Category Archives: Paintings

Current Art work using toy cars as base materials.

Tri-Lad

Derek Miller
2005
Mixed Media
72″ x 54″

SigAlert

I’ve lived in other places besides Wichita, Kansas. Maybe someone from the West coast will get this, or maybe an occasional visitor of KNX1070.

Car Spangled Banter

Derek Miller
2008
Mixed Media
72″ x 54″

This is the painting I submitted to the Shepard Fairy/Democratic National Convention show for a juried exhibition. I was denied. My art work was not illustrative enough.

sCARab

Derek Miller
sCARab
Mixed Media
72″ x 54″

I am interested in semiotics. Maybe more semantics than pragmatics, but semiotics is definately the vehicle. I think the scarab symbol makes for a nice recycling symbol, or a blue collar laborer.

Auto Domingo

Derek Miller
2007
Mixed Media
72″ x 54″

All American

This is one of my paintings using toy cars to create a secondary image. The painting is six feet tall (72″ x 54″) and it weighs about sixty pounds. Depending on the size of your monitor, you are viewing an image that would be normally seen from about twenty to thirty feet. In the gallery [...]