I got a call from my pal Nora a couple of weeks ago telling me about a skateboard charity auction that was going on up in the mountains. She asked if I would be interested in painting one and I said "Sure!" I had been thinking about doing one for a while and figured I'd give it a whirl. Anyway, pretty much as soon as I hung up the phone I forgot all about it.

Flash forward to last weekend. I was gonna be in my pal's neck of the woods and planned to stop by. She reminded me about the skateboard gig and said she had one for me to pick up. "Great!" says I. so I go have lunch with my pals and I pick it up and ask her when it needs to be completed. Says she: "next weekend."....

So I dug into my little bag of tricks, meaning my old sketchbooks, and pulled out an old sketch that I had never found the appropriate project for and churned this out. I kept the coloring simple and the shading to a minimum. It will not survive one railgrind. I may have another go at one in the future when I have more time.