Ships - Three Works in Progress

My ginger tom, Junkyard came back from one of his wandering trips with an injured left front paw and is hobbling around.

Although I have still not been able to touch him, he was hungry enough to come close to me for his food and did sniff my hand before he retreated to wait for me to leave.

Hopefully, I will soon be able to get my hands on him to see how much damage there is and fix it or take him to the vet.

Dawn Sky I

Winter still is not ready to let go its hold; we are starting the day off with strong winds and heavy snow falling.

The temperature is 22F (-6C) and we are going to get another 6" (15cm) of snow. So much for the third day of spring.

I decided that other than going back out into the storm to do barn chores that I will stay inside today and get a few things done around the house.

Full Sail I

I pulled these three sketches out and did a little work putting some ink on each of them.

There is still more drawing that needs to go into each piece before they are ready to have more ink put onto them.

I will post each ship at a later date as they are completed.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog and look at the artwork.

Follow the Leader I

Sailboat Sketch 1 and 2 - Two Works in Progress

I seem to be on a ship trend at the moment and decided I would like to do a few sketches to develop into paintings of larger sailing ships.

Rather than daytime with the blue of the sky and white of the clouds reflected into the water, I wanted to do a sunset concentrating more on the ship in a vertical format.

I put the dark clouds into the sky and behind the sails so I would have a strong contrast of the sunset colours passing through the sails as the focal point.

Sailboat Sketch 2

Another painting I would like to do is a ship sailing on a moonlit night.














Sailboat Sketch 1

The contrast of the white sails frosted by the moonlit standing out against the darkness all around should prove to be an interesting challenge.

I will post each of these sketches again once I have the outline drawing completed and small colour paintings of how the pieces would look.

Four Ships

It is a bright and sunny day, but cold outside and the wind has finally stopped blowing.












Engage I

The movie Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World was on television again and I wanted to do more sketches of the ships as I did earlier this year.














At Anchor I

It is a good exercise that I often do with landscape drawings, as you have seconds to observe what is interesting and you put down on paper what you remember.













First Battle I

Later the sketch may be developed into either a drawing or a painting when I have time.














Derelict I

Sunken Wreck 1

Today I was thinking about diving in the Caribbean and since I enjoy wreck diving I thought I would do a drawing of a wreck.

I placed the wreck on the reef and put a hole in the hull.

Next I put in a distant hill in the background behind the boat.















At a later date I may go in and add coral formations onto the closer rocks or put some fish swimming around the boat.

It is also a good reference for a future painting. We will see what the future may bring.

Thank you for coming to look at my artwork and I hope you will return often.

Three Ships

I was watching Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World on television and decided to do some sketches of the various ships.

Doing these quick sketches forces me to put down the most important parts of the ships and to get the proportion correct.

Then later on when I decide to turn the sketches into either watercolour or acrylic paintings I have a solid foundation from which to work.

Storm Waves I

















Battleships I












At Rest 1