1962 Norton Manx 500

This stunning illustration is by Australian artist Gaston Vanzet. Gaston is completely obsessed with drawing and painting classic motorcycles. Each picture usually takes him around 3 weeks to finish and this is how Gaston describes the experience: "I love painting these motorcycles, I become one with the machine as I end up knowing every detail, every curve and fin, they become mine". These days he does the painting on his computer using a Wacom tablet - "the technique is nearly the same as the old days of paint and turpentines except there is no mess". Each stroke is still done by hand except for the backgrounds which are combinations of photographs mostly from his local area. To view all these amazing illustrations visit the gallery at Custom Motorcycle Art, also check out Gaston's blog to get some history about the artist.