GALLERY
1956 to 2005
1956 to 2005
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1939
"Airplane" First grade teacher Ms. Lane informs me that my first drawing--airplane--is a work of art. I'm officially, an artist. This re-creation is based on memory. |
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1956
"Seal Beach Locals" After Chuck Hasley, Jack Haley and Tim McElrath. Dedicated to Blacky August (riding the wave) My first surf culture painting. Long Beach State College. Traded to Gordie for new surfboard ($35 value-both ways). |
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1956
"Four Surfers at |
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1958
"The Surfer" My first surf block print. Carved in Haleiwa. "Surferguy" later becomes logo for card and surferart. |
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1958
"Brooks Street" Movie subtitle for '58 film SURF. |
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1959
"Malibu Lizards" A sketch for the new Surfer Magazine, released in 1960. |
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1960
"Surfer Magazine" A little art project to keep me busy for a dozen years. |
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1961
"Big Wednesday" Moving into films and Surfer magazine , my art turns toward graphics. |
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1963
"Surf Be Bop" In '64, Be Bop won the Cover Painting of TheYear, an award presented by Communication Arts (CA) Magazine. |
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1968
"Hot Curl In the mid sixties, I experimented with various applications of paint, including squeeze bottles, in a decorative treatment. |
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1975
Bay Of Islands, N.Z. One of the sketches from the 8 month trip through the Pacific. Starting fresh,my drawings became precise ,and began to move toward pointilism. |
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1976
"Pacific Wave" First painting after the Pacific trip took a year. It's an acrylic pointilist wave tribute, with a rock to slow the crowds. Hmm. Hard on the eyes! |
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1977
Maui House I built this sculptured "tree house," after the inspiration of the Pacific trip. |
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1978
"Starmaker" A mix of detail and broad strokes, as I paint my way out of pointilism and sure blindness. |
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1978
"Discovery" Continuing the "Island Dream" journey, I'm in transition toward a looser surf style, painting in oils. |
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1979
"Used Karma Lot" This is one of my favorite paintings, drawing on the easy come-easy go of surf cars, and the castaway lives in the islands, |
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1979
"Rounding Kaena Point" This is a seminal painting for me, finding broad, sweeping strokes that seem to best capture the spirit of surfing. |
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1980
"Free Forms" Sweet and soft; almost blowing away in the wind. I'm going back to oils for more of this. |
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1980
"California Dreaming" Having owned over 50 cars, they continue to find their way into my painting; this one a reminiscence, painted on Maui. |
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1982
"Surf Train" A graphic of multiple over- lays, intended to be printed on acetate. Perhaps now's the time... |
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1985
"Perfect Rights" With this painting, I feel I've caught up with my '50s casual, and learned a lot about waves, land and plant structures along the way. |
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1990
"Honolua Morning" With a bad neck, I headed for the golf course, combining images at times. |
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1998
"Island Take-Off" Aloha Shirt Starting in '96, I began designing aloha textiles, with island and surf motifs. Paintings became shirts; shirt became paintings. |
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2000
"Sunset Fifties" Textile design led me to watercolor, and it seemed that I'd found the perfect medium for surf. I traded the toxic oils for a very tricky medium. Enjoying the conceptual stage of painting, watercolors offered more. |
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2000
"Surf Wheels" More cars, more fun. The |
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2000
"Golden Age" Here's a flashback to "Seal Beach Locals." It's a great mulligan to get to repaint your old paintings. I feel this painting may be a window to my painting future. |
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2002
"Roaring Rights" The marriage of control and accidentals in this painting is a high point in my water- color. United Airlines uses the painting on the cover of their Horizons in-flight magazine. |
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2003
"Surf Fever" Saving the old stoke for posterity. Photos from the '40s to the '00s are surprisingly still printable--many of these--the building blocks of Surfer Magazine. |
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2004
"Bull In Blue" With the completion of my photo book, Surf Fever, I screen favorite images and combine with painting. They start fairly true to the subject, but soon take off into painted statements. |
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2004
"Off The Lip" The "Take-Offs" take on a abstract sculptural quality at times, almost losing their photo identity. |
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2004
"Big Surf Event" Collage' enters the scene. Now the images are surfing through a nostalgic '50s-'60s surf milieu. |
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2005
"Jaws Dimensions" I thought I'd painted waves out of scale. As my waves get bigger, surfers drop in to match. My '06 waves need to be upscaled.
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