Cycling Art

[RedheadDane]

Awesome!

 

[DominicDecoco]

Would this count?

This without the Adriatico water mark!!?

 

[rickshaw]

Home decor

Sounds like what you are looking for is "home decor" with an artistic cycling theme. Stuff to hang on the wall. As others have said, your basic options are posters, photography or real art made from bits of cycling hardware.

Lots and lots of posters. The re-production vintage ones are OK and plenty decorative. Cheap too. You can have Giclee (made up marketing word for really good ink jet print) (sp?) prints done in any size. If you want to spend the $$ search out authentic vintage poster dealers. The original stone lithographs can be truly "awesome" to use a much overused word. Good ones will retain or increase in value over the years and have actual art / collector value. Repros = strictly home decor.

Same goes for photography. The Watson stuff is fine decor, on the lines of mass produced calendar art. One of the absolute best cycling photogs is Caroline Yang who covered the 2004, 05 and 06 Tours. Check it out at http://www.carolineyang.com/. She is an artist photographer who has had cycling as her theme, as opposed to most others who are "bike guys" who do photography. The Bettini photos on cycling news are a good example, image after image of cyclists throwing their hands up at the finish line, etc etc.... yawn. I assume Yang sells her art, but you'll have to contact her from the web site.

I can't speak for the artists who happen to include cycle parts in their art.

The over-shopped photoshop stuff leaves me cold. After the initial "that's cool" reflex there's nothing left for me.

Support the arts.

 

[DominicDecoco]

 

[williamp78]

I thought maybe i should show everyone what i decided to go for in the end. I looked at loads of stuff; some really iconic images however although they were iconic and truely showed the glamour as well as the grit and emotion of cycling they had no personal relevance to me. Therefore I decided to commission a piece instead and had to decide upon an image that was iconic and yet also was relevant to me and would provoke an emotional reaction as well as looking cool.

I initially thought about getting something from the velodrome in beijing; mainly the british pursuit team or maybe wiggins solo pursuit however although some of the images would have looked good because of work i didn't actually see either event! I also considered nicole cooke's road race win but decided on something a bit more modern; the 2011 road race world championships. I love my sport and the road race, although slightly dull, had an exhilarating finish and I'm not ashamed to say i was yelling at my screen as cavendish won for team GB. In the end i went for two images; one of cav crossing the line which i'm sure will become an iconic image in british cycling and an image that reflects the work of team gb in the proceeding 250km.

The image of cav was done by a forum member called Alan Kinsey (forum name: raindog, website http://bikesandpaint.blogspot.com/) and i think it looks really cool and really modern:

http://forum.cyclingnews.com/album.php?albumid=223&pictureid=964


The image of team gb is more traditional but equally cool and the photo really doesn’t do it justice. It was done by the guy from this website http://www.veritasart.co.uk and if you really like it you can buy a print of it!

 http://forum.cyclingnews.com/album.php?albumid=223&pictureid=965

http://forum.cyclingnews.com/album.php?albumid=223&pictureid=966

Sorry but i can't seem to embed the images onto the forum but click on the links to have a look. Let me know what you think!! I know there are a few cav haters on these boards but these images point to why i love cycling; the teamwork as well as the glory.

PS Both guys take commissions!!

 

[greatking88]

Only seeing this thread now, but I had some cycling pictures completed by an artist for my new flat

Thought I'd share them;

Shot at 2012-04-24

Shot at 2012-04-24

Shot at 2012-04-24

Hope you like them!!

 

[BroDeal]

Buy one of these and hang it on your wall.

 

[greatking88]

Buy one of these and hang it on your wall.

Nice sarcasm

 

[BroDeal]

Nice sarcasm

 

[thomas199023]

That's one from Rob Ijbema: http://paintingletour.blogspot.com/
Good quality paintings and not to expensive! Plus he's a nice guy!


Or have a look at Horst Brozy, very nice but expensive!
http://www.horst-brozy.de/Downloads/Radfahren2011.pdf

 

[williamp78]

Those look pretty good but these are what i went for (i got the two of them commissioned by different people based on recommendations from this forum thread.

The image of cav was done by a forum member called Alan Kinsey (forum name: raindog, website http://bikesandpaint.blogspot.com/) and i think it looks really cool and really modern. And he takes commissions!!

The image of team gb is more traditional but equally cool and the photo really doesn’t do it justice. It was done by the guy from this website http://www.veritasart.co.uk and if you really like it you can buy a print of it!

 

[RedheadDane]

I made some art!

Attempting to portray that classical TdF scene, not so sure about the result...

A little... "poster-thingy" for the 2012 tour

 

[jamiephillips]

^ Really like that top one!

 

[RedheadDane]

Thanks...

 

[shakeshakeshake]

 

[alberto.legstrong]

Thanks...

make that 2 votes for the top one and believe me, i am not easy to please.

 

[alberto.legstrong]

Sounds like what you are looking for is "home decor" with an artistic cycling theme. Stuff to hang on the wall. As others have said, your basic options are posters, photography or real art made from bits of cycling hardware.

