The new Olds!

I'm once again joining Erika aka BioArtGal who is hosting Art Journal Journey this month with her theme Vintage or Modern.  This will be my final AJJ entry this month, so I want to thank Erika for hosting and creating such wonderful art.  Susi and I are both proud and thrilled with both her hosting and her art.

Today is definitely vintage.

Even the dates convey that.

As do the cars.

We are looking at the new Olds!

For this page, I began by adding various dye inks to a baby wipe, then swiping the wipe on a page of 110 lb card stock.  I enlarged a Date Due card from an old library book, then colored it with tea and walnut ink.  I resized the two cars, cut them and rounded their corners.  Then I added the words using a gel pen.

For those of you who may not know, the word "Olds" stands for Oldsmobile, an American car originally manufactured by the Olds Motor Vehicle Company in 1897.  It was the first mass produced car and the first to incorporate an assembly line.    Many people believe that distinction goes to Henry Ford, but Olds started it in 1901.  Ford was the first to manufacture cars on a moving assembly line, so this is the distinction.

General Motors, one of the big 3 automobiles in the U.S. today, purchased the company in 1908.  Olds was always ahead of its time, the first to offer automatic transmissions, V8 engines, and first American front-wheel drive, to name just a few.

Sadly, in the late 1990s, GM was more interested in GM brands and decided to shut down the Olds line.  Even though the Olds SUV sold better than GM's model, GM could not be swayed.  An interesting tidbit I found on Wikipedia:

The Oldsmobile division's last completed production car was an Alero GLS 4-door sedan, which was signed by all of the Olds assembly line workers. It was on display at the R. E. Olds Transportation Museum located in Lansing, Michigan, until GM's bankruptcy when they retook possession of the car. It is now located at the GM Heritage Center in Sterling Heights, Michigan.

Bleubeard and I are so happy you chose to join us today and hope to also see you at Art Journal Journey.

For Day 28 of Art Every Day Month (AEDM), I created a journal page.