The Artistic Biker

Sketches and Musings

  • Art Journal Inverted St. Patty’s Day

    Last week on The Artistic Biker Live! I used opposite colors and then used my computer to invert them and paste the resulting image in the corner

    You can watch the video at The You Tube, or in the embedded player below:

     

     

  • The Dark Muse

    My buddy Juriaan has gathered up a BUNCH of his fine art and craft art and performance art and you-name-it art colleagues and friends and has made himself a little magazine called “The Dark Muse”. It’s a VERY ambitious project in that he aspires to include ALL things art. Now THAT’S living the creative life! Bravo, my friend, bravo!

    Check out his magazine, The Dark Muse http://thestudio.freeforums.org/the-dark-muse-downloads-f21.html

  • Linda Israel To Join Me In Studio!

    We’ll have a special treat this week on The Artistic Biker Live! as mixed media artist Linda Israel joins me IN STUDIO!

    Linda has been featured on HGTV’s “That’s Clever” and has hosted many workshops at her home studio on Yukon, OK.  Check her out on her website http://www.lindaisrael.com.

    Be sure and “tune” in EVERY Thursday night to The Artistic Biker Live! as we explore many different techniques and styles from artists around the world.  Thursday evenings from 6-8 pm cst at https://www.artisticbiker.com/ustream!

  • Art Journal Experimenting

    This week on The Artistic Biker Live! I played around with some Pebeo Setacolor Transparent paints.  Setacolor Transparents are photoreactive, meaning they interact with light.  According to the instructions, if I paint on a layer at a 1:2 mix with water, then put some masking material down and set it in a bright light, the paint will only set up where the light could hit it.  So I used my art journal and some scrap watercolor paper to test it out in studio.

    You can see the results in the video at The YouTube, or in the embedded player below:

  • Videos and Newsletter Goodness?

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    There are a lot of new newsletters floating around this year! So many of them just want to spout about what they are doing. A lot of them want to offer advice or a lesson. Mine so far this year has been an offering of all the daily drawing challenges and videos posted on my site through the week. That works out well for me because I can automate it. My day job is such that at a moments notice I can be whisked away to save some damsel in a dress in a foreign land (Texas). Automating it ensures that it comes out every week on time. But, like my show, I don’t want it to only be about me. I want to list upcoming events around the web from other artists. I want to highlight the really cool stuff that other people are doing too. That’s where you come in. What kinds of things would you like to see in this newsletter? Do you know of any upcoming classes online or in the world? Email me with suggestions or comments!