Let's go for a bike ride....

Hi Everyone!  I wanted to share with you the project I started on Sunday but didn't finish until tonight.  I loved riding bikes as a kid.  And I've always liked the look of old bicycles.  I've been collecting images of vintage bicycles and Sunday I decided to make a bike painting.  I found a large canvas, in fact I found three of them in my stash.

....So I took this blank canvas and prepared it....

(Sorry, no photos of the individual steps).

From the Graphic Fairy

 This is one of the graphics I have been collecting....and is my inspiration for this painting.

....I started by painting the canvas antique white...

...When it dried, I painted it with an antique medium.....
...and lightly sanded the canvas...

...then I painted light grey stripes across the canvas to look like boards...

 ...if you look close you can see the faint lines....

...And I painted this bicycle by looking at my inspiration picture....

....I added the lettering....
....and that's it.....

 I now need to make a frame for it.  But I couldn't wait to show it to you.

Tomorrow is going to be a great weather day here so I'll be out in the shop building something!  Not sure what yet, but I plan on making the most of the day.  One of these days I'll stop with the paintings, but for now it's a great way to deal with the weather issues around here.  But I have to get back to building as I have a craft fair coming up soon.  Have a great day!  Thanks for stopping by.

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