Russ Pope @ Blue Hawaii Surf Pearlridge

I met Russ Pope this past fall while in San Diego. Russ has worked with many of the skate companies through the years as art director, artist, etc. Russ is now the art director over at Vans but he still works with companies like Brixton and Captain Fin contributing design work and direction. Russ also skates and gets out on his old vintage single fin log when there's surf. While we were chatting it up in SD I threw out there the invite that if he were ever in Hawaii to stop by and if possible do an installation for us. Fastforward to late November and I get a text from Russ saying that he'd be in Hawaii in a couple days for the Triple Crown and that he was down to come in and paint. Stoked! While Ancell and Kelcey were in the middle of wrapping up their pieces, Russ popped in and was stoked to see his old friends already there painting. This was so rad to have all 3 of these guys at our new location contributing to our new gallery. Thanks to Russ, Liam, and Vans for gifting us with this amazing piece that we are proudly displaying in our store front window display!

Russ had mentioned that he sketched this out while on the plane ride to Hawaii.

Throwing in elements of Vans signature checkboard into his artwork.

.....and here it is! A Russ Pope original in the window of our Blue Hawaii Surf Pearlridge location.