VMCC Founders Day 2014

Duzmo

(watercolour & ink)

Well this was the perfect finish to a long weekend. I was asked to pop in on the Duzmo stand at the VMCC Founders Day on my way home from Dirt Quake, to sketch my second Duzmo of the year. Two more and I would have sketched all the known Duzmo bikes in existence! This particular model was originally bought by someone who was intending to buy a couple of early Triumphs and came home with this as well as the 2 Triumphs. Tim Walker then took on the project and restored it to the condition it's in today.

For more information on the Duzmo mark either refer to Nick's amazing website or my Banbury Run Post where I first sketched a Duzmo.

 Duzmos own pre 1922 OHV engine

 I loved this speedo arrangement on the front wheel. The bike also has a front rim brake which is quite unusual.

Having been burnt out by sketching 4 meters worth of machines and loosing my ink pen in the process I decided to spend the rest of my Founders day soaking up the jumble and club stands:

Jumble and Club Stand Stuff....

Dirt Quake 3

Well SIDEBURN sure did do it again with Dirt Quake 3. 

Especially as they added in Pork Scratchings, a King with Mash Potato Crown and a Jet Turbine Pushbike into the already loony mix!

Here's my big scribble from the day and some pics....

After visiting the event for the past two instalments (Dirt Quake 1 and Dirt Quake 2), I knew full well that the event just goes crazy soon after the gates open, so with this in mind I headed down to the pits and found a viewpoint for the above panoramic sketch. I only had time to do the pencil sketch on the day so the rest was done using reference photos back in the studio.

Here's the stuff I couldn't sketch....

Mario Crash!

Unfortunately The Pie died!

Guy Martin in two extremes

After sketching this bike at the first quake I'm always happy to see Dimitri at the event...

...especially with this kind of fix.

Frank Chatokhine was pure racing entertainment on the track. 

Great to see Maxwell back on the track!

This year saw the return of our French favourites from Clutch Motorcycles dressed as Mario and Luigi!

Old Blu got baptised by blood

Rory turned up with his bike already covered in Norfolk muck!

Milo from Bell 45 looking... well a bit mucky.

The Hard Luck Tattoo boys rode all the way up there and James rode his HD and managed to make a skid mark on a plate oh and he did break his gearbox.

My looker of the weekend

Good to see a Greeves at the event

Two thumbs up for taking the Unsuitable Road Bike seriously.

A good contingent of American vehicles turned up including this lovely 30s Ford Truck

Shuttleworth Collection Visit 2014

The Shuttleworth Collection

Watercolour and Ink, 2m scroll

Planes from Left to Right: DH88 Comet, Bleriot Type XI, Schneider S.G. 38 Glider, Percival Mew Gull, Westland Lysander, AV36 "Monobloc" Glider, Comper Swift, Supermarine Spitfire, Hawker Tomtit

Details

On my way to Kings Lynn for Dirtquake on 18th July I decided to drop in to the Shuttleworth Collection. This is a museum I've been wanting to visit for a while. I visited with my latest creation the scrolling sketchbook to see if I could fill a 2m roll in the time I was there. There was too much good stuff to choose from but I hope the final piece gives you some idea of whats there.

The collection is result of Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth who raced cars and planes in the 30s. Shuttleworth won the first Grand Prix at Donnington in 1935 in a 2.9l Alpha Romeo. He also took part in the 1933 Viceroy's Cup Air Race in India in which, after obtaining his pilots licence flew his single seat Comper Swift (the plane on the right of the scroll above) and flew it all the way to the start.

At the age of 23 he inherited the Old Warden Park Estate which is where the museum is sited. Shuttleworth practised agriculture and forestry as well as the cars and aeroplanes. In 1940 whilst serving in the RAF Shuttleworth crashed his Fairey Battle whilst on a night flight, killing him outright. 

His mother turned the estate into a charitable trust after her sons death, in order to make sure the collection was used for education in science, practice of aviation and agriculture. 

Well It certainly does that, everything in the museum is a working machine, and the workshop is continually working to keep the collection running. The collection often run flying days and I was hoping that they were running one that evening but alas it was not to be.

Photos...

Sopwith F1 Camel

Detail shot of the German Schneider S.G. 38 Glider

Messershmitt ME 163B-1a Komet

 Slingsby Kirby Kite

1937 Ciltern DW.1

Aero engines...

 

Anzani "Military Model" Fan Type

Anzani Radial

JAP J.99

Armstrong Siddeley Genet II

1945 Dragon Rapide 

 Lovely Line up of Race Aeroplane models

1910 Avro Triplane 

National Motorcycle Museum and Motorcycle Film Festival

On 24th June I visited the National Motorcycle Museum to produce a large scale ink sketch for an art exhibition which celebrates the museums 30th anniversary. On that day I had no idea the short film that I made with Tom Rochester about the process, was to be selected for the Motorcycle Film Festival in New York this September! The Film will be premiered on Friday 26th at 5pm and so I don't want to put up a picture of the final piece until the festival is over. So for now I will post some teaser photos taken by Matt Bone...

I'm planning some sketching activities for my week in New York so keep checking the blog for more ink action!