Style of Another Kind – Daryn McBride Surf Art

For some reason I can’t get off this surf art kick.

It may have to do with the spring season in San Francisco. The spring in San Francisco is a windy affair. Unlike the cold and wet winter, the spring is clear, sunny, and windy–onshore to be precise. This inevitably leads to some problems. The most obvious one is a stormy soup of waves at Ocean Beach. The other problem is that you wake up in the morning, look out the window to a bright sunny day with an expanse of sky blue sky. With a giddiness usually reserved only for hot tropical climates, you put on a t-shirt and shorts, slip into flip flops, and prance outside to find the wind is whipping off the Pacific at 60 knots. This is not the dry heat of Santa Ana winds I grew use to in San Diego–this wind feels like it’s been shot through the butt of a polar bear and cycled through the crevasse of an iceberg.

So that is how we ended up here talking about art. This is Daryn McBride styling some tubes on canvas. Best enjoyed with soupy and blown out conditions.

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