Custom sculpture for Marc

Marc's Gf Katrina custom ordered this for his birthday. The only stipulation was... "make him checking the waves". So I took the idea and ran with it. This one is titled "Surf check at the end of the trail". Found objects mounted on Jersey swamp cedar with pine dune fence. The board has a hd foam stringer and fin.
Enjoy Marc.

New custom hand plane

Here 's a new custom hand plane, or I might call this model a Hand Sled, for a birthday present. Made from royal paulownia with mahogany stringers and white cedar and mahogany nose & tail blocks. I did a little experiment with texturing the deck on this one too. As always there is a nice concave on the bottom for lift.

I think this is my favorite one so far. Models like this one will be around $150 if anyone is interested. Basic hand planes start @ $65. Send any custom orders to info@JKSurfArt.com

Will's new logo

Will's newest logo for boards, vans, motorcycles, tattoos or whatever else he wants. Sorry the picture isn't any clearer.

INTRO 101 Art Show

BAUHAUS Presents...

INTRO 101

V.Burk B.Harned / Photos

J.Kelly / Sculpture

Opening Night - Saturday 5/14/11 @ Bauhaus - 788 Haddon Ave, Collingswood, NJ

Hope everyone can stop by to check it out!!!

My painting donation for ... I HEART Art @ Positively 4th St

Here is my donated piece for I <3 Art...

Fin Revolution #?.2

Custom MDF frame

New Recycler Paipo project...

I always start projects and never seem to reconnect with them till months later. I stripped the glass from the nose of HAARRRRYYYY's old Stewart and templated out one of the Tomb Stone templates on it months ago. Then, a few weeks ago I spent a day ripping wood for cutting boards. I ripped a piece of white cedar I found in the rafters for outside stringers on the paipo randomly during that session. I cut the blank and finally started gluing in the stringers tonight. This is what she looks like so far.

^^Before glue^^

^^Glued Up^^

These Recycler projects are fun little projects. I think I'm going to make recycled wood flooring d-fins on this. It should be interesting to see how this one turn out.

Buy Local, Surf Global

I poached this from Eric's blog from the Beach House Classic Board Shop. It's a great little piece about buying locally and the surf industry. Check it out, and please support your local artists and surf shops.

Kara's hubby's cutting board

Some of the rips for cutting boards went into the glue up for my college friend Kara as I said before. I shot a pre-glue-up photo, but forgot to take a post return from the mill shot. Oh well. The guys @ South Jersey Lumbermans hooked it up. It was run through their giant belt sander and flattened out perfectly. Some finish sanding and routing and it came out perfect! This cutting board measures approximately 24" x 18 1/2" x 2". Wow it's a beast, super cool though. The coolest one yet! So far it has 1 coat of butcher block oil on it. I'm adding a few more and then shipping it off to Lancaster.

Let the cutting boards start up again...

Kara, an old friend from my art school daze, contacted me on Facebook about a cutting board for her husband. I of course said yes. This one is going to be a beast... 2' long by about 18" wide and 2" thick. WOW! I'm going to have to take the glue-up to the mill to plane it down, b/c my planer can only handle 12 1/2" boards. Here are the boards being milled from a few pieces of maple hardwood flooring scraps my buddy Jimmy gave me. Plus there will be pieces of purple heart, yellow heart, black walnut, and mahogany being put into the random glue-up blank.

Sight/Sound

Mikey Detemple's new flick is coming together nicely. Check out the preview HERE b/c I can't figure out how to post Vimeo videos on here.

Joe Lowenstein Fine Stained Glass Work/Banzai Pipeline

"Pipe Dream" by J. Lowenstein 2010

Joe contacted me a while back to help get his work out to more people. As an artist and a lover of art I of course said yes. His work is awesome, and pictures defiantly don't do it justice. I saw it during sun set @ Steve & Cookies Oyster Bar in Margate, NJ a few weeks ago. It is stunning. Finished in April after 7 months/500 hrs, he was trying to show one of the gigantic 50 ft. monsters that roll in over the north shore of Oahu in the winter. It measures 6' x 3', and has approx. 1500 pieces of German, French, and American style glass, plus several shades opf glue chip glass.

