Last spring, while up in Boston for my son's graduation, we took a day to visit Gloucester, one of the country's oldest fishing ports and a favorite haunt of mine whenever I'm up that way.
I always enjoy seeing all the old boats, and on this particular day "The Flight" was out of the water and being restored. I watched a man carefully welding her sides and I determined I had to paint her.
This one took mustering some courage before I even got started with it. I had to really concentrate on getting the details of the drawing correct, before I could move on to worrying about the paint application.
I also made some changes to the composition in order to take some of the frivolous dock debris out of the background and replace it with the simpler suggestion of water and distant shore.
Hopefully it doesn't look labored, but in truth it was a laborious task from start to finish!
1 comment:
Another painting that I must say I really like. Shades of Monet here!
Post a Comment