Further work on this suite of Marine Paintings. A few new ones, and some drawings preliminary to a few I’d like to get going soon.
Category Archives: Marine Paintings
“Backing Around to the North,” a new Marine Painting
Backing Around to the North
This painting was inspired by the sloop Regina M. now at Mystic Seaport. Regina M. is a Carry-Away Boat, an early form of Sardine Carrier closely related to the Lubec Boats.
A Suite of Marine Paintings, updated
This is a series of marine paintings I’ve been working on over the last year. Some have been shown here before in earlier stages, a few are new. One last image is of a sketch that may turn into a painting. They are shown in a roughly chronological order although most have “been touched” in the last few weeks.
Recent work
Still Life with Conch & Skull
It’s been a while since I’ve added new work here. This painting was done in the Fall.
The following slide show includes new works and some earlier paintings that have gone further than when last shown.
Stages of a Painting, Lee Shore
Lee Shore
Lee Shore is another painting going through an evolution I’ve been documenting.
Stages of a painting, Mattakeeset
Mattakeesett, Indian Header
You may have noticed that images of some paintings have morphed over the months. I began adding new paintings at the first point at which they seemed to be “completed,” or at least when work was suspended on them. As time goes on, I’ve returned to my habit of pushing paintings along when a fresh look at them shows some lack. This is part of the work process. It’s part of that healing and knitting that goes on as a painting weathers in.
Banks Schooners
I’ve spent my adult life in the shadow of the Banks Schooners. Growing up looking out across one of their greatest harbors as the dwindling number and growing decrepitude of their bastard descendants, the Diesel powered draggers followed by the ungainly modern trawlers, left the sea as bare above as they had the waters below.
The following is an excerpt from Something for Nothing. A reluctant rum-runner contemplates the schooner he loves and feels he’s betrayed.
