A Hot Sticks surfboard.

In the mornings I would open the padlock to the studio & see the white freshly shaped surfboard blanks Sammy Hawk had left me from the previous night of power shaping.

Hum? What am I going to airbrush on them, I really had no idea what I was going to do.

Enter a mind flash. I would see the finished painted surfboards in my mind's eye & I would get to work on them like a lunatic in a groove with tape, paint, air hoses, music blaring...occasionally taking time to talk to the girls from the bikini shop who took their breaks in my studio & the occasional pro surfer who would stop by to escape from the media & hubbub of the pro circuit.

© victor m maldonado