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Surf and ocean art
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That's the prerogative of the artist. Combining, emphasizing, exaggerating as you like or see fit. ;-)Your friend is engaging is some artistic idealization. Reality- 1 foot unrideable slop. Art- point break peelers!View attachment 102871
on this note....someone shold tur a gutback or a pathetic head dip into some high brow art. i coudl star.
This guy is my favorite. He used to do a LOT more waves, but everything he does, including his music (toxic freedom) was practically scripture-like for me at one time.
RWharton, the Art Pimp www.rwharton.illequipped.com
RWharton, the Art Pimp www.rwharton.illequipped.com
I see that this photo is from the magazine page but I haven't been able to find it on there...must be an accompanying article?Your friend is engaging is some artistic idealization. Reality- 1 foot unrideable slop. Art- point break peelers!
Whoa! Instant flashback to the early 1960's for me after arriving in California from Hawaii and surfing Santa Monica and Pacific Ocean Park Piers.
Made me Smile!
It was from the link he posted- https://mattbeardart.com/artwork/painting-the-california-coast-volume-one/
Ok. One more, then i want to make another...
Hehe, sorry. Couldn't resist... go-pro still of a friend just before he tried to duck but got hammered instead ;-)
Was just curious where you were.
I was staying in Den Haag for 6 weeks back in mid 80's and that was the beach we would go to.
I remember seeing some decent surf there occasionally not to mention quite a few pretty girls that preferred to lay out without a bikini top.
Really loved the Netherlands more than any other country in Western Europe.
Very nice Country and nice people. At least that was my experience in the short while I was there.
Ah, got you. I sometimes surf Scheveningen but mostly end up a bit further S. Schevening is indeed one of the dutch premier spots, as far as dutch premier spots go (we lack an ocean and have to make do with a shallow sea ;-) ). I live on the southern outskirts of Rotterdam so that's why I end up somewhere else mostly. Moreover, surf has exploded here, despite the mediocre conditions, and Scheef has gone ballistic with bus loads of kooks and a bunch localist wannabe's.
Haha, topless sun bathing... was a thing when I grew up but is nowadays not done anymore. Weird, sad but true.
This one is pretty cool, I think. Painted it last week.
50 x 70cm acrylics on canvas
Photo ref by Sean Gravem
50 x 70cm acrylics on canvas
Photo ref by Sean Gravem
... and one from sunday. This one's a bit looser.
30 x 40cm oil on canvas
Photo ref by Collin Dewell
30 x 40cm oil on canvas
Photo ref by Collin Dewell
John Kaelin - Shop (fineartamerica.com)
Order a shower curtain 6' x 6' of any of these historic big waves, for less than $90 and stretch it out on your wall. It is hard to appreciate how big some waves actually are based on a small picture. The bigger the picture is the easier it is to understand the scale.
Mavericks 2001 Shower Curtain for Sale by John Kaelin (fineartamerica.com)
Carlos Burle at Mavs on "100' Wednesday on one of the last waves ridden that day. Shawn Alladio and Jonathon Cahill were the last ones in the water. They drive their jet skis at top speed directly into a set of 5 or 7 waves over 100 feet tall!! If you are going 50mph straight at a wave moving towards you at 25mph, that is a closing speed of 75mph!! When you hit the crest do you fly off the back of the wave, fall 50 feet down, and land in the trough of the next 100 footer??
"Hitting that wave face felt exactly like hitting a steep hill climb on a motocross bike," Cahill said. "But the wave itself was moving so fast, it seemed like we were being thrown backward at the same time we were going up and up. The key was to let off on the throttle at the top. Otherwise you could overshoot right off the back of the wave and fall too far, land with too much impact way out in the next trough. You had to think about not landing nose down, or tail down, but just right."
"We free-fell for about 50 feet before we landed on the back slope of the wave," Alladio said. "And those machines weigh about 900 pounds, so I went deep, down into the water almost up to my elbows. And that was the moment when I felt a little shot of panic."
DESPERATE RACE FOR SURVIVAL / RIDING FOR THEIR LIVES: Two water safety patrollers on Jet Skis at Maverick's reef turned around to see deadly 100-foot waves crashing toward them. They had just seconds to figure out how to stay alive. (sfgate.com)
Peter Mel at Mavs 10-28-1999:
Mavericks 1999 Shower Curtain for Sale by John Kaelin (fineartamerica.com)
My work has been for sale on Fine Art America for 4 years and I only earned a grand total of about $26 from the sale of one metal print of Laird at Teahupoo in Aug 2000 and a coffee mug. I hope you all can do better than that. Anyhow I'm comfortably retired and I don't need the money.
Order a shower curtain 6' x 6' of any of these historic big waves, for less than $90 and stretch it out on your wall. It is hard to appreciate how big some waves actually are based on a small picture. The bigger the picture is the easier it is to understand the scale.
Mavericks 2001 Shower Curtain for Sale by John Kaelin (fineartamerica.com)
Carlos Burle at Mavs on "100' Wednesday on one of the last waves ridden that day. Shawn Alladio and Jonathon Cahill were the last ones in the water. They drive their jet skis at top speed directly into a set of 5 or 7 waves over 100 feet tall!! If you are going 50mph straight at a wave moving towards you at 25mph, that is a closing speed of 75mph!! When you hit the crest do you fly off the back of the wave, fall 50 feet down, and land in the trough of the next 100 footer??
"Hitting that wave face felt exactly like hitting a steep hill climb on a motocross bike," Cahill said. "But the wave itself was moving so fast, it seemed like we were being thrown backward at the same time we were going up and up. The key was to let off on the throttle at the top. Otherwise you could overshoot right off the back of the wave and fall too far, land with too much impact way out in the next trough. You had to think about not landing nose down, or tail down, but just right."
"We free-fell for about 50 feet before we landed on the back slope of the wave," Alladio said. "And those machines weigh about 900 pounds, so I went deep, down into the water almost up to my elbows. And that was the moment when I felt a little shot of panic."
DESPERATE RACE FOR SURVIVAL / RIDING FOR THEIR LIVES: Two water safety patrollers on Jet Skis at Maverick's reef turned around to see deadly 100-foot waves crashing toward them. They had just seconds to figure out how to stay alive. (sfgate.com)
Peter Mel at Mavs 10-28-1999:
Mavericks 1999 Shower Curtain for Sale by John Kaelin (fineartamerica.com)
My work has been for sale on Fine Art America for 4 years and I only earned a grand total of about $26 from the sale of one metal print of Laird at Teahupoo in Aug 2000 and a coffee mug. I hope you all can do better than that. Anyhow I'm comfortably retired and I don't need the money.
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Shorebreak madness
24 x 30cm oils.
Fun, quick and in oils! Ha! Whodathunk?
@jtvision thanks for allowing me to use your photo as a reference.
Love to hear what you think of this one!
24 x 30cm oils.
Fun, quick and in oils! Ha! Whodathunk?
@jtvision thanks for allowing me to use your photo as a reference.
Love to hear what you think of this one!