A vintage race car leans into its own speed. The body is drawn in bold reds while the background breaks up into streaks and splashes that do the moving for it; greens and whites hold the palette steady, so the energy comes out of the handling rather than out of noise. It is a picture for people who hear engines in their sleep, and it settles just as easily into a modern room as into a deliberately retro one.

Technically the work stands alone in this catalog: the only piece painted in watercolor and acrylic together, the two media giving the surface both washes and weight. The support is canvas at 31.5 × 23.6 in, a size for above a desk, a workbench or a hallway console, and it fits a home office or a finished basement just as well. Like every painting the studio makes, it was a one-off: signed, with no edition standing behind it.

Cars are old ground here. Before rugs and canvases, Derr specialized in custom automotive finishes, and the subject keeps coming back: the catalog also holds a hand-tufted Retro Speed rug, its own composition on the same theme. The affection for these machines is not decorative, it is biographical.

A car portrait can be commissioned from a photograph, with composition and size agreed before any painting starts. Open the conversation with an inquiry and a photo of the car; the studio replies within a day with how it would handle the portrait and what it would cost.