Sketches

More surfer girl sketches.

Sketches

Few sketches for an up coming painting. Surfer Girl....

Black and white

Color testing....

Left to enlightenment.

New 8x10 acrylic on gesso board. Cruising through a left
barrel with Buddha looking on from behind
the clouds. 

Paintings for sale

 Got a good response to the artwork on my handplanes I've been shaping. So I've decided paint waves on some gesso boards. These are all acrylic on a very smooth gesso. Details about them are below in the photos. I should have pay pal up and running very soon. Until then if you would like one, leave a comment here and I will get in touch with you. Or find me on Facebook.

Blue lip - 5x7 inches on flat gesso board. Ready to frame. SOLD! 

Sunset set - 5x7 inches on flat gesso board. Ready to frame. SOLD! 

Tube vision - 6x6 inches on mounted 3/4 thick gesso board. SOLD!

Detail of 3/4 wood frame.

Green means go

Another hand plane painted. A big green lip.

Green is good.

Detail

Looking down the line.

Painting Planes.

Running through some new hand planes. I'll have a more thorough description of how these are made, and the steps that go into them soon. For now here are a few pics of the beginning of the painting process. Starting with pencil sketching an outline, then moving into the paint. Final pics of these will be up later. 

Pencil Lip pitching

Pencil outline of a wave. 

Going left. 

Think the pencil will make the section? 

Start of painting

Color. 

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. 

Painting with light.

  I've been waiting for some sun and some clear non rainy nights when I could go practice some light painting with my camera. Wednesday and Thursday allowed me to be able to do this. Set out Wednesday and had equipment problems due to user error. Finally figured out what was going on Thursday morning, and went back Thursday night with much better results. Turns out one of the settings I had my camera on were messing with the remote timer. I Shot late into the night and here are a few of the following results. Even though Wednesday night had some frustration Thursday more than made up for it(gotta put in the work for the results right?). Can't wait to go out and do some more.

Electric man

Surf van from the future

Watercolor effect

 Had a fun time with my wife doing a photo shoot. Actually these are from a few different shoots, but I used basically the same effect on them. Wanted to get a watercolor feel. I think the two hit the spot pretty well. Then I wanted to see if the same could be done with words. That came out pretty good too.

Watercolor 1

Watercolor two

Similar effect but with words.

Painting a surfboard

A quick video on painting a surfboard to appear like wood. This was done with acrylics and a Iwata spray gun. The wood grain is kinda hard to see due to the compression of the website (lots of macroblocky goodness), but it's there.

Sketch

Ok it's been a little while and I haven't been posting. Heres a quick sketch of a goldfish I did with watercolor.....

More updates on the way.