Drew Brophy - Surf Lifestyle Artist» surf expo

My Surf Art +Your Name = Cool Tees

Drew — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 06:14:41 +0000

Coastal Classics has been one of my licensees for many years. They have a great NAME-DROP T-SHIRT program where you can order as little as 48 t-shirts with my design, your logo dropped on it. It’s really a great deal and the quality is excellent!

Here’s my newest designs for 2011. There are about 50 other designs to choose from as well. They’ll be showing at Surf Expo this week, booth# 2228. To place your order, call Coastal Classics at 805-884-1025. Tell them I sent you!

Indo Board Fun House and Toy Madness at Hunter Joslins

Maria Brophy — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:57:58 +0000

After Surf Expo, we went straight to the East Coast to try to catch a little of that swell from Hurricane Bill, before driving back to California.

Hunter Joslin, inventor of The Indo Board, bought YIN AND YANG, an original Drew painting, and we said we’d deliver it and spend a night with Hunter and his better half, Georgette.

I hope Hunter doesn’t get mad for me outing him like this – but when you walk into his spacious home, you see “toys’ everywhere! As Drew put it, it looks like a bunch of teenage boys live there.

Indo boards, work out equipment, motorized trikes, artwork and gadgets. That’s what keeps Hunter so young, I think.

Triking it outside of Hunter's house

We surfed out front of Bill Bringhurst’s house in Melbourne Beach. Mark Longnecker joined us for dinner that night for some Thai and Sake.

After maybe too much sake, Drew and Hunter ran around the house wearing 3D glasses, looking at all the paintings on the walls.

The next morning, Hunter broke out the motorized trikes!

Then, we were off to the Space Station for some education, and decided to stay in Cocoa Beach that night with Longnecker so we could watch the 1:30 a.m. Space Shuttle liftoff on the beach. But that’s tomorrow’s story….

Life is Good!

3D Glasses make for better art viewing

The girls had to try it

The Proud New Owners of YIN AND YANG

Wiggs getting instruction from the Indo Board man himself

Trikes!

At Surf Expo We were Rock Stars (Killer Display = Huge Success)

Maria Brophy — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:04:46 +0000

It was a crazy busy 3 days at Surf Expo. We had 3 different events happening, and I have to admit, it was overly ambitious to commit to all that.

When we arrived, we expected the usual pain in the butt getting set up. Instead, we got absolute ROCK STAR treatment from the Surf Expo people, and it was so easy setting up.

We are grateful to Roy Turner, Vicki Vasil, Josh and the rest of Surf Expo team for making us feel like royalty. I could get used to being a Rock Star……

THRIVE AS AN ARTIST SEMINAR

When we gave our seminar (which was supposed to be 1 hour, but ended up being 2), Drew and I were both nervous at the thought of getting up on that big stage and giving our talk to a full audience. We’ve given seminars before, but this was our first power point, on a big stage with a large audience. And we did great – I feel like we just graduated to another level.

Drew’s Art Exhibit was a Show Feature, and our main purpose there was to showcase his artwork and demonstrate how Drew’s original paintings translate onto different products in action sports.

A bonus to being there: We sold a HELL OF A lot of art prints and a few originals and surfboards – more than I had anticipated.

Here are some photos of some of the stuff that went down:

Drew’s parents and his sister, Andrea, and her husband Jackie and their 2 kids drove down from Myrtle Beach to watch Wiggs for us, and that was good, because the one day we took him to the show, he wreaked havoc!

There were many interesting characters that came to see us-Jay Alders, artist from NJ, Mark Longnecker, tattoo artist from Cocoa Beach, Rhett “Maddog” McMahn, journalist, bike & surfer, Dale Sause, longtime friend, William Wallace, sculptor artist, the list goes on and on…..

It was a lot of work getting ready for this Exhibit and our seminars, but well worth it. We’ve decided, since we have to drive the Escape Camper Van back to LA from Florida, we will take our time and relax, and vacation and visit some friends along the way. So keep checking in on us – we’ll keep you posted!

Drew and Maria