Tour of Britain, Stage 2: Beside the Lake

Continuing the beautiful scenery art, the organizers route the peloton (and the break away) over the dam and around the edge of Thirlmere.  Tucked onto the back of the rather large break was Bert-Jan Lindeman (LottoNL Jumbo).  Ahead of the Dutchman was the Irish National Champion Nicolas Roche (Team Sky) who was following Conor Dunne (JLT Condor) and Loic Vliegen (BMC).  The beauty of today's course is making me ache to travel to the Highlands.  My wife's relatives would like it if we did.

This is a small watercolors and ink painting measuring just 4"x6" and was created using Yarka St. Petersburg watercolors and Steve Quiller brushes from www.richesonart.com.  This painting and all of my Olympics artwork will be available through my artist website at www.greigleach.com.  To purchase this particular painting just follow the direct link at the end of this post.

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Tour of Britain, Stage 2: Enjoying the Scenery

Today's stage took the riders through some beautiful roads in the Lake District of northern England.  While I was certainly enjoying the scenery, I am not sure that most of the peloton had time to take in the views.  However, Sir Bradley Wiggins (Team Wiggins) spent most of the day hanging out at the back of the line, so he may well have been enjoying the scenery of his supposed last road race of his career.

This is a small watercolors and ink painting measuring just 4"x6" and was created using Yarka St. Petersburg watercolors and Steve Quiller brushes from www.richesonart.com.  This painting and all of my Olympics artwork will be available through my artist website at www.greigleach.com.  To purchase this particular painting just follow the direct link at the end of this post.

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Tour of Britain, Stage 2: Losing the Arm Warmers

One of the many challenges for the riders is getting their clothing right on the day.  Even us amateurs have to balance being warm at the start of the day and not boiling by the end.  I sure wish I had a team car driving along with me to pass my extra clothes to.  Today's break was fifteen members strong, surprisingly one of the group was the race leader, Andre Greipel (Lotto Soudal).  Greipel seemed to be targeting the intermediate sprints.  It was doubtful that he would be able to keep hold of the Yellow Jersey given the three categorized climbs facing the peloton in the latter kilometers of the stage.

This is a small watercolors and ink painting measuring just 4"x6" and was created using Yarka St. Petersburg watercolors and Steve Quiller brushes from www.richesonart.com.  This painting and all of my Olympics artwork will be available through my artist website at www.greigleach.com.  To purchase this particular painting just follow the direct link at the end of this post.

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