Candles!

Working on cranking out candles. Found some quotes that I think fit my thoughts on candles pretty well.

"There isn´t enough darkness in all the world to snuff out the light of one little candle." 


"Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."

Three wave set! 

Beeswax, hurricane, and multi color. Just a start. 

Dream time. 

Happy Holidays !

It's that time of the year again. Hope all of your celebrations are great. 

Starry snowman.

Playing with light

Sometimes when there's no sun you have to look for light other places.

A swirling vortex.

Speeding lines. 

Calm neons.

Winter Sunsets

It may be getting colder, and the sunsets closer to the afternoon. Remember there is still plenty of beauty to see. Crisp winter sun.

Cold winter Shilshole sunset. 

Making t-shirts

Just ccompleted a round of new t-shirts.

In honor of the city that "had 24th worst crime rate last year, and is the 4th most dangerous city on the west coast, after Richmond, Oakland, and Compton".


Silk screened and ready to wear. I have medium,large, and XL. Selling for $10 a piece. I don't have a pay pal set yet(working on it ) but shoot me a message if you're interested and we can work something out.


More shirts on the way in the future. 

Ahhh the aroma. 

Free background!

New desktop background! It's the Duke. Right click and save.

Still dreaming

 More pictures from Hawaii.

Fins and mask on the beach at Waimea bay.

Sea turtle! 

Taking a breath. 

Elizabeth getting done surfing. 

Tropical colors. 

Fire! 

The Duke. 

Tropical Dreams

 Just returned from Hawaii. Here are a few pictures (more on the way)of some of the things seen and done. All I can say is I love that place. Friends, waves, surf and sun. This morning it seemed like some kind of lucid long dream than a reality that had happened. So much so that I found most of my thoughts today to be ending about still being there with my wife, on the beach, with the warm breeze,just the sound of waves,palm trees and the taste of salt on the lips.

The real locals.

 I was sitting around one day thinking about grumpy locals you see near the ocean. Every surf spot has at least one. The guy who just can't be happy even though they live near the ocean and surf all the time. They always seem to be swearing and wearing a frown. Hating on anyone that would dare smile and have fun with the same thing they do. It got me thinking...do the animals of the ocean act this way too? I doubt it, but wouldn't it be funny. So I thought of the loudest most obnoxious sea creatures I could in the local waters here. The kind that are always making some kinda fuss. And that's what follows...The real locals. Prints will be coming up if anyone is interested.

The stinging jelly.

The squawking gull.

The barking sea lion. 

New post!

It's been a busy end of summer but I finally have some time to get some things I've been working on up here. When I haven't been racing paddleboards, surfing, or at the gym, I've been working on a bunch of design projects. Here's a few of the latest from vidlab....

A few more for a local haunt...completely reworked the logo.Started here with loose sketches..

After going through more roughs started to dive into different looks...

Then the final they liked....

Then it was time to get the poster,Facebook, passes, web banners, t-shirts, etc etc ready....

Also been doing some work for Pretzelwagen.

Back of the Pretzelwagen.

The side.

The front. 

So if you happen to see a VW van parked selling pretzels around town, make sure you stop and get one. They are delicious!! Tell em Renick sent you.

So sorry about the lack of posts...if anyone is even reading this. I've been pretty busy but will try and keep up.

Alki Races

Been a little while since I've posted lately. Busy summer. Lots of racing, lots of training. Put together this quick vid of the race at Alki. Great weather, glassy fast conditions. More posts will be on the way when things slow down a bit.  

Waves

A quick edit of a few waves from the weekend.

Paddle to Port Orchard

One of the reasons I haven't been updating this as much is the warmer weather. I won't go as far to say it's been great but it's improving. Hopefully if it keeps up we should see summer by August. Last year I had been eyeing a route that I wanted to paddle. Shilshole to Port Orchard. Seemed easy enough, just long. My first attempt at this went not as planned at all. Winds that day didn't want to cooperate in any way, blowing from the south. I was basically paddling into a 15-20 knt head wind the whole time, and fighting a little current. I made it about half way and couldn't continue. Exhausted and frustrated I had to stop. This year I wanted to try it again. So I got my  friend Sam to pilot a boat, grabbed everyone that wanted to go on the boat, and tried it once more. This time things went as planned with no winds on the way there and sunny skies. Dolphins swam by in the shipping lane, seals everywhere, friends and my wife encouraging me to hold pace, it was great. Held a 4.5 average pace. Hit around 5.5 in some spots. Got to PO in about 3hrs 15 min(give or take a few). On the way back the winds picked up and we were able to drop sails and cut the engine. Couldn't have asked for a better day. Thanks to everyone who came along! I hope you all had as much fun as I did. Big thanks to Sam for getting the boat. Thanks to Taryn for taking the pics. And special thanks to my wife for all the support and belief in all of my paddling adventures.

Flying along with Seattle in the background. 

Sweeping glass

Finish and done. 

Aliens like the water.  

Happy crew! 

Smiles and the finish. Love you wife! 

My route.