I started to paint the board! w00t! After a few days of sanding and other preparations, I actually started painting the board… white. So I'm just starting off with the base/background colour and the actual painting of design hasn't really taken place but I'm getting there. I also modified the design a bit, so instead of barewood showing around the design, it'll all have a solid white background.

Anyway, even with just the acrylic paint, it was difficult to get the brush strokes even! I realised after that that I hadn't worked with acrylic/oil paints and brushes in ages! So yah, the brush felt totally foreign to me. I'm probably going to have to practice some cardboard so that I can get some nice brush strokes and proper blending or summat like that.

Added some gesso to my longboard. The prepping is nearly complete. Once this stuff dries, I can actually (finally) draw the image onto the board and then paint over it. I have to sand it down a bit before painting but that shouldn't be too difficult. I have to make a slight adjustment with my design, however, since the bare wood won't be seen in-between the design anymore. I decided to change it up to make it true to some Sector Nine longboard designs.

In other news, Anna Nicole Smith has died. Quite sad to think that her child will not see her mother and will most likely not know who her father is until the paternity suit has been resolved. I cannot believe that the CNN website placed this “breaking news” on their front/landing page this afternoon. Then, the local news spent the first 15 minutes of their evening broadcast discussing Anna Nicole Smith. Only in Los Angeles? And now, half my post this evening is about her death. How morbid of me. Anyway, RIP. She's with her son, now.

Ok, I was able to stain both sides of my longboard later this afternoon. It absolutely looks like an arbor board! LOL. It has quite the Hawaiian-look. I should probably put leis as a design rather than a sword and shield but oh well. Tomorrow, I'm going to be prepping the surface for acrylic paint with some gesso and then (I hope) on Friday, the painting will begin. Actually, I probably have to trace the image first and then paint. Ooooh… getting mucho excited!

I wish I had a photo but it's late and I've to be up early tomorroz so I'll try to post a pic of the updated board… tomorroz!

In other, non-creative news, I got the letter about my speeding ticket thingy. Yep, I got another speeding ticket >_< UGH. After like, not having one for 9 years, I've received my 2nd one almost a year to the date. What is this? Yearly speeding tickets for sh*ts and giggles?! Since it hasn't been 18 months, I cannot take the "regular" traffic school programme. I have to go to court, ask (or perhaps plead) for traffic school and go to 12-hour non-online class... Didn't I say I wasn't going to speed (ever) again last year?! I guess I lied :(