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Lorryart Greeting Card featuring the painting Leyland Octopus by Mike Jeffries

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Leyland Octopus Greeting Card

Mike Jeffries

by Mike Jeffries

$4.70

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Our greeting cards are 5" x 7" in size and are produced on digital offset printers using 100 lb. paper stock. Each card is coated with a UV protectant on the outside surface which produces a semi-gloss finish. The inside of each card has a matte white finish and can be customized with your own message up to 500 characters in length. Each card comes with a white envelope for mailing or gift giving.

Design Details

YOU TOO CAN COMMISSION MIKE TO PAINT YOUR VERY OWN ORIGINAL OF YOUR FAVOURITE VEHICLE BRITISH OR AMERICAN, A SOUND INVESTMENT FROM WHOM MANY REGARD... more

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Comments (5)

Dusan Vukovic

Dusan Vukovic

You're in denial, Sir.

Mike  Jeffries

Mike Jeffries

I don't quite follow you, what are you trying to say?

Dusan Vukovic

Dusan Vukovic

I'm writing a note in your unique style: a nice Mercedes truck (cab, whells, steering wheel... has everyting and Mercedes, are not you? So many similarities there, my image and Shiskin image...

Mike  Jeffries

Mike Jeffries

Thank you John for the fav/vote

Mike  Jeffries

Mike Jeffries

Thank you Jose for the feature in your group Stop time with Art.

Artist's Description

YOU TOO CAN COMMISSION MIKE TO PAINT YOUR VERY OWN ORIGINAL OF YOUR FAVOURITE VEHICLE BRITISH OR AMERICAN, A SOUND INVESTMENT FROM WHOM MANY REGARD AS BRITAIN'S LEADING TRANSPORT ARTIST. JUST E-MAIL mike@transportartist.co.uk

Sealandair were a haulage company contracted to John Summers steel to haul their products nation wide but their lorries also transported scrap back to the blast furnaces for re-cycling. They ran a huge fleet, mainly Leylands, and many were re-bodied and re-cabbed during their lifetimes which accounts for this lorry�s 40�8 tyres under a �Mouth Organ� type cab.
Sealandair lorriers in my memory always seemed in a great hurry and inevitably overloaded and one was advised to get out their way if you knew what was good for you!

This painting 20″�30″ in oils on board was painted for a calendar in 2004 and sold later to a Leyland enthusiast.

A painting like this of your favourite vehicle, British or American, in oils on ca...

About Mike Jeffries

Mike Jeffries

COMMISSION A PAINTING FROM MIKE. It is with great regret that I have to inform you that Mike sadly passed away November 2020 aged 81, but I, (his partner) will keep his shop here going and am happy to reply to any emails you might send to his own email address at mike@transportartist.co.uk. Virtually nobody considered the humble lorry worthy of the subject of a painting until Mike made it so. Years of being at the sharp end of long distance HGV driving has given him an insight and knowledge into the industry that enables Mike to depict lorries as they really were in the past and not the idealized view of the less knowledgeable making him the man to paint an original of your favourite commercial vehicle. He is without a doubt THE lorry...

 

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