Gallery
Backwards & Forwards TdFF25-24
First, I have to talk about the fan in front of her hedge on the side of the road. She represents something I have never done before in thirteen years of painting bike races. Without realizing I was doing this, this painting is from the exact same spot on course as the painting prior. It wasn't until I was drawing the fan shielding her eyes that I realized it was the same person. Then I worked on the same stonewall topped by the same hedge.
Okay, now on to the title. Marion Brunel (Visma-Lease a Bike) was coming back to the peloton through the race caravan (chasing the Lidl-Trek team car) as the Czechian champion Kristyna Burlova (Ceratizit) was drifting back pressured by the pace of the peloton chasing the breakaway.