Style Always Matters

I wanted to do a drawing to donate to the Boozer Jam, an event held every year at Sheep Hills in Costa Mesa, CA.  "Boozer" Mike Brown is a longtime Sheep Hills local to was paralyzed in a racing crash a few years ago.  He was one of the only riders to have a line named after him at Sheep.  I went looking for a photo of Brian Foster to draw, but couldn't find one that worked with my style of drawing.  But I ran across this pic of Josh Stricker at Sheep Hills laying down a stylish one hand tabletop.  I didn't have my act together, and the drawing didn't get there in time for the Jam.  Oh well... there's always next year.  Sharpies on paper, 18" X 24".

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Mike Haupt BMX at Sheep Hills

Mike Haupt was one of my roommates in one of the many BMX houses in the Huntington Beach area in the early 90's.  He was a serious BMX racer and jumper, and local at Sheep Hills.  I did this drawing of him doing one stylish X-up over one of Sheep Hills' many sets of doubles.  When I was drawing this, I toyed with the idea of listing all the top riders from Sheep Hills in the dark back of the take-off jump.  I decided against it, partly because so many great jumpers were locals at Sheep, that I figured a forget a couple of them.  So I just wrote Sheep Hills on the jump instead.  Sharpies on paper, 12" X 18".  #shadowsandsharpies