Pebbles on the Edge

Pebbles on the Edge
Lake McDonald, 2014

Sunday, September 30, 2012

Making Little Surfboards

I've been perfecting my "shaping" technique when cutting out surfboards. I use a very sharp exacto knife and cut on the bevel, using quarter-inch thick pieces of rag foam-core and a template. Then they're sealed with medium and painted. If I seal the back first I get a nice curve reminiscent of a real sufrboard. Here are some examples:

 
The bottom and top of a new board.
 
 
 
Another view of five. These are the bottoms.
And the tops of the same five. 
 
 
Then there are six smaller ones I just finished, sort of...
tops
and bottoms.
 
 
These are fun and challenging to make. Someday, if I ever find a cheap real surfboard, or even recognizable bits of one, I'll paint on it. I have been searching...to no avail, of course.

I've also discovered that I can't upload images the old way--something about my new computer perhaps--so I have to put everything in HTML and post until I figure out what's wrong. Someone please tell me if you can see the images posted this way.

2 comments:

Melis said...

Still think you need to take them with you, lol!

Eilidh said...

Haha, Melis!