Lots and lots of posters. The re-production vintage ones are OK and plenty decorative. Cheap too. You can have Giclee (made up marketing word for really good ink jet print) (sp?) prints done in any size. If you want to spend the $$ search out authentic vintage poster dealers. The original stone lithographs can be truly "awesome" to use a much overused word. Good ones will retain or increase in value over the years and have actual art / collector value. Repros = strictly home decor.

Same goes for photography. The Watson stuff is fine decor, on the lines of mass produced calendar art. One of the absolute best cycling photogs is Caroline Yang who covered the 2004, 05 and 06 Tours. Check it out at http://www.carolineyang.com/. She is an artist photographer who has had cycling as her theme, as opposed to most others who are "bike guys" who do photography. The Bettini photos on cycling news are a good example, image after image of cyclists throwing their hands up at the finish line, etc etc.... yawn. I assume Yang sells her art, but you'll have to contact her from the web site.

I can't speak for the artists who happen to include cycle parts in their art.

The over-shopped photoshop stuff leaves me cold. After the initial "that's cool" reflex there's nothing left for me.

Support the arts.

The speed section has some of the best stuff of all. Great impressions. The cycling stuff that I really liked was the very 1st image of contador in front of tdf banner. I can barely stand any photo at all of a helmeted rider. That said, a photo of a peloton wearing helmets is acceptable because that's all you'll get unless it's pretty old.

Watson. Ick. Very trite.

Check out rapha's photostream on flickr.

As for wall hangings, I have lots of repro stuff easily found and extremely cheap on Ebay, great for our family room. I am in charge of decor throughout the house and I definitely get a lot of people who step back and really are amazed. (Only 1 room features cycling.) I am presently on the hunt for black and white or single tone line drawings to finish one last wall. I can look for months to find the perfect thing. When you find it, you know instantly.

 

[RedheadDane]

Dragging this one up Again.

See, I'm curently working on a little "art project". I am drawing as many riders as I can based on their nicknames.
However, I kinda need you guys' help, since I can't remember all of said nicknames. I'm only going for something that tangible (after all; how do you draw a "Wiggo"?, and I'm sticking to currently active riders on World Tour Teams.

So far I've got:

Cannonball = Cavendish
Tank (Panzerwagen) = T. Martin
Tornado = Boonen
Shark = Nibali
Cigar (That is was 'El Purito' means, right?) = Rodriguez
Pistol (El Pistolero) = Contador
Little Prince (Il Piccolo Principe) = Cunego

As well as some where I know the nickname but needs to figure out how to represent them:

Honey Badger = Navardauskas
Bull = Hoogerland
Ox = Chris Anker
(The last two is simply a matter of 'how to tell them apart?')

Did that make sense?

 

[Ad Rock]

Dragging this one up Again.

See, I'm curently working on a little "art project". I am drawing as many riders as I can based on their nicknames.
However, I kinda need you guys' help, since I can't remember all of said nicknames. I'm only going for something that tangible (after all; how do you draw a "Wiggo"?, and I'm sticking to currently active riders on World Tour Teams.

So far I've got:

Cannonball = Cavendish
Tank (Panzerwagen) = T. Martin
Tornado = Boonen
Shark = Nibali
Cigar (That is was 'El Purito' means, right?) = Rodriguez
Pistol (El Pistolero) = Contador
Little Prince (Il Piccolo Principe) = Cunego

As well as some where I know the nickname but needs to figure out how to represent them:

Honey Badger = Navardauskas
Bull = Hoogerland
Ox = Chris Anker
(The last two is simply a matter of 'how to tell them apart?')

Did that make sense?

I've never heard Cav referred to as Cannonball.... Only 'the Missle' or the 'Manx Missle'?

 

[Microchip]

This. Is. SUPER!!!!!!!!!

 

[fatsprintking]

I have a Metzinger print in my office - its nice. Early 20th century

cubism.http://www.culturaitalia.it/opencms...tml?language=en&tematica=Tipologia&selected=3

 

[RedheadDane]

I've never heard Cav referred to as Cannonball.... Only 'the Missle' or the 'Manx Missle'?

Cannonball is the one I've heard most freaquently.

 

[JimmyFingers]

Really? He's called the Manx Missile or the Manx Express here in the UK, and amongst riders his nicknames is Frodo or Hobbit. Never heard Cannonball either, maybe he's called different in different countries? Or maybe something in the translation?

 

[RedheadDane]

Well... seeing as I can Draw a cannonball (and already did) but not a missile, I'll stick with Cannonball



Anyway; any other funny nicknames?

 

[williamp78]

Well... seeing as I can Draw a cannonball (and already did) but not a missile, I'll stick with Cannonball



Anyway; any other funny nicknames?

Does Flecha not mean arrow? As in a bow and arrow?

FroomeDog
Ian Stannard is Yogi (as in yogi bear)
Cuddles for cadel evans