The Artistic Biker

Art traveling and journaling

  • The Santa Signal

    Every year on Dec. 24th the Santa Signal calls Kris to duty!So a lens fell out of my glasses this week. I'm a cheap frugal sort of fellow and am waiting for my insurance benefits from the day job to renew after January 1st to get new ones. Since I'm on vacation this week, I…

  • Painting Class: Popcorn I

    Tonight, I demonstrated the horrors of not prepping a surface properly, creating a background underpainting, and began blocking in the shapes for the popcorn forground. [nonmember]This class is no longer available as free content.  All classes are left free online at Oasis Studio’s Ustream for four weeks after recording.  You may download and watch at…

  • Drawing Class: Cones & Zirconia

    Tonight we looked at the basic structure and shading of cones.  Using a spraypainted party hat as a model, I demonstrate the basic shape and shading of a cone.  We briefly discussed applying that to other triangles and cones in diamonds, bottles, and even the negative spaces in plants. [nonmember]This class is no longer available…

  • A Brief Note 18DEC2011

    Hello Peoples! Wholly Crap has ANOTHER week passed ALREADY?!?  All I really managed to accomplish this week was to get four new canvases primered and sweep up the sitting area in the studio. Of course, spending all day playing with Girl2 at The Hobby Lobby and The Home Depot didn’t help to get things done,…

  • Art Journal Holiday Diets

    Diets are freaking POINTLESS during the holidays. People will for just OUT OF THE BLUE bring a spiced bread or home made fudge or bag of candy coated chocolate covered cherries… So I journaled about it. :) The Ustream blew a breaker 20 minutes in, so there is a part I (http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/19170588) and a part…

  • New Stuffs!

    So, since I was SO incredibly happy with my waterbrush filled with ink, I decided to try it with a whole series of pigmented inks. I bought the primaries and secondaries of Dr. Ph Martin's Bomby pigmented India inks (http://www.cheapjoes.com/cat/5670/) Of course, before I can do anything else with them, I have to experiment to…