ART ON BOARD

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CLIENT: Nickelodeon
PROJECT: “Art on Board” appeared in Nickelodeon Magazine

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Art on Board

In a museum, it’s usually bad manners to put your feet on the art. But these artists would be insulted if you didn’t step on their work. That’s because they design skateboards for a living.

CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD: WES HUMPSTON
Wes Humpston was one of the first artists to put his artwork on skateboards back in the 1970s. He learned how to draw by copying pictures out of Maurice Sendak’s book “Where the Wild Things Are.” Later, when he started building and painting skateboards, he got inspired by everything from Hawaiian and Asian art to the paint jobs on California hot rods.

A WHEEL ARTIST: ANDY JENKINS
Many of Andy Jenkins’s paintings land straight on the walls of art galleries, but some of them wind up on the bottom of skateboards. Andy learned how to draw from his father, who was an artist. While he gets many of his ideas for his skateboard art from books and music, some, like his shark board come from his childhood. “I’ve been fascinated by sharks since I was in fourth grade, “ he says. It doesn’t bother Andy that the art on a skateboard gets scratched off pretty quickly. “Sometimes it even looks better after a few board slides.”

INK DIFFERENT: SEAN CLIVER