Bikes
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Last time I saw an angel I was out on Shore Drive right by the lake. I looked over to a stretch of houses overlooking the water and she just flitted by on her bike. Wish I had a camera, but all I have is my memory to paint from.
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Ichabod Crane the Fourth rode into the neighborhood, parked his bike under a shuttered window and followed the sound of a rockin’ beat into a nearby bar known as Louie’s. Never to be seen again? Naw, he just stayed for the first set and then went prowling around the French Quarter for a decent roast…
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I owe it all to Walter Rutkowski. He was my professor at LSU who said something like this to me way back in 1981: “Okay, draw that again 20 more times.” So, I did. Forty years and countless iterations later I can tell you beyond a shadow of a doubt that Dr. Rutkowski’s instructions stuck.…
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Here’s what I wrote about Fadeaway Bike way back in 2014: It was time to paint a bike fading out and fading in at the same time.
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This is the bike linocut I made. This is the basic black and white image, but I’d like to explore other possibilities with color.
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“Am I imagining this?” he asked aloud. He leaned his bicycle against the wall. Having no kickstand, the only other alternative was to lay it down on the pavement — not a good choice even though this part of the Mid City New Orleans neighborhood was deserted at this early hour. He heard a distant…
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A blue light bathes a quiet street scene. A bicycle is parked on the pavement outside of an apartment facing out on a cobblestone street. An empty chair is seen nearby. The apartment door is ajar, revealing a vacant room filled with a warm, welcoming light. An open window lets the fresh air in.
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A delivery bicycle is parked on the pavement next to an open door somewhere in the French Quarter. An empty chair is seen nearby. The street door to the apartment is left open, revealing a lighted room with a blue light. It’s a cool blue. New Orleans is bathed in a warm light tonight. PURCHASE…
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Two sisters, Shirley and Betty Jo, had one bike. Not each. Just one bike. They had to share, in other words. It took a year or two to get the hang of it. Not the bike, I mean sharing. In the beginning they played tricks on each other to have the bike for themselves. For…
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Wander through this virtual gallery of of my bike art!
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Buy this tee shirt on Amazon I’m ready to get outside! My poor bike, the Bee, has cobwebs in the spokes. What is it that keeps us from doing the right thing? Ennui! What day is it today, anyway? Blursday! What’s keepin’ me from hoppin’ into the saddle? The Devil! What would the Bee say…
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The whole print-your-art-on-anything has got me wondering. How many artists are producing awesome bike art for throw pillows? I don’t know about other kinds of artists, but for Bicycle Pillow Artists (of which I am one) the answer is quite simple: BPA (Bicycle Pillow Artists) = xyz where x is the number of artists who…
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It’s starting to dawn on me that things are changing for the better. Finally. So I’m celebrating that with a painting of a bicycle casting morning shadows on a French Quarter sidewalk. We each have our own way of expressing hope, and bike portraits do it for me. PURCHASE ON REDBUBBLE
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I used Photoshop to combine Jo the Houseghost with Bike Alley in the Fall.
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Here’s a new painting named for our neighborhood in New Orleans between Baronne and Dryades.
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Here’s state 3 of the new block print, The Goodwill Bike. It’s 4 x 6 inches.
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The “Four Eyes: An Optical Collusion” exhibition opened tonight. This is the Treasure Valley Artists’ Alliance’s latest show and the theme is all about celebrating collaborations. Lauren and I painted this for the show. You can see it at the offices of Boise State Public Radio, 200 E. Parkcenter, Boise, Idaho from June 6 through…
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For the upcoming “Four Eyes” show, Lauren T. Kistner and I collaborated on a painting. A couple weeks ago we started brainstorming, which escalated to exchanging emails and lists of possible approaches, and finally got to The Moment of Truth in the studio. A blank white canvas awaited. After more talking and not painting, Lauren…
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Back in the studio today, working on a painting of a bike, of all things. It’s called Caravaggio’s bike because: I met a guy in college who after 3 years of so-so figure drawings adopted a renaissance glazing technique and his work suddenly blew me away. I’m drawn to that technique now. ‘Bout time. Maybe…
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I fell off my bike painting cycle, but jumped right back on. I dream of making a thousand sweet paintings of bicycles, so getting unsaddled every now and then comes with the territory.
Angels on Bikes 