I've been painting mostly surfers these past ten days or so.  I plan on using these images on canvas as a sort of gallery that will hang from my camper roof down both sides of the camper

.  I'll have a total of twelve canvases to try to garner interest in my work.  I usually work from in the surf break using my Nikon D800 with a flash all contained in two waterhousings.  It gets a bit much when I go into the surf 2 to 4 times a day, especially when putting on a cold wet wetsuit.  With this new 600mm telephoto lens I'm sure that I can get some great images and not have to work my butt off as much.

Mission Bay Jetty Surfing

I shot a photograph of this surfer a couple of weeks back.  Been working on this painting using the photo as a guide for most of the day.  Spent last week in a painting class taught by Maryln Sholin up in Sonora, California.  Learned a lot to say the least and am now trying to apply the skills that I learned.  Sonora is located in the California gold country north of Yosemite.  It was great to be back in the area as I lived there for four years back in the 1980's.