Painting Demo Tag

up-open-drew-demoThe Hurley U.S. Open of Surfing was crazy, as usual.

When I say Crazy, I mean, tons of almost-naked girls walking around, tatted up bodies everywhere and just plain old debauchery!

But, we had one mission there, and that was to show an audience at the Sacred Craft Booth how easily you can dress up your surfboard with spray paints and paint pens.

Somehow, Drew got roped into painting flowers on girls, and after about the 4th one, I had to put a stop to it because they were lining up!  (We were thirsty, we would have been there all day….)

Girls lining up for Drew to paint on them!

Girls lining up for Drew to paint on them!

Afterwards, we gave out about 100 of our $18.00 art prints and stickers and Drew signed autographs and was interviewed by a t.v. crew.

The weather was hot, so an ice cold beer at Surfline.com’s party afterwards was greatly appreciated!

See you next year, U.S. Open!

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Interview with PERK

This one took 12 minutes to paint!

This one took 12 minutes to paint!

For more info on the event, click here

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This was a tough crowd!

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The Sacred Craft Consumer Surfboard Expo stepped it up huge for their 2nd annual event. Held on October 11 & 12, 2008 at the Wyland Exhibit Hall, a much larger venue from last year, they added more big name characters and popular shapers to their seminar list. Even surf icon Gerry Lopez showed up today!

With a stellar introduction by the surf industry’s greatly respected Sam George, Drew’s demonstration drew over 100 people again this year, and some fans came from as far as San Francisco to get themselves educated on paint pen techniques.  Planet X TV was on the scene, filming the demo.  Check out the photos here: (more…)