Wellen Body Surf Art Show a Success

photo Pierce Kavanagh

Skye Walker 

photo Pierce Kavanagh

photo EL

Matt Jung form Wellen put on a very cool, first I've ever I've heard of, Body Surfing Art Show at their old HQ. Complete with original artwork by the artists Skye Walker, Keiron [Seamouse] Lewis, Ciro Bicudo, Jen Peters, Anthony Faucheuxthat who work with Wellen. 

We were lucky enough to get invited to join in on the fun. For our part we brought eight handplanes to display along with a little impromptu wave sculpture I made out of scrap card board and hemp string complete with little hemp string bodysurfer. (Not pictured but added in the night by Kipp was a beer tab for an handplane.) 

Thanks to Matt from Wellen for inviting us!

Thanks to all the artists that participated in making the Art Colab models with us! If anyone wants a handplane painted up by one of them let us know.

As more pictures come in from the event we'll post them.

Clockwise from the top center:

"The Greener Blue", Resin Tint on Foam by Kipp Denslow

"The Yellow Mexi", Resin Tint on Foam by Kipp Denslow

Untitled, Acrylic on Hot Coat by Tak Aoyama

"Enjoy the Universe", Airbrush on Hot Coat by Peter St. Pierre

"Tinny Bubbles", Pencil on Foam and Resin Tint by Ed Lewis and Kipp Denslow  

"The Crabby Trilobite", Posca Pen on Hot Coat by JP St. Pierre

"Orange Iket", Acrylic on Hot Coat by Susan WickStrand

"The Harder They Come", Acrylic on Hot Coat by Jeremy Farson. 

Center: 

Untitled, Cardboard and Hemp String by Ed Lewis

photo EL

photo Pierce Kavanagh

photo Pierce Kavanagh

Reception for "The Big Group Show" tonight Sat. Nov 6th 5-8pm

Opening Reception

This Saturday, Nov 6 · 5-8pm

featuring work by: Jay Alders, Meredith Ambruso, Matt Beard, Big Toe, Esteban Bojorquez, Drew Brophy, Candy, Ron Croci, John Culqui, Norm Daniels, Danica Elbertse, James Finch, Damian Fulton, Roy Gonzalez, John Holm, JP St. Pierre, Calvin Knott, Wade Koniakowsky, Rick Rietveld, Heather Ritts, Phil Roberts, Kevin Roche, Blakeney Sanford, Joshua Serafin, Kevin Short, Tyler Warren, Alex Weinstein, Susan Wickstrand, Jeff Yeomans

Surfy Surfy's JP St. Pierre was asked to display his Mr. Squidy handplane collaboration we did together at The Group Show put on by the Surfing Heritage Foundation. This is JP's first art show and technically mine and Kipp's as well! Congratulations JP and Kipp good jobs guys! Barry at Surfing Heritage is a huge fan of our handplanes and we will be doing more with them later. You'll also be seeing more of JP's art on our handplanes. If you want your own Mr. Squidy contact us and we'll hook you up.

South Coast Plaza West (formerly Crystal Court)

Mon-Fri 10AM-9PM · Sat 10AM-8PM · Sun 11AM-6:30PM 

3333 Bear St., ste 303, Costa Mesa, CA 92626

714.800.1654

www.surfingheritage.org

Dumpster Dive'n

Last night while at Surfy Surfy JP told me that he got word that a dumpster at a storage unit in Solana Beach was filled with busted boards. Apparently the owner of these boards was moving and had to do something with them fast. With only the information of it being somewhere in Solana I took off last night to locate them only to be skunked. This morning I did a bit more poking around and stumbled upon the score!  4.5 boards of old foam goodness. Life is good my friends. Life is good. 

Next time, before you throw your broken boards in the trash and make me search all over town and rummage through the trash, please, contact me. I'll gladly take them off your hands. 

Thanks JP for the tip. We will make some mighty fine handplanes out them.

Surfy Surfy Handplane

If you get a chance stop by Surfy Surfy to check out JP's St. Pierre's handplane we did together. Designed and painted by JP, shaped by me and glassed by Kipp. This thing is so cool. I had no idea JP had such a talent for drawing. JP really wanted to make a handplane that looked like the Bonzer Bumble Bee so we made this little beauty with a diamond tail. 

This one is not for sale as he liked it so much he kept it for him himself. However we are making more and if you want one just let us know and JP will paint it up for you.