--- description: One of them serves as the cover art for his new album, Storytone title: See Neil Young's Unique New Watercolor Paintings image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # See Neil Young's Unique New Watercolor Paintings by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 6, 2014 4:06 PM CUT by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 6, 2014 4:06 PM CUT Neil Young doesn’t just [sing about painters](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWFpf6MdcQo "undefined") — he’s also a painter himself. In his new memoir, _Special Deluxe: A Memoir of Life & Cars_, the musician shares watercolors and prints, all depicting one of his greatest passions: cars. Young’s artwork is also on display [in an exhibit](http://www.robertbermangallery.com/exhibitions/neil-young-special-deluxe "undefined") at Los Angeles’s Robert Berman Gallery, now through the end of November. One of the paintings even serves as the cover art for Young’s latest album, _Storytone_, which debuted this week:  Neil Young Here are a few of the other works that illustrate Young’s memoir:  Neil Young  Neil Young  Neil Young “I started with photographs, then I started thinking that photographs didn’t really go anywhere — they’re just photographs,” Young [told](http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-neil-young-art-20141105-story.html "undefined") the Los Angeles _Times_ about his foray into painting. So he tested out some watercolor and charcoal paintings — and ended up with around two dozen works illustrating his memoir. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3560810/neil-young-storytone-art-watercolor-paintings/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3560810/neil-young-storytone-art-watercolor-paintings/"},"headline":"See Neil Young's Unique New Watercolor Paintings","datePublished":"2014-11-06T16:06:12.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:48:20.083Z","description":"One serves as the cover art for his new album, Storytone","url":"https://time.com/3560810/neil-young-storytone-art-watercolor-paintings/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music","cars","Arts"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3560810/neil-young-storytone-art-watercolor-paintings/","name":"See Neil Young's Unique New Watercolor Paintings"}}]}] ```