Monday, May 13, 2013
Saturday, May 11, 2013
The Art Gallery of Ontario has requested an extension of OSF's popular skateboard art installation for Youth Arts Week, now on into June in the Weston Family Learning Centre!
OSF Crew pose in front their AGO display with Rt. Hon. Michelle Jean
BAP Board
Hi, I’m 18. The art that I do is digital art. My two most favourite things in the world are anime and hip hop. This is my first semester at OSF and I like the idea of using different mediums to create art.
On my first skateboard is a tribute to the Korean artist called Zelo. He’s a singing artist. He’s my favourite artist and he’s from the band B.A.P. I picked him for my board because he is really big inspiration for me, in terms of how he looks at things, his style and his music.
My inspiration was realism and a technique for putting images in greyscale and then using a filter on Photoshop that really contrasts the image. The first step was to photofilter the image, and then I printed it out on a piece of paper to fit it to the board, and then cut out the image. I used carbon paper to trace out the image. The first layer was the white of his face, and then I repeated the previous steps for all the additional layers. In the end I used gloss to finish the board. The board relies on value, colour (the pink in his hair) and line to create the shading and streaking effects.
I am trying to communicate my passion for music with this board. This is a board for myself, so it has a lot of meaning for me. I really enjoyed the experience of making my first board and learning how to do realism in a different style that I can also use in the future.
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Thursday, May 2, 2013
Playing in the sand...
My board is made from 7 plys of Canadian maple. We carefully glued and placed the veneers together pressing them with a vacuum sealed bag. After a day of drying it was ready to be shaped and sanded down to a nice smooth pintail shape.
For the design, at first I really didn't know what I was going to put on my first deck that is going to be shredded by me. So I thought hey, why not put me on it! I kind of went outside the box with this one. I started off thinking I would put my shirt, shorts and face on it so when I held it up it looks like you're looking through a crazier universe than we already live in.
To start my design, I taped up my board with some green tape, drew the first layer which is usually the background. I decided not to put a background… Why, you may ask? Well its simply cause I liked the wood grain much better. So the first layer was my shirt. I taped it up, drew on how my shirt was going to look then took a stencil cutter and cut out everything I drew. I put layer after layer of hard work. Every time I went to spray on a layer, another idea hit me. So I really just went with the flow with this one. It was the perfect opportunity for me to really express myself differently on a skateboard. A lot of time, hard work, tape and spray paint was used for this.
As for the near future.. I just really want to get nollie inward heel flips on lockdown. Until then I'll just be playing in the sand.
Chico SK8 Co.
The process of making a board is always dope. First you have to start off with the individual veneers which are individual plys of maple wood. I layered the veneers on top of each other in this order: 2 long grain plies, one cross, another long, one more cross, and 2 more longs. We do this order to give it strength and durability. Directly after that you have to put it in the vacuum sealed bag and pump out all the air using a wine pump; the Roarockit bag applies around 3000 pounds of pressure per square inch! I had to leave the board in the bag for 24 hours to let the glue dry. Once the glue dries and the press was complete, I scraped down the edges to make the board even and get rid of glue. After the scraping comes sanding, with an 80 grit, the roughest of the batch, to take off all the missed edges and bumps. I then moved on to a sanding belt to round the edges and then to 100 grit sandpaper and so on to 220. Once that is complete you have yourself a nice smooth wood finish. After this process I then designed a template and painted my board completely white. I then finished the flag colors and went on to the graphic for the center of the flag. I then drew up a design, put it straight on the board, covered it with frisket (which is a type of transparent sticker paper) and then cut out the design with a knife. After the board was finished and painted I had one last step of putting a thick layer of clear coat on it to give it a nice shine finish.
I am pretty psyched with the way my board turned out. Being my first board, I knew I could have had a lot more mistakes but I kept them down to a minimum. I really liked working with the frisket because it gives you can see through it to what you’re cutting out. I showed my design to my buddies and they all said it was sick and wanted to buy it!
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