Postcards Remember

I am a FAN of POSTCARDS.
A few weeks ago, I decided to assess my collection and move it to nicer quarters from this old cardboard box. Regrettably, National Postcard Day(s) is not until May and I just can't wait that long to share some of the postcards that I've collected or made. Their value ranges from the aesthetic to the sentimental to the hilarious.
These are the two remaining postcards from a set I made following a spring break trip to Boston and Cape Cod. I cut and collaged photographs from the trip onto smooth white bristol, the minimalist Cowgill aesthetic. The set documented, made a memory of, the trip and served as thank-yous to friends and mentors for their generosity.

MOTOR Structures

Does it seem strange to sequence about from historic maps and architectural elevation drawings to MOTORBIKES...not to mention VINTAGE AUTOMOBILES and MUSCLE CARS? Though I am a little embarassed, I thought to broaden the lens to show the relationship between all the things that interest me and that I am compelled to draw.
I enjoy drawing the Motors series because of the parts that fit together. Admittedly, I don't really understand how they all work, but the beauty and efficiency of old cars and motorcycles (especially the motorcycles because you can see their motors on the outside) is very akin to other structural systems of which I am fond: cities, houses, rooms... In my second year of architecture school, our studio spent a week or two drawing a big V6 motor Professor Stoeckel salvaged from some old truck, I reckon. This was one of many projects in which we drew an uncoventional object using architectural conventions: plan, section, elevation, perspective. These drawings are not top-of-the-portfolio (or even near the portfolio), but they show a process and the genesis of an interest in mechanical structures and all structures because of the potential to see them in plan, section, elevation, and perspective and appreciate and begin to deduce their complexity of parts.

MOTORBIKES for sale

Dear Miss Guerin,

Thank you for your enquiry.
The MOTORBIKES postcards are FOR SALE HERE.
I've made a few minor adjustments to the images as I made test prints.
Let me assure you, they look better in real life...

KJS

A few MOTORBIKE Inspirations...

VINTAGE ADS

MOTORCYCLE STARS of the Big Screen

The Riding Machines of DAVID DeLONG
from David DeLong: Passages Organized by the Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah

MOTORBIKES

A few months of talking about drawing motorcycles and hunting images and I can now finally introduce the latest in the Vintage Vehicles Postcards series: MOTORBIKES ! Visualize Steve McQueen flying on this bike in The Great Escape...

I was overwhelmed by the abundance of cool vintage bikes, and it was no easy task to select only six to draw. I've surely left out lots of good ones. Here are some neat sources for motorcycle enthusiasts:

The Selvedge Yard

Solvang Vintage Motorcycle Museum

Vintage and Classic Bikes

Vintage Motorcycles on flickr

Newberry SC

I found this little gem of a streetscape in Newberry, South Carolina yesterday, on the drive home from a super fantastic mountain getaway. We stopped for lunch, lured by the idea of a small town diner and local fare. A banner strung over Main Street approaching downtown encouraged us to "spend our stimulus dollars in downtown Newberry." We eyed each storefront hopefully, but not one was open and most were vacant.

Treasures in the Cabinet

Carefully finding a place for my Treasures in the Cabinet.