Two more watercolors from the 2013 Mavericks competition. The first watercolor exaggerates the wave quite a bit… while Mavericks can be a bit of a mutant beast, it doesn’t quite break like that when it’s that big; I was just having fun on that one!
Here is a bit of a more realistic view of the wave during the contest, with one surfer thinking about pulling under the lip and changing his mind at the last second…
Splitting the peak at Mavericks – Watercolor on Arches paper, 10″ x 14″. A view from the channel at the 2013 Mavericks contest won by Pete Mel. Two surfers split the peak, but all eyes are on a third surfer that took off deep and is making his bottom turn in the darkness of the waver right under the lip.
A watercolor study of a sunny day at Ocean Beach here in San Francisco… the waves were uncharacteristically clean and small, and the longboarding crew was out as well as a few classic cars. This is the closest to SoCal San Francisco ever gets.
Two of my favorite spots in the Basque Country -Bidart Centre and Parlamentia. Drawn and painted on a cold February day when conditions were perfectly glassy and the Parlamentia reef was alive with powerful overhead waves.
The wave at Ocean Beach -cold, powerful, messed up and hard to ignore. Still -we come back to it. Watercolor on Arches paper, 10″ x 14″
Having taking that wave so many times on the head when trying to paddle out at Ocean beach, it was a bit of a process to draw it as I see it during the big winter days -cold and unforgiving.
It’s tough to make accurate forecasts about the future, except when you focus on what’s essential. Here it is for the year ahead -2012.
