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Tour de France 2016: Stage 9 – Vielha Val d’Aran to Andorre Arcalis

Tour de France, art, Maxine Dodd

Bonjour! Stage 9 was a magical stage – for me at least – maybe less so for those riding it! I’ve always loved the Pyrenees, love it when the Tour nips over the border to Spain and Andorra is a special place for my husband and me. This visit was exceptional – a stage of two halves – extreme heat, blazing sunshine, followed by an almighty hailstorm at the close – sol y sombra and more! Both conditions provided great images to capture. In the race itself, Alberto Contador was the notable retirement (there haven’t been many thankfully), Team Sky and BMC were dominant with Chris Froome retaining Yellow and there’s a great race building for Adam Yates in second place. Dan Martin put a great bid in the rain but the stage was taken brilliantly by Tom Dumoulin. An amazing day! Here are my drawings:

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Dumoulin takes the win!
Battling hail!
Battle between Rui Costa and Majka!
Hail!
Sky and BMC
Melting heat!
A full peloton!
Dan Martin battles the rain!
Coming to the aid of our man! AG2R La Mondial
The peloton in Andorra
Cooling down!
Kings of the mountains!
Descent past the dark trees
Sky arrive

 

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Maxine Dodd Art

I’m a mixed media visual artist working in Leicestershire in the UK. I trained in Fine Art using different media including oils and acrylics, but my recent work reflects my love of drawn media, especially pen, ink, watercolour and pastels. My theme is movement – My subjects are varied from landscape, animals, musicians, dancers and sport, especially cycling. The unifying feature of all these subjects is that they are constantly changing – there is movement and energy everywhere.

7 responses to “Tour de France 2016: Stage 9 – Vielha Val d’Aran to Andorre Arcalis”

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    designsweet

    Love the one in the rain (the first one) and the lone blue guy. Really conveys wet!

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      Maxine Dodd, artist

      Thanks so much! 🙂

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