Cyclists, Chipping Sodbury High Street

Chipping Sodbury, England, 22" x 15".

Fresh after doing a recent painting of a Spanish town with some cyclists, I decided to repeat again in a scene more local to me.  The key thing I think with a bicycle is getting the proportions of the shapes right - the frame and figure above it, the equal sized wheels of course and their distance apart.  The whole bicycle length is about 2.5 wheel diameters.  And the cyclist legs are just a blur because they're in motion.  The scene is based on a row of houses around the old Grapes pub.

 

Comments

[Doug Elliot]

Nice one Tim, I like the contrast between the blocky background and the delicate cycles.

[Tim Wilmot]

Thank you very much Doug !