Ride a bike (coloured pencils on paper)
Bike Culture magazine: campaigning
poster/print
This gives a mere flavour of the original,
given the subtleties
of Rexel Cumberland coloured pencils and the way in which they blend
and
bounce off the white paper. It's the kind of image which governments
should
be issuing. The publisher hopes that " it will inspire readers to
spread
the message of the joy of cycling and inspire the unconverted to give
cycling
a go." There's a definite nod of the head to the inspirational Hapshash
& The Coloured Coat posters by Michael English and Nigel
Waymouth in
the psychedelic sky; also touches of art deco in the way in which the
clouds
and smoke billow into the greenery of the faux-fifties rural idyll
created
by the bow-wave of the ecstatic cyclist. As a complete contrast, my
other
'Bike Culture' piece is more expessionistic: a linocut to express the
unfettered
motion of the freewheeling cyclist on one of those rare, but splendid
days
when all hills seem to be downhill and those that aren't can be
breasted
with ease due to a following breeze. This piece was exhibited at The
Association
of Illustrators Gallery in London.
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