Surf Artist Blog

Welcome to the blog of COTW featured surf artist Spencer Reynolds based in Portland, Oregon. This page displays the 20 most recent posts from Spencer's blog, you can see the rest on his blog. You can also subscribe to this blog's RSS feed by clicking here:

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Spencer Reynolds... Liquid Lollies

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20 min live set by The Dead Weather

Courtney tuned me into this site called From the Basement. It’s an incredible time waster. Whatever you do, don’t click this link: Live performance of 20 min live set by The Dead Weather. This video is one example of the addictive nature of this site. Love of good music is my drug, and I was hooked [...]

1…2…4…7…Oh, I Give Up

I really love animation from the 60’s and 70’s. One day I hope to make an animated short, and it will probably be heavily influenced by this time period. I spent some formative years learning to count watching toons like this on Sesame Street. It’s fun to go back and revisit some of these old [...]

First Things First

I woke up this morning with Joy Division in my head.

Backward Living

My friend Justin and I were talking the other day, and we both felt there are three predominant emotions you have as a freelance artist or graphic designer. First is fear (if you’re in-between jobs), second is very temporary joy (at pay-day), and lastly, pressure (to get the work done yesterday!) I’ve been in the [...]

The Weekend Away

San Francisco was a great little getaway. I don’t think relaxing would be the appropriate word to describe the time though. We kind of played tourists, which is fun to a point. Many places we visited we arrived at before the great hordes of romantic young lovers, Japanese tour groups in silver reflective jackets taking [...]

A Few Days of R&R

We’re off to sunny San Francisco for a mini vacation, but we’ll be back faster than you can say, “A tutor who tooted the flute Tried to tutor two tooters to toot. Said the two to the tutor: “Is it harder to toot or To tutor two tooters to toot?” Oh, you think you smart? You finished that before we got [...]

Oh Yeah…

I have forgotten to mention that I now have original art in Surf Indian. If you’re in the Pacific Beach, California area stop in and check it out. Heck, buy a piece while your at it. They feature art-driven, small batch products that reflect an individualized approach to the art of surfing. [...]

Designer Shorts

On an earlier post I wrote about the new company Shortomatic and how they’ve taken my art and made two pairs of shorts. They’re also giving me the opportunity to make my own designs. Here is my first. I took the This Year’s Model Gorilla and added some nice textured backgrounds to accent the design. [...]

Jellyfish

Here’s a new painting I just finished and had to send off to a show on the east coast. It’s my interpretation of a jellyfish. I enjoyed painting it so much, I think I may do a series.

Limited Edition Boardshorts

A while back a new company called Shortomatic got in touch with me. They wanted to take some of my art and put it on limited edition of 200 boardshorts. I really liked the idea, and as of yesterday they have officially launched their website. They are pricier than other boardshorts, but they are limited [...]