The Artistic Biker

Sketches and Musings

  • Whatchya Doin’ Wedensday 10OCT2012

    The Easels

    For a while now, I’ve had a feature on the show called, “What’s On Your Easel”.  Most people only show me their finished works instead of what they are currently working on.  So I’m changing the venue to be “What do you want to show off this week?”  That’s too long of a tile, so I’m going with “Whatchya Doin’?”  Here’s this week’s submissions:

    My friend Dewey sent these:

       

     

    GShilly sent:

        

    Athala sent:

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Girl2 sent:

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • Video 09OCT2012

    The Video

     

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    http://youtu.be/0XeHTVMp8kE

    Since it is the first week of this year’s Halloweeny Season, I did a spooky, scary page of what happens when I compliment my bride wrong.  All I said was, “There’s nothing sexier than a woman doing housework!”

  • Weekly Roundup 07OCT2012

    The Art

    Candlelight Red Naked Ladies Big Rooster

    I’m really into the bright colors and close up point of view right now.  I can never seem to turn a camera on while doing one of these.  It always turns out that I’m sitting there trying to decide what I’m going to paint, and then suddenly I’m painting.  Once I decide what I’m going to paint, these are usually done in just a few hours.  Wacky.

     

    The Easels

    Every week, I ask for submissions for The Artistic Biker Live! “What’s On Your Easel” feature.  In this case, your easel is wherever you create, whether its painting, drawing, practice, sculpting, any of the visual arts, or photographs of your culinary and performance arts.  The submissions will go here.  If you would like to submit something, send me a photo of it to blade@artisticbiker.com, or tweet it to me @bladetheartist.

     

    Daddy/Daughter Breakfast

    Sadly, this week’s Daddy/Daughter Breakfast didn’t happen.  We stayed up until 1am, unheard of for a 7 year old.  Girl2 didn’t even roll out of bed on Saturday until 10 and then it was time to leave for her soccer game.  She has an early game next week too, so we probably won’t get to go then either.  That’s the ONLY thing I dislike about her playing soccer.

     

    The Video

    The Opening

    http://youtu.be/YdTaIjTBu-Q

    This week’s video is a slideshow presentation of just some of the work involved in getting the studio opened.  This was a lot of work and I can’t thank everyone enough for all of their encouragement along the way.  There is still a lot of work to do, but getting open is a HUGE achievement.  Thank you all so much!

  • Oasis upgrades

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    This weekend I dug in and made some serious upgrades to the studio. First I was able to have my art bench wired with its own breaker. That means no more extension cords all over. Second, I was able to install a sound system that would let the the kids shriek without drowning me out. That’s a HUGE accomplishment in and of itself. That means in Thursday nights I don’t have to make my family feel ostracized for the sake of the show. Awesome. It’s been a lot of work and I’ve had to forgo a video for the week, but I think it’s been worth it. Besides, I may STILL get a video out by Wednesday.

  • Weekly Roundup 09SEP2012

    The Art:

    Acrylic on 2.5" x 3.5" playing cardBlue MoonWendyDragonflyFrog

    I’ve been painting these little minis in an attempt to work on my detail skills and as a way to raise revenue for the studio.  They are 2.5″x3.5″, acrylic paint on the backs of The Artistic Biker playing cards from the poker set I had made.  I’ll be putting up videos of these along the way so you can see how a few of them are done.  I’ve actually been painting three or so of these a week, so it shouldn’t take long to get quite a collection of them.

     

    The Easels

    Every week, I ask for submissions for The Artistic Biker Live! “What’s On Your Easel” feature.  In this case, your easel is wherever you create, whether its painting, drawing, practice, sculpting, any of the visual arts, or photographs of your culinary and performance arts.  The submissions will go here from now on.  If you would like to submit something, send me a photo of it to blade@artisticbiker.com, or tweet it to me @bladetheartist.

    Daddy/Daughter Breakfast

    Girl2 had a soccer game Saturday morning.  So we went for breakfast EXTRA early.  Turns out when you’re early like that, there’s almost no waiting for service.  Of course, that doesn’t leave much time for sketching, but we don’t starve out waiting on the food either.

    Daddy/Daughter Breakfast Sketches 08SEP2012