Gearhead Illustrations
Classic Muscle Car,Detroit Iron, and Corvette Art
Dana Forrester
Dana Forrester
Dana began painting Corvettes about 1989, two years after buying the 1966 Sting Ray Coupe he had wanted since childhood. He had always loved Corvettes in general, but the lines of the Sting Ray Coupe made the car seem like sculpture as well as a sports car.
Dana's first Corvette paintings were of his own car and meant only for his own pleasure. He has no intent of showing them publicly. The series of paintings he was known for nationwide and with which he made his livelihood were of the brick wall signs often featured behind Dana's cars.
A fellow club member encouraged Dana to show some of his Corvette paintings which were so well received that in 1990 he published his first limited edition series of a 1960 red and white Corvette in front of a brick Chevrolet dealership.
That image sold so well that Dana decided to spend about half his painting time with the Corvette image and half with the regular brick images. Now, almost all of Dana's painting time is dedicated to the automotive subject.
Because each painting takes so long to complete, Dana can only create a small number of original watercolors each year. Most originals become limited edition prints, except for the custom orders that Dana creates for private clients.
Dana Forrester is a native of Kirksville in northeast Missouri and graduated from Northeast Missouri State University (now Truman State) in 1969 with a BSE in Art Education. After spending time as an illustrator in the U.S. Army, Dana moved to Independence, Missouri, to teach advanced high school art, where he simultaneously pursued both his teaching and painting careers.
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