Dream Ride
by Todd Peterson
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17.000 x 23.000 inches
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Title
Dream Ride
Artist
Todd Peterson
Medium
Painting - Caran De Ache Neocolor Ii Crayon On #140 Paper
Description
A tribute to the "Sting Ray"
When I was eleven years old Schwinn introduced the "sting Ray" coolest set of
wheels on the planet. I had just won a 26" full dress Murray in a drawing
contest on the "Captain Ken Show" it had headlights , might have even had mud
flaps. It was red and white, with a whole lotta chrome( it was pretty) but then
the "Sting Ray came out, and it was like a Buick and a Corvette, and I thought I
was more of a Corvette kinda guy. I mean they were like sex on wheels, and I didn't even know
what sex was yet. Alas, sting ray cost $49.95 like $500 today.. family of 5
boys,Me with a brand new "pretty" bike, You got it "slim and none". but I could
dream. The other half of My tribute, is from My early, early Years, the ones You
almost can't remember. I always had this kind of hazy recollection of the
artwork from My favorite picture book. This nagged at Me for years, I finally
did some research and discovered the book was "Tenggren's Cowboys and Indians" I
hopped on E-Bay and a week later I was
curled up on the sofa with an orange Nehi and a sack of Old Dutch getting
reacquainted with Little Bear, Grubstake, Jon,Sue, Grandpa, and all the folks at
the Lazy River Ranch. Gustaf Tenggren Born in 1896 in Sweden lived to be 74
years old. Did Illustrations for popular Swedish Folk Stories in the 20's Later
He worked with Disney on background art for Pinocchio, and then as art director
for Snow White. In the 40's and 50's He Illustration for Children's books working with Golden Books.
His art work reached out to Me over a 50 year divide , that's kinda cool.
Todd Peterson
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April 16th, 2008
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