Eric and I are going to have artwork in the Yellow Bike Project benefit party at Gallery Lombardi on the 27th. Which is great! Except I couldn't think of anything to do for it for the longest time. Which was not so great!
I had the idea that I could take pictures of myself riding my bike with the stroboscopic flash, so there'd be multiple images of me and the bike. Then I figured I'd project the best one onto a canvas, trace it out, and paint it. Except the pictures didn't really turn out that well, and also I forgot that I can't paint. Oops. At least it was fun taking the pictures.
Then I was running out of time, so I thought I'd go to my fallback idea, which was to just do a lino cut print of my bike, which in my opinion is very handsome. So I traced it out and got ready to carve. Then I looked at it again and realized how incredibly boring it was going to look. Like, Here! Here's a bike! Yep, this sure is a bike!
Argh.
Tonight I added some details to the bike and the background, and now I think it's going to be okay. Not spectacular, maybe, but respectable, and hopefully pretty cute.
Now there are only nine days left until the deadline. Eric's got just half the painting he's doing finished right now and I haven't even really finalized my idea, let alone started carving; we'd both better start making some damn bike art.
The end!