I really like the way this board on your sight - http://www.austinsurfboards.com/jamie2classic.html - looks. And a friend is interested in having me make them something similar.
Can you supply some pointers on how you got this particular look?
Seems like more than a random pour.
Eric J
My apologies if this has already been gone over here. If you point me in the right direction for a search - I’ll do that, but ‘Austin’ brings up 29 pages of messages…!
well, i’m not austin, but i’ve been through all this with him, so i guess i can just pass the info along…
that look is the same as the other boards that austin calls a “retro swirl”. in fact, austin even made a video showing the entire retro swirl process (different board, but the process is that same). CLICK HERE FOR THE VIDEO. on the board you picked out, the accent colors appear to be dark blue and white, and the base color is the light blue. long story made short…you just throw on the accent colors first sporadically over the board, and then fill in the rest with the base…then squeegee off the excess. it’s all in the video (and the music is great).
soulstice is just about right. one thing though. instead of just throwing the colors i have 4 cups of color for this board. Dark blue, grey blue, white and light blue. pour the colors rotating and overlapping each other. then drizzle the accents around and youre set. Hope that helps. Let me know if any thing else is not clear.
Austin S.
Thanks very much for the explanations to you both. Unfortunately I can never play the videos - there is some syntax-problem message that comes up.
It seems like a good part of the effect is a result of carefully matching colors. The combo used is all in a family and doesn’t create anything else (like using blue and yellow where you can get green highlights - or red and blue = purple). your choice of colors flows together very nicely. I’ll keep this in mind and if my friend wants something similar, I’ll do my best.
Thanks again.
EJ
Thanks Austin for that sweet vid. It looks like you have taped and papered the top of the board so that you only get the color on the rails, but how do you cut off the leftover glass without damaging the blank. Also, if you don’t mind, what do you use for the black pinline accent on the transition from the rail to the white deck. thanks
Howzit Austin, What I'm interested in is where you upload the video to so there's a link for us to view it. Seems like you do a lot of these resin swirl boards which is cool since it's almost a lost art, do you do free lap glassing? Aloha,Kokua
hey miguel,
We have a video of taping off the deck of a board so that you dont get any colored resin.
www.austinsurfboards.com/laps.wmv
Check that video out.
As for the cut my dad fabricated an aluminum tool that cuts just deep enough for 8oz volan. I will try to find some pictures of the tool this afternoon.
The pinline is a posca pen. we lay down 3 lines of 1/4 inch tape and pull up the center.
Hope that helps.
Austin S.
hey kokua,
We upload the videos to our server to our website. We do almost all of our color work in the glass. As of this weekend i am posting on my website that we do not do airbrush anymore. I will occasionally do free-laps but i would rather do cutlaps. I was talking to some of the guys at the factory i get my supplies from and showing them some boards of mine, and they were talking how they missed the good old days of pigments and big logs. The airbrusher confessed to me that free-laps and airbrush were the demise of the good days. Personally i just love the way tints and abstracts look.
Austin S.