If you remember, a couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that I had a bad case of cabin fever and decided to ride the Harley out to see my mother and sister in Charlotte, North Carolina in a couple of weeks. Well…I’ve got help at the shop up lined out and our house sitter is going to feed the gold …
Spring is in the Air!!
Yup! Feels pretty good doesn’t it? There’s nothing like the fresh smell in the air after a spring rain shower. Everything even looks cleaner and brighter. Things are starting to green up a bit, a few bulbs poking their bright flowers out of the ground. Birds nesting here and there, new calves and lambs on the ground. Time to climb …
Biker Chic
Since I went to the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in Sturgis, South Dakota this summer, I’ve been doing some paintings of the “characters” I photographed on Main St. So far I’ve been painting the guys. This is a 16×12 oil I recently completed featuring one of the the biker babes that was in Sturgis. This particular gal seemed to stand out a bit. …
Whiskers
This is the 3rd painting in the Stars of Sturgis 2010 series. It is a 12×12 oil I ‘ve done from a photo I took in Sturgis this summer. This guy was parking his bike on Main St. and had obviously just arrived from somewhere. He sure looked road weary. The wind in his face had whipped him to the point …
The Stars of Sturgis
A couple of weeks ago we rode the Harley to Sturgis. For those of you who don’t know, Sturgis, SD is home to the largest motorcycle rally in the US…maybe the world. I don’t know. The numbers just released by the officials of the rally said there were something around 400,000 motorcycles crossed their counter into the little town of Sturgis …
Have You Slept in a Wigwam Lately?
I just finished one of the most challenging paintings I have ever undertaken. All of the lines of perspective and information necessary to make the painting what it is took a huge amount of effort but I really had fun doing it and am pleased with the way it turned out. The painting depicts some road weary motorcyclists checking into …
The Wigwam Motel
Part of what I get to do in my job (as an artist and writer) is travel around on my Harley, riding the back roads and scenic routes looking for stuff to write about and anything that would make a great painting. On a recent rip over the Memorial Day weekend we had the good fortune to stay at the …
Bow Lake Morning
This is the painting of Bow Lake I was referring to a few posts back. I finally got it finished and yes I did crop 4 inches off of the bottom. This makes the painting a 28 x 40. The reason I cropped it was because I wanted to lower the horizon line, thereby putting more emphasis on the upper two …