Motorcycle Art

The great Ian Cater



Really knows his way around a brush



And his way around a motorcycle. Cafe Racers and the Ace Cafe. Go find him on twitter - @MotorcycleArtUk - I think - as I don't do social media very well

 

Agreed, a great way to store a memory. Fantastic idea.

 

Of course, another who has great skill in picking a scene is Tom Fritz. Believe me it's really difficult to block out paintings like this



Lots of Harleys but all sorts



His hot rods and racers are stunning



Lots to look at https://www.fritzart.com/

 

William Fisk, not the 18thC RA one who painted portraits, but the one from Toronto, Canada who paints photorealistic stuff. He does all sorts but his motorcycle studies are wonderful. Oil painted, clever. I like his 'neatness' with everything.



Find his, not so much, stuff at http://www.williamfisk.ca/motorcycles



Oooops silly arse

 

This is Daniel Simon - he plays with the big boys. I look at but don't normally write home about digital art. But his 3D designs are really out of this world.
Remember these guys



Yep, Oblivion, Tron etc etc. But back in 2007 he brought out a book called Cosmic Motors. A quite amazing display of his imagination and skills both in 3D art and photography, real girls were integrated with his designs, both were well....the detailing is astounding.



He invented a bike called the Detonator - a brutal V8 6.0 litre street cruiser.





Worth looking out for his books and a scan down his Facebook thingy
https://en-gb.facebook.com/cosmicmotors/

This was his Christmas Card

 

Canadian Don MacMillan's warm acrylics. Some of the paintings are quite large each produced from several photos.





Hard to find anything about this man these days but well worth searching
https://www.gvhs.ca/digital/lowdown/profiles/display.php?row=0&search=177

 

This is the amazing Kenji Shibata.
He did a motorcycle logo for one of his pictures at college and really wasn't interested in motorcycles. Once looking at an actual race machine, to complete the project, he was hooked. Being introduced to a leading Japanese race team's bikes....well he's being doing his art of iconic Japanese racers (even cars) ever since





We all need one of these on the wall



And here he is at work

 

Going away from photorealism and to climb into ye olde Kustom Kulture.
I couldn't really not direct you to the Big Daddy - Ed Roth



He broke ground with his art in the 60s. It wasn't too dissimilar to today's anti whatever demos, here's him teaming up with Dave Mann and selling posters through Custom Bike magazine showing a bit of politics, tut tut



He's well known for his art, custom builds and the iconic Rat Fink. I've been asked to paint his designs on all sorts even including Pilot's Helmets





He sort of covered every make of vehicle due to the popular demand but it shows the feeling around triumphs of the day



Here he is again on Mike Vils' Triumph called "Brute" (The colour scheme not too dissimilar to me old A75 chop)



Go have a look, Dude, cause his art is still cool, cosmic Brother https://www.ratfink.com/

 

This is Martin Squires who produces 'sketches' for magazine articles and also for concept work for commissioned builds at Old Empire Motorcycles.



He does what's called a scrolling sketchbook as shown on the short film The Museum by Tom Rochester when he visits the National Motorcycle Museum.



Lots of prints available on his site sketchbooktravels.com



He also produces cut-away drawings and lots of stuff on his facebook whatsit, go give it a look

 

This is Pascal Servies (the e has a little slope over it) from France.
1950 Speed twin:



He again, uses the motorcycles as the main theme and allows them to tell their own story. Lovely soft, warm paintings full of patina. I love these. Just look at this old 1929 BSA Sloper:



He has loads of these for sale, even has HDs.
https://www.artmajeur.com/en/xnevada61/artworks
What about a Brough Superior: