painting more bicycle racing

by cooper on 7/2/2008 9:35:16 PMComment on this

Greetings!

Today would have been a good day to be like an octopus with eight hands, er, tentacles. I could have worked on at least four paintings at the same time, I'm pretty sure.

I settled for one, that being another look at the Great River Energy Bicycle Race. This one, I promise, will have actual bicycles in it. I've cropped it down pretty tight---aren't we always told that putting too much in is the first big mistake? Aargh! But there was so much happening, and it was so exciting---it seems like a crime to leave any of it out. I guess that will have to be my excuse for yet another painting, eh?

I have two really smeary images for you, that I'm sure only I can see anything happening in. Then I've got a third that might actually show you where I'm headed this time. The first is just a page of thumbnail sketches to help me figure out where lights and darks needed to be. Lately it seems that if I skip this step, I head for trouble that takes twice as long to correct. The next image is a smearing of paint vaguely in the shape of the chosen thumbnail. #3 puts a cyclist on the canvas---yea! Progress.

Later, Cooper

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