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Did you work with Bill Stewart?

I’ve been working at his shop since 2002. Bill still paints a few- mostly surf scene murals.

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That Stewart board is an interesting shape too, with the fluted wings

That’s Bill’s new 5 fin creation. I’ve been suprised on the positive response that design has received. The’ve been selling like crazy.

BTW have you ever heard of Jack Meyers. Sadly he passed away about 2 years or so ago.

He was one of the most talented and fastest freehand airbrusher I’ve ever seen. He did a lot of work for OP in the early 80’s.


Hey Atom,

Thats a solid stint with Bill then. The funny thing is, I met him one time. I was 16 when he did a stint at “Watercooled” where I started out as ding-boy in Torquay. Bill had the modern longboard thing going kinda early, and he used a chined rail. If I remember correctly, he’s a biggish fella , and had a moustache at the time…

Anyway, no I had’nt heard of Jack Meyers…he definately has a place on the role-call of sprayers. I’m going to assemble what pics I can by the few airbrush supremos I know…

Josh

www.joshdowlingshape.com

Chip already put heaps of nice pics in “Lets see some artwork…” but,

Here’s my rolecall.

Jim Davidson

Al Dove

Martyn Worthington

Couple more later…

Josh

www.joshdowlingshape.com



OK Speed…you win!

There’s no point in even trying anymore! I quit!

Just kidding! LOL

Great work! Something to aspire to that’s for sure.

Anyone done stuff like this, it’s not airbrush but I love it because it is easy, cheap, and it just looks cool on small boards like this.

does anyone know what this type of artwork is called - ive been calling it an acid wash but i know that is not the actual name for it?!

picture fell off… oops

I don’t know what it’s called, but I’d like to know how to do it.

I have an idea in my head how its done, but I’d like to hear it from somebody that has done it.

I don’t know what it’s called either. I call it marble-ing. It looks cool if you do it in a graphic then pull the tape and pin with posca.

Todd- sorry, I saw your post after I posted mine. What you do is spray a base then squirt dish soap on the board in a random pattern then use a different color of spray paint on top, rinse and the areas under the soap will be exposed.

josh no not mine done in an air brush comp seems to me you should have been there

great to here you got pleanty work happy new year

Yeah great work!

I want her for Xmas!

heres a cple more all auto acrillycs

lets see more guys i love it



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Todd- sorry, I saw your post after I posted mine. What you do is spray a base then squirt dish soap on the board in a random pattern then use a different color of spray paint on top, rinse and the areas under the soap will be exposed.

exactly, if you get into it good try doing multiple layers and just repeat the method with the dish soap - you can also outline the white (or color) areas and it looks pretty sweet. If I charged by the hour then i would have broke the bank with this one. sorry for the crappy quality pic.

I’ve done something similar to that on EPS by using clear acrylic medium randomly sloshed on with a torn off piece of foam rubber. I then sprayed over the area with some color and squeeggee’d it off.

I hate you

HA! Just extreeeeeeeeeeemly jealous!

You on the other hand… I reeeeeeeeaaaaaly hate!

Just kidding!

You guys friggin ROCK!

SynergyTodd and I just closed a deal…The Blue/Purple/Red flame job now belongs to Todd. Looks like a Win Win deal !!!

The first spray job that Speedneedle posted is taped to the wall in my shop. Time to work on some free hand stuff

Thank you to everyone for all the good vibes!

Never say Never…You Can Do It !!!

Ray

Hi Huie,

Those sprays you posted, the girlies are nice, all sweet, coy and demure…

I prefer mine more like this -

(This customer’s girlfriend did’nt like that board very much…)

Anyway, indeed, Happy New Year.

Josh

www.joshdowlingshape.com

Here are some goodies from the Bob Cooper Factory in Coff’s Harbour. (Not sure who the sprayer is…)

Have a good look at those shapes, whats going on there is a bit interesting!

Josh

www.joshdowlingshape.com

josh i meant that those pics were from an air brushing contest&all the air brushers were not from the surf ind.

surely a cple a guys from the ind. should have got an invite martin still doin a few is he.

    i called in to see bob the other day but he was not home

i here he is going back to coffs