One of my favorite events of the year….The Belmar Pro, hosted in my former home town. Â This year I set up again in the perfect weather of the late summer with my lovely wife Chelsea. Â The waves weren’t too cooperative as they usually are this time of year, but we had such a fun time hanging out with everyone. I’ve so appreciative of all the support and good vibes we received from everyone!
I improvised a painting on the last day of the event. I didn’t quite get to finish it with everything else going on, but I got a good start and made some nice progress on a piece that I’ll finish sooner or later.
Little Dean Randazzo Jr. wanted to help me out. How cute is this?
Pretty good progress considering I was multi-tasking!
After his heat, my buddy Dean Randazzo and his adorable son little Dean took a shot with me. Â Such a bummer the waves sucked this year, he was surfing against Tom Curren. That could have been insane if the conditions were like past years.
A fan named Mike came up to me as I was live painting to show me his tattoo inspired by my painting “Belmar Barrel”. Wow! Totally worth taking a break for a photo opp’!
After a long and great weekend, we got to enjoy some epic Thai food with Barbara and Dean Randazzo.