The Artistic Biker

Art traveling and journaling

  • Don’t Skip the Composition, Even in Space

    Don’t Skip the Composition, Even in Space

    Click here if you’d like to see the reference photo This morning’s sketch took us deep into the Star Wars archives. I pulled a CR90 Corellian Corvette from the toy box.

  • Snails and The Blank Canvas (BCS)

    This week’s two themes in the studio were snails (because that’s what came up on the randomartigraph) and dealing with blank canvas syndrome. You may or may not know this about me, but I love arting about the tiny things, especially the things that are usually connsidered slimy. But it’s not slime. It’s mucus. Except…

  • Dandelions and Bad Art

    The themes for the week were Dandelions and to Make Bad Art. Years ago when I was feeling creative, I would make lists of things that interested me and write them on a stack of business cards. Then, when I wanted to art but didn’t have a subject, I would shake the sack and pull…

  • Renaissance Man, or, A Faire to Remember

    A couple of weeks ago, the family and I went to the  Texas Renaissance Festival and had a great time. My wife and I dressed up a bit, the kids went all out, and I got to spend the day experiencing fresh air like a true Scottsman. This past weekend, while the wife and kids…

  • Chicken Adventure

    Recently I read a study about how humans mark time. Why Christmas seems so far away to kids, but New Years was just a few days ago to adults. It boils down to “core memories”. When you’re a kid, there are tons of FIRST TIME events. The first time you saw a duck was an…

  • The Creator’s Spark – An Introduction

    Pablo Picasso said, everybody’s born an artist, and the trick is to remain an artist as you become an adult. That is to say that everybody is born creative, that creativity is inherent in the human experience. Everybody has a creative spark. Most either believe that we were created by an Almighty Creator, or that…