longboard contest

Posted by Stephen Quirke on April 26, 2009 under Art, en plein air, figure, painting, watercolor, watercolour | Be the First to Comment

This morning Calvin went for an earlyish surf before church.  We met Mikhail on the water who told us that we had made final of the parent-child tag contest – whoah!  So we went down this afternoon to do our thing.  I surfed like a bit of a moegoe so we didn’t get a place.  But it was quite fun and anyway I have been surfing for a year now so I was happy with what I did.  And it was sunny.  I was keen to paint today and started a new watercolour before we rushed off.  At the end of the afternoon I was so keen to paint – that I sat with my little kit and did this painting of the buzz around the contest control area.  Oh and I donated a watercolour I did of a family watching the surfers for the lucky-draw. 

Its OK I guess – I wanted to paint more of the people but a chilly wind blew up off the ocean and I was sitting in a wet wetsuit without a shirt and then they called for the prize-giving to start – so there it is.