Bike Angel was a sketch made with red and black Micron pens by Amos Lemon Burkhart in a 2016 sketchbook.

The drawing was made freehand, without a pencil sketch or layout, and was completed in about 15 minutes.

I remember watching Lemon make the sketch, which was quick and intuitive. It was around the time he was experimenting with a lot of characters that had a faintly old-timey look about them (note the knickers). He drew the bike first, then the boy (definitely a resemblance if not a straight-up self-portrait - see the same era self-portrait, Green). If I am remembering it correctly, I was with him, and at that point I said, “oh he looks like he has folded wings on his back” and Amos frowned and said, “It was supposed to be a backpack,” but then quickly drew in the two flying figures in red and wrote the title.

Posted on https://amoslemon-blog.tumblr.com/page/5 with the title “Pen sketch dump.”

This limited Edition letterpress print was made with custom mixed red and black VanSon ink on bright white 100% Legion textured paper. The plate for this print was made by Boxcar Press from a digital file of the sketch by Amos Lemon Burkhart. Two-color prints were made slowly and patiently on a vintage Vandercook SP15 press at Lead Graffiti Letterpress, hand pulled by Ray Nichols and Jill Cypher in June, 2021. The original artist monogram (ALB) is printed, and each print is numbered and signed by the printer.

ALB Limited Edition letterpress prints are exclusively available from the Amos Lemon Burkhart estate collection. 100% of all profits are donated. 50% of proceeds go to scholarships for drug and alcohol treatment for young adults at the Caron Foundation, and 50% goes to college art scholarships for students from Governor Mifflin High School and/or at Montserrat College of Art.

© Amos Lemon Burkhart Foundation 2021