ❤ 😊

[@lancejames9228]

Thank You James for this wonderful video and a glimpse of our past.

[@spiritualseekeramor]

You have such a steady hand, painting those fine lines! Very neat piece 😊

[@lukafilm]

That popping arrow made my day 😅❤

[@berolinastrassmann]

This is so funny and memorable! Thanks for showing it to us. Regarding painting in museums. I live in 🇩🇪. Many museums offer portable seats and even drawing boards to draw. Some Museums have restrictions to paint with wet media -and only allow dry media like pencils. These measures have appeared after the attacks on paintings by activists here in Europe. Still, I find it pretty cool that they offer portable seats and drawing boards. ✏️📝

[@josephinastover5785]

Thanks!

[@JamesGurney]

Welcome! And thanks for your generosity.

[@mkbuike7895]

Thanks for the great demo! I've twice sketched the weinermobile in the wild! Though I grew up 50 miles north of Detroit, I never went to the Henry Ford Museum. I'm surprised they let you paint in the museum. All the museums I've been in have "pencil only", most say so on their website. Even the Museum of Flight here in Seattle recently told me they want pencil only, though they know I've sketched there in ink and watercolor for years. I'm grumpy about it.

[@808v1]

very nice, thanks for showing this. Enjoyed it.

[@ZeeCeeCreations]

Amazing, as always!

[@alighassan8339]

Amazing as you always.

[@northernembersoutdoors1045]

Been a wee while for a good length video, I struggle with gouache, 1 in every 10 looks alright, just self teaching, but this is my favourite channel on art without a doubt, thanks for that.

[@iramardesouza4663]

Excelente trabalho!!!!

[@iramardesouza4663]

Você é um mestre!!!!

[@user-sb3wh3dd4v]

"Frank-ly I'd relish the chance!" HA!

[@geronimus-prime]

🤩 Lettering on the fourth layer of gouache? Is there a painter's equivalent to _popping wheelies_ ?

[@sketchbookscheming]

What a cool subject for a painting. I relish your videos! They help me to improve my skills, but I know I will never ketchup. 🌭

[@JamesGurney]

Glad you mustard the courage to comment.

[@sambuck8710]

17:23 relish... the chance... 🤣

[@peckerdecker]

great video. fab demo. any chance you can share your 1985 sketch book of london? cheers.

[@ritawilbur6128]

My bologna has a first name, it's O-S-C-A-R! My bologna has a second name, it's M-A-Y-E-R. Oh, I love to eat it every day, and if you'll ask me why, I'll say: 'cause Oscar Mayer has a way with B-O-L-O-G-N-A! Ok, different product, same company.

[@sclogse1]

I've been inside one. The little "Oscar" guy was in there with his driver. I brought my girlfriend's kids. Oscar was a tough little shit. Coulda been in a Scorsese film. When these boats pull into a parking lot, they bounce.

[@nykcrisis]

Mr Gurney could you please do a video showing some of your older sketchbook?

[@Tser]

I've sketched in museums many times. In some cases, my bags are searched as I enter and no one has ever mentioned my sketching supplies. In some cases, as I am standing and sketching, museum workers have brought me a stool! I do sometimes ask, and sometimes I don't, depending on the location. In general I think museums are probably used to people coming in and sketching. However, I usually do not bring a water container and tube paints to indoor public spaces, out of paranoia for my clumsiness, but I should practice more at places I know it'd be okay if something went catastrophically wrong, to gain confidence. Generally I bring my pan watercolors and waterbrush along with colored pencils, even though waterbrushes are definitely not my preferred way of working.

[@Shebacca6000]

Omfg I was just thinking of your paintings. Fricken wiener mobile. I love it

[@winstonwesleydesign]

Do you have ground under paint on this painting? It looks like just the white of the paper. I see in your other videos you sometimes use red or paint a ground first. So why not in this case?

[@songbird515]

The Weinermobile actually stopped by wy workplace once, nothing got done for the next hour.

[@seventhsun1]

The painting looks great James, but there is one thing I can't skip, the left side red oblong around the Oscar Mayer logo do not curve as it did in some of your shot of this subject, thus it ruins the perspective IMO.

[@Jordan-tu4ki]

Did you paint in Greenfield village, too?

[@LoveBystroem]

Lol I just finished a plein air painting

[@paulrogers6037]

This would be a wein-aer painting

[@bloodynose129]

How do you get the recorded questions?

[@JamesGurney]

People who saw a scan of the painting a while back sent me spoken questions via Speakpipe.com, which I wove into the voiceover edit.

[@Handsome_Christopher]

😂😂Frankly I'd relish the chance!! 💀💀⚰️⚰️

[@greyareaRK1]

Considering the ingredients of hot dogs, it ought to be the Mystery Mobile. ;-) Completely unsurprised you used to have a VW van. I love the subject - that quirkiness is one of the things I like about the US.

[@inkonmyhands]

Is this a 4th of July special episode??

[@DanCastelli78]

If you missed the relish joke you’ll have to ketchup with your bun’s…. I mean puns.

[@Gringle_]

Hot dog !

[@MillywiggZ]

Wonder if that thing's still edible after all these years hahaa!

[@AwesTube]

James Gurney sounds like a mix between Jerry Seinfeld and Garfield

[@edwinbeta2806]

😭

[@silver9489]

I'm gonna be honest, despite watching all of your videos the subject of this video made me click on it almost instantaneously. Guess Oscar Meyers marketing scheme has worked so well

[@fakepivot]

always a pleaser to watch you paint.

[@MewenPng]

Lol

[@kaydenfinn2651]

👀 Promo-SM

[@MysteryD]

Unfortunately, they went and changed its name last week. Now it's the "Frankmobile"

[@MichiganFan70]

So cool.

[@tonyred520]

Crazy how a reaction video specialist can get 500,000 more followers than this brilliant artist?