The Artistic Biker

Sketches and Musings

  • Evil Gall Bladder Is Evil!

     

     

    A couple of weeks ago my beautiful, young bride’s gall bladder decided to ASPLODE! OK, it didn’t really blow up, but it did end us up in the hospital for an emergency gall bladder… ectomy?  Anyway, it’s gone now and she has fully recovered.  But we still did a page and a video about it.

    This week’s What’s On Your Easel Links:

    Watch the full show on Ustream or in the embedded player:

     

     

    Watch the 5 minute version on The YouTube, or in the embedded player below:

     

  • Daddy-Daughter Breakfast 25FEB2012

    Daddy/Daughter Breakfast Sketches 25FEB2012

    Wholly Crap did we have breakfast early that morning!  Girl2 had her first soccer game of the season at 9AM Saturday, and the fields are an hour away.  That means we had to go to breakfast and get back before 7am so we could get changed and leave by 7:45.  So at 6:15 we were standing outside of our usual breakfast cafe only to discover they had changed their hours.  Now they don’t open until 7.  UNHAPPY FACE!  Anyway, since we’re not cry babies, we walked back home and got in the truck in search of another cafe.  THEN, just as we were about to get to the soccer fields, a train STOPPED on the tracks in front of us!  Luckily we noticed it happening in time to turn a block away and circumvent that sucker.  We still made it to the game early enough for warm ups!  I know that’s not as exciting a story to the rest of you, but for us, it’s a pretty big accomplishment.

  • The Classroom 21FEB2012

    composition rule breaking

    This week I discuss the process I go through when planning a painting composition. I touch on the golden mean, then quickly reduced it to the rule of thirds. I talk about cropping out uneccesary stuff and then how to break the rules for emphasis.

    Click Here to watch the recording of the class.

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  • 5 Minute Nudes Feb13-Feb19

    NUDITY ALERT! Duh! I am spending 5 minutes a day practicing drawing naked ladies nude figures. This is part of my #100DaysArt process where I pick something to practice for 100 days in a row.  Here are the 5 minute nudes for the week of February 13, 2012 through February 19, 2012. All of the previous 5 minute nudes may be found in the Gallery under 5 minute nudes.

    5 min nude 13FEB2012

    5 min nude 14FEB20125 min nude 15FEB20125 min nude 16FEB20125 min nude 17FEB20125 min nude 18FEB20125 min nude 19FEB2012

  • A Brief Note 19FEB2012

    Hello Peoples!

    WooHoo! The display panels in the gallery have all been sanded and the wainscoting has been cut for installation.  Then stain the floor and a slick coat of paint and the gallery will be done!  It would not have been possible without your generous donations.  Keep spreading the word and we[‘ll keep fighting.

    Drawing class will be from 7-8p central time for the foreseeable future.  I find that when I have drawing class at 6, I not only have to leave the day job early to get everything set up in time, but I don’t get home in time to play with my babies.  This way, Artmom can swing ’em by the studio prior to class and we can share a McNugget Happy Meal.

    The day job has me out of town traveling again this week so I don’t know if there will be an Artistic Biker Live! on Thursday.  Be sure and follow me on twitter @BladeTheArtist for any updates in that regard.

    We need topics and interviewees for Midnight at Oasis.  The topics can be any subject: politics, religion, sex, environment.  The only requirement is that they have to be related back to creativity.  For instance: how have world economic pressures affected your ability to find time to art?  I’ve started a Facebook group here: http://www.facebook.com/groups/382982991728276/ so go join up and suggest topics.  We’ll set up a poll to vote and interview people over Skype.

    This time of year we are ALL severely limited on fundage so we may be building with used pallets.  If you would like to help with that, you can go to artisticbiker.com and look for the DONATE button on the right side column and donate what you can.  If you can’t do that, please share this newsletter with everyone you know to help get the word out.  That helps more than you know.  Or better yet, Click Here to Join! artisticbiker.com/membership and help promote the arts in rural Oklahoma.

    If you have any announcements you would like made in the newsletter or tweeted about incessantly, drop me a line and I’ll toot your horn for ya.  ;)  There were no announcements this week.

    I’m going to keep the same password for a while so the password is: arting

    The Classroom site is http://www.ustream.tv/channel/oasisgalleryok

    This week in The Classroom: Composition. How, where and why to place stuff in your art.

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