Fin-tastic

It's been a while since I posted anything here... The day job has been really hectic of late, involving scooting back and forth across the ditch (for the uninitiated that means going to New Zealand — land of the long white cloud and the world's best ice cream). So I haven't had much time to do any drawing, let alone post about not doing any drawing.

However, good mate Azza has been busy shaping me an Old Salty model pig. I decided to go with a pretty traditional colourway, but wanted to spice up the fin. I have a couple of metres of Mambo fabric with a Reg Mombassa print that I procured from an outlet sale about 10 years ago, and have been wondering what to do with it ever since. I reckon it's been put to pretty good use here! Now I just have to decide what to do with the rest of it...

Two by Two

  

Azza and I have been talking for a while about collaborating on a board (he shapes it, I adorn it). Well, we finally put two and two together, and a couple of weeks ago I was presented with a brand spanking blue tinted quad fish. Over a quiet Friday night and Saturday morning I created what you see here. I figure that with four fins, this fish may not be as all-terrain as a 4x4 but is certainly worthy of being labelled a 2x2. I hope Azza has as much fun riding this as I had painting it.

Shapes by Aaron Frost

Here are some decals I recently made for Azza Frost. Some you may see on one of his Sea Legged boards, and some you may never see anywhere outside of this blog... but they were all fun to draw just the same.

Numero Uno

As this is my first ever post to my first ever blog, I felt it should be something profound...

But I got nothing.

So instead, here's a little drawing I did for my friend Aaron Frost who shapes boards under the monicker Sea Legged. It's the result of a particularly slow day whilst on holidays up north, and came as a welcome break from yet another game of scrabble (although I still love scrabble).