Time to mention the final image of mine which is making it's way to Chelsea for the Kickback Custom Motorbike show on 12th and 13th December at Stamford Bridge.
This one is called Café Noir and is a nod to my own excursions into café racer builds, which I have mentioned briefly before, and this was the way my first one turned out -
Anyhow, the picture is a very simplified version of a more involved idea I had where a youngish biker couple would be shown building a bike in their loft style apartment, so that the bike was central to their existence and indeed a shared passion, and originally the notion was that there would be hints somehow that the girl would be the driving force behind the build and be the one with oily hands. But, well, it was all too complicated and didn't fit in with other things I was doing in this style so I have mothballed that concept for now and for this decided to concentrate on the bike, a BMW café racer and then litter the place with tools and garments to suggest the girl had finished working on the bike for the day.....ok, it's a bit cheeky, but you have to have a smile once in a while :-)
The other big thing for me was the colour - I definitely wanted to do this rich scheme of deep blues and blacks against the warm reds and oranges, and I think it worked really well. I hope you like it too!
Prints of this and the other ones will be available very soon by the way.
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