KING OF DIRTPhotorealist painting of TJ Lavin

Painted: 2001.
Materials: Acrylic on MDF board.
Availability: For sale $1000.
The story behind King of Dirt
By copying a photograph, his ability to render scenes that would otherwise be almost impossible accurately, and allows him to have an enormous range of subject matter. This photograph appeared in Ride BMX magazine and instantly had appealed to Bert as an image that he just had to paint. It wasn’t easy – he had to reduce the wide-angle lens distortion because it was, for his mind, too obviously ‘photographic.’ So he used Photoshop to alter this before he recreated the image on the MDF board in a pencil drawing.
This painting is all about the joy of riding a BMX bike. Thankfully it captures an incredible moment in time. TJ Lavin was one of the earliest superstars of BMX dirt jumping. He had an astonishing range of tricks. At the time of this contest (circa 2000), very few riders were capable of pulling off such difficult backflip variations.
Source image: Ride BMX – October 2000
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