airbrush grafix

This year the annual Papa Joe Memorial Ride will be held on Saturday, May 28th, 2011. Registration is at 9 am (with Tim Horton’s Coffee and donuts) at Metro (Supermarkets’) parking lot, 390 Lakeshore Drive, North Bay, Ontario. For more info, check out Papa Joe's blog.

the need

Back in the spring of 1999, Don Lefebvre (one of Papa Joe Lefebvre’s nine children) approached me to airbrush a sign, for the annual bike run.

the fix

Sign for Papa Joe Annual Bike Ride

the portrait

To see a larger version of this airbrushing, please click on it. The sign was painted on a 4 ft. x 6 ft white board. Don provided me with a beautiful pencil portrait of Papa Joe sketched by another artist (I'm not sure what the original artist’s name was … unfortunately), that I used for reference. To reflect Papa Joe Lefebvre’s passion for Harley Davidson Motorcycles, I also incorporated the Harley logo "fascimile" (with Papa Joe’s "stats" on it).

The work was done at Joe Lefebvre’s (Papa Joe’s youngest son’s) garage and is still displayed every year (to my knowledge) at the annual bike run.