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| Hiking Out Intended as a companion to another of my paintings, Sailing In, Hiking Out captures the power of a Hobie Cat running before a headwind in a churning sea. I used the roughness of the art paper and just barely touched the surface with pastel (pure pigment compressed into what appears to be a stick of chalk) to heighten the sense of 3-dimension and movement though water. The story of this sailboat began in the 1950s on a sunny day at Laguna's Main Beach, when a teenaged buddy of Hobie Alter's asked, "What are we going to do with our lives?" The answer was simple. Hobie looked out onto the waves, dug his toes in the sand, and said, "Nothing where we have to wear shoes, or live on the east side of the Pacific Coast Highway." After becoming a successful surfboard manufacturer, Hobie developed a prototype for a lightweight, fast and easy-to-sail playboat based on the Polynesian twin-hulled catamaran in the late 1960s. Alter introduced a whole new way to have fun in the sun and revolutionized the industry in the process. To compensate for the tendency of the Hobie to 'pitchpole' (plow one of its hulls into a wave and upend), sailors "hike out" or lean as far over the edge of the boat as they can as a counterweight. The original pastel, presented in a 4" wide hardwood frame in a driftwood finish, triple matted in an acid-free sea-blue suede on a hardwood filet on a sea-blue suede with an outer dimension of 39" x 44"), is available for $5,900.00. Limited edition prints and note cards are also available. |
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