Hey Huie,
Yes, I figured that from what you wrote about an airbrush contest…
Nobody in the industry has the time or is paid enough to work on surfboards with that degree of detail.
The roll-call continued.
Drew Brophy.
Peter St. Pierre
Christian Chapman…
Alas, no pics…
Josh
Hi Mike,
I agree with you in part. I’m not a master on painting boards, but I knew some good guys along my career that used to draw directly on the foam. They generally used 6B pencils and had a very smoth hand for drawing. In addition, they generally covered the pencils marks with black ink, be as pinlines or as handmade contours. Sometimes, blades can leave more marks than a pencil, depending on the artist’s hand.
Yes Jeff, its a matter of drawing very lightly and blowing the pencil lines with a nozzle to remove the darkest lines.
When we went “Tribal” , in the early nineties again…
Josh
Howzit speedneedle, Just noticed those boards are Bear’s. A Do you make them? Do you know the story behind how Bill Hamilton lost the rights to build them? Aloha,Kokua
Hey Kokua,
Man, I’m afraid I can’t tell you much. It was 10 years ago. I’m only aware that the proprietor paid a fee for the use of the label. To who I don’t know. I am also not aware if there is or was any connection with Bill Hamilton. Sorry, not really any good goss there.
At Bear I did sprays and gloss coats. I had a lot of laughs with those guys and had a hand in the production of some super-nice boards by Paul Hutchinson, Ronnie Woodward, Brett Munro, Phil Myers and Bushman, under contract.
The oddest thing was, I sprayed one of those sunset murals there, and the laminator swore he was having flashbacks! Turns out he had glassed Hot Buttered boards with the Worthington art in the 70’s!
Josh
thats a twat’’ haaaaaa’’
Hey Huie,
No, its a sweet coy and demure young lady modelling her…stockings…
Bit rude is’nt it…
Josh
Couple more Bears…
And this one, continuing the big wide open hole theme, for “God” himself, Nat Young…
Josh
Howzit speedie, I think Bill lost the rights in 91’ and one of the people who Milius gave the rights to was Randy Rarick. I must say as one airbrusher to another you do really nice work. One design I want to do some day is a metal planking design with parts of the planking peeling off with rust spots and rivets. My mom was a potrait artist and I always knew there was art in my soul but it wasn’t till I started doind tape offs and taped sprays that I found my niche. Aloha,Kokua
Hey Kokua…my mum was an Art teacher. I had access to any kind of stuff to make things with from the earliest age.
Anyway, assorted goodness…
This twinfin is one of my all-time favourites, for the ride and the look…
Josh
If your ever in California please come to our shop and spray some boards!
Your work is over the top!
Hey Surfding…
I don’t get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day …
“Over the top” is mu middle name!
Josh
Howzit speedy, I never had any proper art education and my free hand art is terrible. I used to laugh when I tried doing faces since they all turned out looking like a greek god or something, my mom was fantastic at portraits. When it came to working with tape offs that's when the light came on really bright and I found my ability. Aloha,Kokua
Wow, some amazing stuff on display…
I have this lovely little 0.5mm tip spray gun, that I’m slowly learning how to use.
I gather it is as small as you get before the transition to air brushes.
Tape-offs are all I dare bungle my way through at the moment, and simple ones at that.
Are there any good threads on spraying techniques (i’m sure there are), or would anyone like to run some tutorials?
Kit
plenty on you tube, freehand flames are easy. rivets and true fire
alot of freehand airbrushers use a projector