New digital art.

The sun was reflecting off of my handlebars in a cool way last night so I used my camera to take a few shots.  After looking at them and working with them a bit, you could start to see some movement between them.  I like how it's turned out.

Raising Odin

Sat down and started in on the Odin's Revenge give away paintings.  These will be the larges coffee bikes I've made yet.  I used a small bowl and Starbucks espresso for the wheels.  First bike to sketch in...Salsa Warbird.

Coffee Bike #17 - Yipsan randonneur

Renold is a friend and frame builder.  He emailed me a few weeks before this post and suggested that I try out one of his custom bikes for a race I'm doing this summer.  So to show my appreciation just for being thought of in that situation, I made him this.  This is larger then most of the coffee bikes I do.  I used a coffee mug instead of a Styrofoam cup.  It allowed me to get a bit more detail and help with adding color.  It's hard to portray a certain color when the tubing is just a thin line.

I really like the way it turned out.  The original now resides with him.  Enjoy Renold!

Tribute to Andy Warhol via my morning commute

I've been thinking for sometime about doing some different pieces of artwork that are stylized by famous artists.  Injecting my own love of bikes upon a certain artists style.  Trying to mimic there work the best I can.  A tribute of sort, but also a learning experience by trying to see what they saw.  What they were trying to accomplish by there use of color, technique, and over all approach.  Gaining a greater respect for the artist and putting a few more tools in my own artwork arsenal.

So this morning I took some terrible pics on the way to work.  They weren't great really on any level.  So I decided to play with them.  Andy Warhol has always interested me.  I would have loved to have had lunch with him.

Here's the original -

I did two different variations on a couple different pieces of Andy's work.  The first I used - Details of Renaissance Paintings (Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus, 1482), 1984 as inspiration.

 For this one I sorta used Gun as a go by.  I was using the shades of blue trying to convey the cold that I was feeling this morning on the commute.

I really enjoyed doing this.  So expect more!

Next three Alpha bikes - CX, XC and SS

Here's the next few Alpha bikes I've gotten done -

More to come soon.

Took a few pics a NAHBS and rolled them into one

Had a great time.  I took a lot of pics but I should have brought my other camera.  Need a bit more resolution for what I was hoping to do.  Live and learn.  If you can see this on your wall and you just can't live another moment with out it, please head on over to Zeroack@Society6 and order one up.

GG postcard done and gone.

The first Alphabet post card is done and gone.

Odin's Revenge here I come!  Special thanks to Guitar Ted for having such a cool bike to mimic.