Bamboo

Silver tinted bamboo forest.

Sketches

More surfer girl sketches.

Motion Graphics

Working on some short motion graphics for work the past couple days. These will be intros or breaks....

Retro...

Microscopic.

The compression on the web stinks, sorry but these look better in person. But you get the idea.

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.

Small beauty

Sometimes the most impressive beautiful things are right under us. You just need to look differently at the world around you. Finding beauty in small folds of water....

Finished!

Finished painting. 

Free background!

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

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. 

Where have I been?

Very busy couple of months. More will be up about that in the next few days. In the mean time enjoy a free background! 

Downwinder

  For a little while now I had been looking at an Edmonds to Shilshole down wind run. Looked like a lot of fun on the map, I had no idea how much fun it would be. I waited for some sun to show, and got Shawn Jennings to go with me(after some harassing). We launched under crystal clear blue skies and mountains in the backdrop. As we launched a bald eagle flew bye just above eye level, around 25 yards away(give or take). Amazing. I've often seen these while on the water but never this close. We both headed for open water and the wind picked up at our backs. Next thing you know we were connecting bumps to the end of our route. We actually put together a few rides that were probably around 10 secs. Just flying along the top of the water. One of the best runs I've done. Can't wait for the next one! Hopefully get some more people on it! When all was said and done I saw one of the biggest sea lions I've ever seen, schools of fish, and got yelled at by a grumpy fisherman! Couldn't have been better.

This is how we roll.  

Shawn around mid paddle. 

Shawn again.

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.

Yesterdays paddle

Finally got a new racing board after saving for a good while. Tried it out the other day with Mrs.Woods and J Brown. Super fast and glides on any bump. Can't wait for some races! Big huge thanks to Stoke Harvester for helping me get the board/ Few pics from the paddle..more to come.

Elizabeth strikes a pose.

Jon chillin while Elizabeth does a sun dance.

Elizabeth paddling in the sun.

Sunsets

Just a few images from some of the sunsets going by here in the Northwest.

Loving the colors of spring! 

More Stoke!!!!

It's been a really busy past couple of weeks for me. Designing logos, editing photos, printing hoodies, getting in lifting at the gym. I'm getting much too little sleep. But things are getting done! Here are some pics of the new Stoke Harvester sweatshirts hot off the press. I've heard when you wear one of these you don't age.

Stoke!

Shawn printing like a mad man

Hot off the press!

Red!

Black