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The Artistic Biker is me, Jonathan "Blade" Manning.
A treasure troll of a man, with hobbit feet and a sharp pointy head. You may see me traveling up and down the highways of Oklahoma looking for the next place to sketch, paint, sing, dance, write, photograph or simply meditate. I have begun a journey that once set upon, there is no turning back. You can share in my blunt force journey through the art world on my weekly U-stream broadcast
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5 min face 17MAY2012

May 17th, 2012

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Day 17 of 29 Faces and day 78 of 100 Days Art.

5 min face 16MAY2012

May 17th, 2012

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Day 16 for 29 Faces and day 77 for 100 Days Art.

5 min face 15MAY2012

May 16th, 2012

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Day 15 of 29 Faces and day 76 of 100 Days Art.

5 min face 14MAY2012

May 15th, 2012

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Day 14 of 29 Faces, day 75 of 100 Days Art.

Sunday Round Up 13MAY2012

May 13th, 2012

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This week’s youtube video is the Clutter page.  With everything going on that week, my desk, my house, my life and my minder were all a clutter.  So I did a page about it.  You can watch the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0BAkJNtaHA

This week I will be out of town for the day job so I won’t be able to do art class on Tuesday.  I SHOULD be able to make The Artistic Biker Live! on Thursday.  I’ll keep my fingers crossed.

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Also, I have been participating in Ayala’s 29 Faces challenge.  A face a day for the month of May.  Except you get two days of wiggle room.  I feel like I’m cheating because I was already doing the 100 Days Art 5 min faces and she said I could just use them for her as well.  That’s good, because I’m not sure I could take on another set of faces to draw right now.

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 Girl2 and I went to breakfast very late Saturday.  I caught her mid blink for this pic and it looks like she’s about to pass out.  I thought I would try capturing a few faces in the crowd around me.  She did a self portrait.

The gallery is coming along nicely.  I was there until after 2am Saturday staining the floor.  It turned out pretty well, but it’s not dry yet.  Also, there was some old glue on the floor that I couldn’t really get scraped up, but after I flooded the floor it started coming up on its own.  I’ll have to scrape that off before I can seal the floor.  I hope more of it doesn’t decide to float when I put down the sealer.

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Lastly, I’ve been asked to announce that Rhomany is hosting a workshop on stylized portraits.  She was SUPPOSED to get me a blurb about it, but artists can’t be bothered with details, right?  :) Anyway, check out her classes over at her site, http://rhomany.org.uk/classes/

Also, my buddy Jay has been putting together some portrait classes.  You can check out his you tube lessons here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9D3YAr38NY&feature=plcp

 

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