Tamara Keiper
12x18
Acrylic

The Keene Café holds a lot of interest in the local area. It’s a stop that looks vacant but is still in use. I wanted to do a painting of it and as I examined it from my car, something was missing; it needed some life. As I ate my lunch a motorcyclist pulled in front of the café, and then another one came. Pretty soon there were around a dozen cyclists congregating outside! This was exactly what the scene needed. Before setting up to paint I went outside to meet them. They are a group of Veterans from Bakersfield, CA called the Freedom Riders.