This weekend I got a wild-hair to paint my surfboards. I was getting tired of looking at 3 whitish-yellow boards (getting more yellow by the day, as boards are exposed to the sun, they start to yellow) and the swell has been non-existent so it was the perfect time. I hopped on the interweb and searched for ways to paint my boards. I found a great article over at Brave Surf that detailed how to paint your board with common spray paint. and I jumped to the task. Of course I didn’t really plan it all out that well, but the results are great. I had planned on creating a nifty tutorial complete with photography, but I didn’t really do a very good job on the photography department, so the tutorial will have to wait until I do the fish board. I used my short board, the Channel Island Flyer II (which is getting long in the tooth) and my Roberts funboard as guinea pigs. It was a great experience learning how to use spray paint again. The above pic, is a drawing I made of the 5 designs I had in mind. The idea was to not get too tricky with it, but just to have fun and try not to create something too ugly.
The funboard ended up using design #1, a bunch of blue circles. it’s simple and looks super sweet
The Flyer II ended using design #2, which is a banana leaf. it looks insane. I left the bottom un-painted
and now I have 2 boards that are unmistakably mine. That’s the rub. How to give your board a personality. reminds me of decorating the grip tape on my skateboard, when I was a wee lickle shite. I have a few different ideas for the fish board which is my personal favorite, but I’m distraught a little bit. i don’t wanna get too technical with it (more variables to mess up) but I have an idea in mind, that if I could pull it off, it’d be insane. Well, we’ll have to wait and see…
they look pretty sweet, i woulda tried to do somethin more detailed but thats just me and i probly woulda stuffed up at some point, banana leaf one is definitely a winner