TREVOR'S DRAWINGS
BY DRIVER/POET/ARTIST TREVOR HARDWICK
Back in January of 2008, when we started doing this column, we talked about Trevor’s abilities in both poetry and drawing. Up until now, for the most part, we have focused primarily on his poems. This month we wanted to show-off some of his drawings and allow him to describe, briefly, what he drew and why (and in some cases how). Trevor has no formal art education but has been drawing since he was 4 or 5 years old. When he was a kid, he’d go down to the truckstop on weekends and listen to drivers talk about their rigs (or one they used to have). After making a quick sketch, he’d surprise the driver with it. Today, Trevor still enjoys drawing people’s trucks and then surprising them with the picture. These are just a few of Trevor’s truck drawings, so look for more of them in future editions of 10-4. If you’d like Trevor to draw your truck, contact him at truckintrev124@yahoo.com.
This is a mixed medium painting/drawing that I donated to a school auction for my nephew’s Christian school. As most of you know, the truck on the left is Optimus Prime from the popular Transformers movies. The truck on the right is the Optimus Prime from the original cartoon that folks my age know and love from the 1980s. I changed the Transformers logo to say “Be Transformed” which is what Romans 12:2 talks about in the Bible. I used acrylic paint, pointillism, colored pencil and black ink to complete this drawing on 24” x 32” poster board. I had fun creating this picture, and was happy to watch it get auctioned-off to an older couple - and raise some money for my nephew’s school.
This is one of my favorite paintings. It’s all acrylic and water color paint on a 24” x 32” poster board. I dig the old trucking shows from the 1970s and 1980s, so this is the Kenworth W900A from Movin’ On and the K-100 cabover from BJ and the Bear. I had Paul Sagehorn in mind when I created this one. Although I’ve never met Paul, I have read articles about the trucks he owns that were used in the filming of these two shows. On the green truck, the arrowhead spears don’t continue onto the driver’s door in this painting because that’s how I last saw the truck. At one point, I intended to send this picture to Paul, but a friend of mine liked it so much I just ended up givingit to him instead.
For Father’s Day one year, I drew this up for my dad. This is a cabover Freightliner he drove in the 1980s. I spent a lot of time in the shotgun seat of this truck, riding back and forth between Arlington, WA and Clearwater, FL hauling Bayliner boat parts. On the front of the cab it said, “Time After Time” on the driver’s side and “Reasons to Quit” on the passenger side. Those were two of my dad’s favorite songs back then. The funny part is that the guy who did the lettering misspelled the phrase “Reasons to Quit” and made it say “Reasons Too Quit” which made no sense, but my dad left it anyway. I just loved that truck! This drawing is done in markers and colored pencil on poster paper.