Mimi Torchia Boothby

Category: bicycling

  • Katrina in Blue

    It’s still early in the day, no one else is about; so you leave your bike up against the brick wall across from the bistro where you just want to run in and get an espresso. I have been having fun painting Katrina with various backgrounds; I love bricks, bikes, flowers, and cats. Hopefully you…

  • RAMROD – 2009

    RAMROD stands for Ride Around Mount Rainier in one day. It is the Pacific Northwest’s premiere one-day hardcore cycling event. It combines the incomparable scenery of Mount Rainier National Park with a challenging course featuring 10,000 feet of climbing over 152 miles. It is THE ride to finish, it gives you bragging rights forever. My…

  • Lookout point

    Occasionally I paint a real place. This is a lookout near the highest point in Jefferson Park, on Beacon Hill in Seattle. This is the perfect place to park your bike so that you can look out behind it and see the skyline or the sunset, whichever is more illuminated at the moment. This is…

  • Bike Date #2

    Our cycling couple has made it to yet another old bistro, time for a little break and maybe a snack. This is the 3rd of a series of bike paintings. I’ve wanted to capture the grace of a bicycle for quite some time and I feel like I’ve finally done it. This 11 x 15″…

  • Bike Date

    What could be more fun than  a nice bike ride with your sweetie to a nice restaurant and then back? Nothing makes your appetite keener than a good ride and with no better company. I am having fun with these bike paintings.  Prints of this painting are available here.