"The Kiss"

Here is the latest surfboard I am working on. It's about halfway done and is a somewhat modern take on the ancient stories of fishermen being lured and seduced by sirens. I've painted a weathered old-growth redwood finish on the top and bottom.

It's titled "The Kiss," and will eventually be the wine label for a pink bubbly at Kelsey See Canyon Vineyards. This awesome 70's singlefin shape was created and glassed by Greg Webster.

Make sure to swing by Open Studios in October to see the finished product in person!

After almost a year of work (off and on), here is the finished painting. It is based off of a photo taken by Joe Quigg back in 1949. I was initially attracted to this image because the woman in yellow resembles my mother. When my mother was a teenager, she and her sisters worked on the beach every day, renting surfboards and canvas mats for my Grandfather's surfrider rental stand under the pier in Avila Beach. My mother told me many stories about this era and this painting is my interpretation of these times.

I will have giclées, prints and cards available very soon.

It's funny how I have been painting this scene off and on for a year, and I just noticed that there is a guy playing washtub bass. I keep finding new things in this painting...one could look at it for quite a long time and find something different each time.

Arrrgh!

More detail added...

Beach Party San Onofre

This painting I am currently working on is from a photo taken in the late 40's. There are so many things going on in this image, that the more I look at it, the more I see. Will it take me forever to complete? Quite possibly.

A bit of Blasphemy, a lot of Awesome

Here is the completed hand-painted surfboard "The Creation of the Surf Bum"

It's a 5'4 hand shaped board by Jeff Malmen with a gloss polish over the artwork. It can be surfed or hung on the wall.

Jeff and I art donating this board to Surfrider Foundation, which works so hard to keep our water clean; a very worthy cause.