Pebble Beach Concours 2006
Pebble Beach Concours 2006 (click to enlarge)
Pebble Beach Concours 2006
Title: "Pebble Beach Concours 2006"
by Jay Koka, © 2006, Pebble Beach Company
42”w x 50”, acrylic on canvas, Patterson Collection

Jay Koka: "Commissioning for the Pebble Beach Concours poster is a most exciting and in some ways intimidating event. With some 50 years of history, the event posters have been executed by many of the world's pre-eminent automotive artists… it can be a tough and overwhelming act to follow.

Of course everyone wants to do the "best yet" poster and I'm no exception. But even more than that, I wanted to do a poster that was not only visually exciting but also to the extent possible, somewhat unique.

I didn't want to use the golf course and bay but I did want to use The Lodge… and both of those backgrounds have been used countless times. The Lodge, while attractive, is mono-chrome so my solution for visual excitement was to force the color of the magnificent tree in the circle and make its warm rich colors the focal point of the painting. The beautiful black 1936 Delahaye 135M Figoni & Falaschi Competition Coupe from the Patterson Collection is a stunning presence no matter what the background so that in many ways was the easiest part. If a viewer sees the circle in a way they've never seen it before: I've done my job."





Fall 2006
Fall 2006 (click to enlarge)
Fall 2006
Title: "Fall 2006"
by Jay Koka, © 2006
48”w x 36”, acrylic on canvas, Private Collection

A second work completed primarly to test a concept for the 2006 Pebble Beach Concours poster (above) again featuring the 1936 Delahaye 135M Figoni & Falaschi Competition Coupe from the Patterson Collection.















Rolls at the Ritz
Rolls at the Ritz (click to enlarge)
Rolls at the Ritz
Title: "Rolls at the Ritz"
by Jay Koka, © 2008
48”w x 30”, acrylic on canvas, Private collection

This 1934 Rolls-Royce Sport Sedan was the showcar displayed by the Park Ward coachbuilders at the '34 Earl's Court Automobile Show in London. Features a "fast-back" body style. Shown at the Amelia Island Concours held on the Ritz Hotel grounds.


Wings and Wheels 2006
Wings and Wheels 2006 (click to enlarge)
Wings and Wheels 2006
Title: "Wings and Wheels 2006"
by Jay Koka, © 2006
24”w x 36”, acrylic on canvas,
Private Collection

Event poster art for the Muskegon Air Fair 2006.




Concours Morning No2
Concours Morning No2 (click to enlarge)
Concours Morning No2
Title: "Concours Morning No2"
by Jay Koka, © 2006
24”w x 18”, acrylic on canvas
Private Collection

Jay Koka: "This paintings continues a series of finished paintings as well as high quality studies that began with the first Concours Morning painting. All have that huge tonal range that attracted me to the concept in the first place."



Other images in the Concours Morning series




Elegant
Elegant (click to enlarge)
Elegant

Title:"Elegant"
by Jay Koka, © 2006
24”w x 18”, acrylic on canvas
Private Collection

Small but exceptionally elegantly rendered. On the lawn of the Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach Florida during the Cavallino Concours.













Z to SUZ
Z to SUZ (click to enlarge)
Z to SUZ

Title:"Z to SUZ"
by Jay Koka, © 2006
36”w x 48”, acrylic on canvas
Artist Collection

A very large painting of the Koka family fleet in 2006 in the Koka family driveway. Cathy's 'Z' and Jay Koka's Murano. Both black (...of course!)











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