Asking price: $9500

Here's is Joe's bio...

I started out in the styained glass trade back in 1979. I was walking down Main ST. in New hope, Pa, when I came upon a stained glass shop. I walked insideand was looking out from the inside-this dude had an entire forest scene down 20 ft. on one wall and 30 ft. down the other one. He probably had 50,00 pieces of glass in this project. My jaw dropped, the guy came out of the back of the shop and asked me if he could help me, I said"how do you do this"? He laughed ,told me to come into his workshop and he'd show me. He showed me how to use the cutters, grozing pliers,etc. He said the best tyhing I could do was go to a hardware store at home and get some cheap window panel type glass, the 2 sets of pliers, and go home and practice cutting the glass. He sais I'd know very soon if this or not. If not-then I wouldn't have spent much cash. I did all this and within 10 min I knew I was HOOKED!!!!!. I strated making small suncatchers that you hang in front of the window on a string. Then I made afew larger things mirrors, jewel boxes, etc. By one yrs time, I was making full siuze panels for the neighbors. As time passed, I found I was getting all the work I could do by word of mouth referrals alone. I have many references that can be called,who can attest to my work. Thanks again- JOE

If you are interested in Joe's work please contact me, and please if you are in the area of Steve & Cookies in Margate, NJ stop in and see this for yourself.

Cutting boards for Xmas gifts...

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The Cutting Board Above Is

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It seems these things are taking off. I'm making cutting boards and have already sold a bunch for Xmas. If you would like one (or more) contact me now so I can get it glued up and finished off before Xmas. I'll ship these out, but make sure you get you get your order in now, the last day I feel safe shipping out is Dec 15th.

You can find some of these and ones like them on my Etsy site...www.etsy.com/shop/JKSurfArt

Custom Wedding Cake Topper ...

My friend Steve Gibson and his new wife Kathryn commissioned me to do a piece for their wedding cake. Congrats guys the wedding looked beautiful. I'm glad you chose me to be part of your special day.

Special thanks to Rebecca Perazza-Benson for the photos.

Dashboard surfing San O

Here's a shot from Sterling's dashboard rider's perspective...

Sculpture for South Jersey Surfrider Event

Here is a sculpture I made for the South Jersey Surfrider Foundation art benefit last winter. My friend Steve Mullen sent this over to me a bit ago. I forgot about it, but now it's found. Dig the fancy red wetty! ;-) The board is made from paulownia and red cedar.

Dashboard Riders headed to San O!!!!

These 2 dashboard riders will be on proud display in 2 different San O surf vans. These triple stringer boards are glued up from maple and mahogany, both with red cedar log cutoff bases (I found on the beach in my secret spot).

Sterling, I hope you and your buddy enjoy these guys as much as I enjoyed making them.

tarp surfing

Check this out... If you haven't already...

Batman - *Uncut* 60's TV episode 104 (1 of 3) Surf's Up! Joker's Under!

LOL!!! Fun stuff!

New baggies designed by yours truly...

They are finally here...

I designed these shorts as a part of the Quicksilver Collaborative. 6 surf shops were chosen to design their own shorts. Heritage Surf Shop was one of these, and I was asked to design a one of a kind "Fin Revolution" painting to use as the print on them. Quicksilver made up a pair of their bitchin Diamond Doby board shorts with the image. I'm super stoked on the way they turned out.

"Perfect Trim" sculpture

A new sculpture for my non existent blog posts... Perfect Trim is a small sculpture on a hunk of royal paulownia. The board is made of bass wood with a mahogany and maple t-band and a paduk fin. finishing off the sculpture is a patina copper wave lined with small pieces of driftwood. This surf art sculpture will be for sale on my Etsy site. Sorry for the blurry pics.