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Somewhere Near Tapachula
New York Surf Film Festival

Sunday, September 26th, 2010

One of the many excellent films showing at the New York Surf Film Festival this year is a film called Somewhere Near Tapachula, and just aired today (September 26, 2010). I was super stoked to find that a drawing that I drew last year had also made it into a few posts written about the film… Read on to find out more about this amazing group of people building up a vibrant surf community in Mexico.

“Somewhere Near Tapachula, by Jonno Durrant and Stefan Hunt: 54 Mexican kids, 37 surfboards, 2 Australian parents, 1 inspiring surf story! Pam and Alan Skuse left their family and their comfortable lives in Australia to volunteer at a Mexican orphanage for one year. They accidentally founded Mission Mexico and are still there ten years later. Five years ago they started teaching children to surf in the deserted world-class local waves. Now the kids rip and the joy of the sport helps them heal from their unimaginable pasts.” via NYSFF.com

SOMEWHERE NEAR TAPACHULA from stefan hunt on Vimeo.

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Tags: illustration, inspiration, Links, NYSFF, Tapachula, travels
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New Painting…

Friday, June 4th, 2010

I had the great fortune of being able to paint on commission a little something for some friends lately, and got carte-blanche on the final product.. Something I don’t always think to do when I’m painting is take process pictures, but this time around I had a little foresight. Very little was preconceived, in drawing or otherwise, though I had the idea at first that I wanted to paint a thick stand of trees.

'Night-time picnic', process ©2010 Peter Demaria, ETA

Night-Time Picnic, Acrylic on Panel ©2010 Peter Demaria, ETA

Having established my stand of trees (not quite as thick a stand as I might have liked, but they fit the space well) I needed some sort of central focus… Cats are always fun, and then there is some sort of pretext needed, and what always ties in is people. And I love the idea of nature not being scary. So in the end we have a sort of semi-sultry domestic scene, a quick meal cooked after dark by the light of a small gas burner and a little moonlight.

Tags: acrylic, Analogue Couleur, Art, comissioned art, paint, painting
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“RICH, Inside & Out” Book Cover Concept

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Recently there was a design contest posted on globalgrind.com by icon Russel Simmons. The call for entries was to produce a book cover for his upcoming book “Rich Inside and Out, A Guide to Money and Happiness”. Two Images were provided as reference and some of the entries were posted as guidance.

I was up for the challenge, I love a well designed book cover, not to mention great illustration (though none was involved in this instance, and maybe there should have been… hmm). Now there has been, in the profession of Graphic Design, great disdain for contests and speculative work (i.e. work without a guarantee of compensation). And sadly I can no longer can fall back on student status as an excuse for taking part. The AIGA (Professional Association for Design) even has an official position on such work (namely, that it is a big huge no-no, and devalues all Design). But at this point in my life, I take what I can get, so if my time can be spent designing something at least potentially ‘real’, then so be it. Below is my entry…