Bike Shadow

"Bike Shadow", Acrylic on Panel, 5x7"

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Here's one of my bicycle painting in miniature.  I don't particularly like the bikes themselves, but I love the shadows.  They lend the image such a strong graphic quality.

I'm still hating this small size - the brush work feels so clumsy.  In the larger paintings, I do a lot of paint manipulation when the paint is wet (lifting out or scratching in patterns).  Those techniques just don't work with this size - I can't get the detail I want and it's too easy for the colors to get muddy.  I either need to get smaller/better brushes or figure out a new approach.