Journal

Had a lot of fun creating this new original, which is also available as a print here. Made with Copic markers. I hope you like the process as much as I do.

New A2 original. Drawn with Daniel Smith watercolor on Arches 300 gsm cold press paper.

This project is a collaboration with my friend Shinji Asai. It is a surfer's search of the true nature of the mind, based on the story from "Ten Ox Herding". Ten Bulls or Ten Ox Herding is a series of short poems and accompanying drawings used in the Zen tradition to describe the stages of a practitioner's progress toward enlightenment and her or his return to society to enact wisdom and compassion.

This month we caught up with Stockholm-born Surf Rat, Jonas Claesson, the Freshwater Swede whose silky smooth Longboarding Moose has become a global sensation and graces this issue’s cover with the soulful style that’s made him a star.