Surfboard Art School!

Get this! These kids at Richard Lander School in Truro get to make their own surfboards at school.

How classrooms should look!

And paint them with me, before they get them glassed at Best Ever surfboards in St Agnes.

The Surfboard Manufacture course is a choice on the school's popular activities week, during the last week of term. 

It was expertly run in the DT rooms. The pupils got to shape their own boards from blanks in whatever style they want. All the boards were really good shapes. I let them do the same with the sprays, and go for any style and content they wanted. Some of the ideas where pure genius!

They designed their own decals!

Paint pen dept.

Boards being glassed back at the factory.

Demo spray.

Tattoo table tops

The Q bar, Falmouth yesterday (just over a year since I re-designed the bar and drew all over the walls and tables). I carried the tables outside and stacked them on their side, revealing the design that had been on them for a year, and got to work re-painting them.

The owner, a couple of customers and some passers by got involved too.

limited edition quiksilver tees

!!Just had pics ahead of the press release:

These Quiksilver Limited Edition Organic tees by Cosmic ( me :) will be in the shops in the next few weeks and ALL profits from the limited sale go to the Surfers Against Sewage campaign (S.A.S)

This year Surfers Against Sewage campaign are 20 years old!

SAS were formed, and still operate, from the village where I live, work and surf.

In twenty years this environmental pressure group has done a heck of a lot to force the powers that be change the filthy, putrid, sewage ridden UK seas (that used to give us all the shits and worse) into clean waters, much safer for recreational use!

They are available in various colours and flavours. They are a bit sik though, so make sure you're up to it!

More details to follow as I get them!

You can join SAS here... sas.org.uk

qbar update: mezzanine area

Last night, while (most of) you were sleeping, I was painting this...

Cornwall Colouring Books Day Out

I decided that today would be a nice day to take the Cornwall Colouring Book No.1 By Cosmic to meet some new outlets.

I Started in Gwithian and continued to deliver to Marazion, Porthleven, Praa Sands, then onto venues on The Lizard peninsula, St Keverne, Coverack, and back via Kenneck Sands and Helston.

Had a great day meeting loads of new retailers. There are some very cool people working in Cornwall!!

The Cornwall Colouring Book No.1 By Cosmic will now be on sale at all of these locations.

Music Academy walls

The Cornwall Music Academy opened yesterday in Hayle, and I was asked to go and draw on the walls outside their brand new practice rooms to be kept as inspiring decoration.

The visitors were encouraged to offer suggestions of things for me to draw on the walls throughout the day. One of the best had to be 'batman with flutes for legs'!

There was loads of live jazz, brass bands and quoir music and a samba band.

The local radio, Atlantic FM were broadcasting from there all day, there was also a bbq, face painting and tons of free music lessons, and lots of excited people!

All Images © Cosmic 2010

florist shutters

A second peice at Jane Adele's florist in Truro. Last year I drew a big flower on the wall which is still there.

As this is painted on the roller shutters, this is only visible at night. Although I went over the edge so you can see the side bits during the day. They love it and have plans for more... watch this space... or their space

The theme is the florist's connection to their base in Porthtowan and in Cornwall. Kenny, the deliver driver, can be seen flying around the county in the delivery van, at the top.

The brief was: "Whatever you think." :)