lots of fun new project that i'm trying my best to stay on top of. hopefully this blog will not only give people a chance to see what i'm working on as well as the process, but keep me motivated to keep posting, therefor working/producing.
living in vancouver gave me a bunch of time to draw, paint, and prepare projects that i never had the finances or time to follow through with.
i'm putting some of those "lost projects" to use and going to be printing some skateboards in the near future. the project is moving along better than i could have hoped for. i met up with randy from olive skateboards a few days ago and picked up 5 blank decks to get the project going. they're beautiful! beautiful unfinished woodgrain to them which will hopefully be key to the design.... so excited not to have to do any prep sanding!
the first painting is done, second one is on paper ready to line...
there will be 5 different skateboard i hope to have made fairly soon. 4 will be limited to between 15-25 each, the fifth will be more an open or bigger run. just need to meet up with randy to discuss printing options, and things should be moving...
i've also had the chance to make it out to the mountains twice already this year. that's already once more than last year. i went up to jasper 2 weeks ago for the day. it was beautiful, sunny, and there was snow to ride. great day.
last week, i went up to lake louise and spent the night at the hostel. i had the biggest communal room i've ever seen to myself. obviously i stayed in the loft...
another bonus to the rooms seems to be they each are named after a mountain, and have an amazing 1970's technicolor photo of said mountain. this is Mt. Hector.
i have i picture of pika peak too, maybe i'll dig it up and post it later.
more to be said about the hostel then the day on the mountain can't be good. where there was snow, i guess it was good, where there wasn't snow destroyed my board. i've never taken a chunk out right to the wood core of the board. by the end of the day at least is was snowing a ton...
no mountains this week due to board repair... just working on the skateboards.....
living in vancouver gave me a bunch of time to draw, paint, and prepare projects that i never had the finances or time to follow through with.
i'm putting some of those "lost projects" to use and going to be printing some skateboards in the near future. the project is moving along better than i could have hoped for. i met up with randy from olive skateboards a few days ago and picked up 5 blank decks to get the project going. they're beautiful! beautiful unfinished woodgrain to them which will hopefully be key to the design.... so excited not to have to do any prep sanding!
the first painting is done, second one is on paper ready to line...
there will be 5 different skateboard i hope to have made fairly soon. 4 will be limited to between 15-25 each, the fifth will be more an open or bigger run. just need to meet up with randy to discuss printing options, and things should be moving...
i've also had the chance to make it out to the mountains twice already this year. that's already once more than last year. i went up to jasper 2 weeks ago for the day. it was beautiful, sunny, and there was snow to ride. great day.
last week, i went up to lake louise and spent the night at the hostel. i had the biggest communal room i've ever seen to myself. obviously i stayed in the loft...
another bonus to the rooms seems to be they each are named after a mountain, and have an amazing 1970's technicolor photo of said mountain. this is Mt. Hector.
i have i picture of pika peak too, maybe i'll dig it up and post it later.more to be said about the hostel then the day on the mountain can't be good. where there was snow, i guess it was good, where there wasn't snow destroyed my board. i've never taken a chunk out right to the wood core of the board. by the end of the day at least is was snowing a ton...
no mountains this week due to board repair... just working on the skateboards.....
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