31.4 miles (Drawing Only) 32.4 Miles (Full Ride) This is my first attempt at GPS art using my bike. My success was mixed. This was supposed to be a happy face, but it looks more like a scary Jack-O-Lantern! This route was very hilly and was the maiden voyage of my new winter bike, “The Black Battleship” Here are my city-sized cycling drawings made by recording my bicycle rides using my GPS. Each original drawing is some 20-60 miles in length, and takes me from 2-6 hours to ride/draw! I am a member of Washington Area Bicyclist Association and the Bike Arlington Forum. GPS recordings as a colored line on a map showing where the cyclist rode. I had an idea about how I could combine my interest in cycling and original artwork. Starting last December, I began by choosing specific routes to ride on my bike that would plot pictures when recorded. The idea behind each drawing is to find only the streets, roads, trails, parks that, when joined, make the picture. That’s not easy, and the creative process is all in the planning. Each drawing is like a giant “Etch-A-Sketch” toy because there is no lifting the drawing tool, thus each drawing requires meticulous planning and some retracing to avoid extraneous lines. Once the plan for the drawing is complete, the athleticism comes from actually cycling the route to create the GPS recording that makes the drawing.