{"id":1026,"date":"2008-07-06T09:42:51","date_gmt":"2008-07-06T16:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2008-07-06T11:14:34","modified_gmt":"2008-07-06T18:14:34","slug":"surf-artist-phil-roberts-interviewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1026","title":{"rendered":"Surf Artist Phil Roberts Interviewed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/bs01-jbay.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/bs01-jbay.jpg','popup','width=700,height=511,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/bs01-jbay-tm.jpg\" height=\"313\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Bs01 Jbay\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the world of ocean art there can be some pretty <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wylandgalleries.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">hideous stuff<\/a><\/strong>, but we&#8217;ve been hypnotized by Newport Beach artist <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philroberts.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Phil Roberts<\/a><\/strong>&#8216; WCT work for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billabong.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Billabong<\/a><\/strong> since spending the first part of last December at Pipeline sitting next to the event banner. That&#8217;s why we were stoked to read <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/72.47.235.75\/jbay08\/backstage.php\" target=\"_blank\">an interview<\/a><\/strong> with Roberts on the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billabongpro.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Billabong Pro J-Bay<\/a><\/strong> site, where he discussed his art for all the events.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jefferies Bay I broke barriers in myself in painting skills&#8230; I now feel I can call myself a painter and no longer an illustrator after this painting ( I went straight to paint with no pencil under drawings, I sketched it out with a 4&#8243; brush ) and I wanted to &#8220;school&#8221; all of those &#8220;crappy&#8221; underwater painters on how to paint dolphins surfing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We agree. Click the link for the entire interview.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/72.47.235.75\/jbay08\/backstage.php\" target=\"_blank\">Billabong Pro<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the world of ocean art there can be some pretty hideous stuff, but we&#8217;ve been hypnotized by Newport Beach artist Phil Roberts&#8216; WCT work for Billabong since spending the first part of last December at Pipeline sitting next to the event banner. That&#8217;s why we were stoked to read an interview with Roberts on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}