Video: Painted surfboards. Pyrography by Peter Walker
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Motorists and bikers, cyclists, skateboard fans and surfers - they are all so different, but at the same time so the same. In particular, with regard to your favorite "toy", it is also a leisure, hobby, sport, the meaning of life. They invest a lot of money in tuning their "baby", try to dress up and embellish her, like a beloved girl, gradually turning an ordinary vehicle into a work of art. Artistic painted surfboards an Australian designer Peter Walker, the author of the project Walker Surfboards … The artist doesn't just paint wooden surfboards to make them look brighter and more attractive. He puts "fire tattoos" on the plane, in other words, he is engaged in pyrography, or wood burning. By hardening the surfboard with fire and iron, he breathes into it the spirit of fire, which makes the board more agile and dexterous, helping the surfer to hold the wave and do all kinds of tricks. In addition, fire tattoos are not just drawings, but ornaments that have a magical effect, protecting, inspiring and guiding the athlete.
The surfboard's artistic transformation begins and ends with fire. To begin with, the artists burn the surf above the fire in order to breathe the same spirit of fire into it. Then an intricate, complex pattern is drawn with a pyrograph, covering a significant area of the board with it. A drawing can consist of symbols, signs and inscriptions that have a special magical meaning, or be just an original beautiful picture, floral ornament or landscape. Finally, paint with acrylic paint and cover the advanced surfboard with a protective fiberglass layer. Voila, the tuning is over, and now we have not just a surfboard, but a unique, exclusive art object worthy of being called a work of art.
To see how this complex creative process of reincarnation takes place, as well as to learn about other creative projects of Peter Walker, visit his website.
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