Professional Cycling - painting le Tour

i'm following the 2009 tour de france with a paint brush :eek:
3 weeks of pain and torture...lovely :D



here we go!
cancellara is an animal!

cool

stage 2
another perfect lead out from team Columbia
Mark Cavendish wins the sprint and takes the green jersey
...but you all knew that

thanks kat
appreciated

Nice.

thanks haimtoeg
they are fun to paint!

These are pretty cool. What medium are you using?

leroy nieman fan i see.

i use acrylics for these small studies exit
but i like oils too!

never heard of leroy nieman botto
thanks for the mention i checked him out
and i could imagine him being a fan of me :D

Very nice!!

i use acrylics for these small studies exit
but i like oils too!

never heard of leroy nieman botto
thanks for the mention i checked him out
and i could imagine him being a fan of me :D

I like your work. Now, if you can sell your art for the same prices as Mr. Nieman, that would be brilliant :D .

East Hill

Do you sell your bike paintings to poor college students? Want to PM me with a price for some pre-done stuff, or some custom stuff?

My apartment walls are bare. Well, except for a research poster I did last semester. But who the hell thinks that is art?

hey thanks for liking and letting me know guys :thumb:

keeper :)

that would be great east hill
maybe try JPradun

JPradun,you've got an apartement :eek:
things can't be that bad :D

yesterdays windy stage
finally a break that stayed away...just!
Voeckler is in there

I love these paintings! If you're interested in selling, I might be interested in buying.

erm...

I agree with everyone else. Beautiful work and I can totally picture having one hung up in my place. Please do let me know if you intend to sell them.

Please do let me know if you intend to sell them.

Add me to the interested list as well.

These are great. Thanks for sharing. I'm sure you could make some decent money for livestr... err beer in your fridge campaign.

I'm generally not a fan of the impressionist style, but it seems appropriate for capturing the feel of cycle racing. Very nice.

Add me to the interested list as well.

+1, me too.

Ok I know you're not painting little red Xs.

I can't see them - do you have a site?

wow,thanks everyone for your kind words,interest and enthusiasm...
it feels good in my tummy!
i've pm'd everyone...i hope,
if not you can get me here,
rijbema@hotmail.com
and here www.paintingletour.blogspot.com (http://www.paintingletour.blogspot.com)

i'm trying to paint a stage a day,no promises though,as life has got an habit of getting in the way,i'm sure you know what i mean.
but if the riders can sit on the bike for more than 4 hours each day,i should be able to do a painting a day,especially with you lot cheering me on!
now i need a massage...

a nice bit of scenic for you on this lovely rest day...
downhill on the tourmalet

your giro paintings were spot-on as well! nice stuff!

willing to bet you would do a brisk business selling lithographs (if you so desired) to the tifosi at a stage
depart/finish/classic mountain stage roadside. likely enough to pay your way to the tour(s) every year-and more. :)

Beautiful and what a style to capture the thrill of cycling. :)

a nice bit of scenic for you on this lovely rest day...
downhill on the tourmalet

Wow! I really like that one.

Are they for sale? Click your sig?

ooga you might be right,i just don't like doing prints,it takes away painting time :D

thanks unsafe and dmf
your enthousiasm keeps me going!

untouchable!
that cheeky so and so...
nr 4 for Columbia and Cavendish

How does one buy one?

i send you a pm merlin...

i think everybody wanted Big George in yellow after that big break-away on stage 14
and after years of riding for others..everybody except Carmin slipstream...

That's my favourite. it captures Le Tour for me.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1svkIPf2r7s/SlsOJLv6DDI/AAAAAAAADMI/T9j5wS3W5fw/s1600-h/tourmalet924.jpg

How does one buy one?

:lol:

thanks gotte ,one of the best bits of the tour
the amazing landscapes...

what would the tour be without the schlecks
top blokes!

blimey!!
another one for cav!

It is nice to see something other than the 800 billion photographs taken of this event.
dc

Awesome stuff.

thanks guys
thanks for cheering me on :thumb:
nearly there...
every stage painted!



stage 20 Mount Ventoux



and stage 21 Champs Elysees

that's it i'm done...:twitchy:

off to Poland :D

I like the story and the motion, but the Ventoux almost looks like there's grass growing on it - which is just ... wrong. ;) (<- joke on a Phil Liggett commentary that you may not have heard)

The Champs Elysees pic is just awesome. Congratulations. And thanks for posting here.