My love of Motorcycles might not look like it has anything to do with this painting. But you'd be misinformed. I've been mixing up different color combinations that don't resemble the natural colors and waiting for the right moment to use them. This was one of those moments. It looks like brown, but it's not brown. It's a strangely mixed color that began with blue and silver, then orange, then violet, then who knows what. What became of that developing color is what you see here, I don't have a name for the color, it's definitely a brownish-violet but looks so good when you see it in natural lighting situations. The way I mix colors is many times the result of just looking at this or that. This time it came from a viewing of the Discovery Channel TV Show called Biker Build Off. This particular episode was showing work from a company in South Dakota with designer Michael Prugh. Michael likes his motorcycles to have non-standard colors for his designs, and watching him gave me the desire to make a color that no one else has. His choice of colors mixed with silvers really gives the color a metallic feel and that's what I was going for with this painting. You can see more of his work on the
episode here you can see the color he chose
here. Open the images up and see the details that are within.
03-07-2020
22 X 16 IN
55.88 X 40.64 CM
Acrylic on Acrylic Yarn and Poly Rope on Painted Wood Chassis.
