Lyne gets his trees

For the past six years I have worked as a lifeguard at Adelaide's oldest community pool, the Norwood Outdoor Pool. Every Wednesday my Favourite swimmer comes in to brighten up the day, Lyne. He has been swimming at the pool for over 25 years and every time I see him he asks me when I will draw him a picture of the gum trees around the pool. So finally I pulled my finger out and painted him my representation of the huge gums that shade the pool. He was delighted and said that the picture had made his year'!

My new summer stick...

Finally after months and months of waiting (my fault entirely) my new board is finished! This is the first custom board I have ever had and I absolutely love it! It is a 6"2, 19", 2 3/4" swallow tail, five fin set up, which for all you non surfers translates to a SUPER FUN & FAST RIDE!! Christened in Indo as a quad, I can confirm that this board is absolutely amazing and I had plenty of offers from locals to buy it off me.

When designing the concept I tried to kept in mind the time of year that I would be riding this board the most - late autumn through to winter. For those of you who have never surfed a South Oz winter I can tell you now...they suck...even with a super toasty premium wetsuit from Cutloose! So this is my attempt at bringing some 'warmth' to those cold clear south coast days. I have since learnt from Shark Week on Discovery that sharks are most attracted to yellow and orange...oops, my bad...let's see how that works out for me!

This custom decal took me 4 hours from concept to finished hi-res artwork. It was printed by the super efficient Surfboard Graphics http://www.surfboardgraphics.com/. The decal was cut to size and applied under the resin tint to avoid having to use another layer of glass. The black turned up a treat and 'pops' over the warm tones. Mick @Cutloose did an awesome job shaping, glassing and applying the graphics for me. One very happy customer :D