Watercolor 10" x 13"
One of the great resources available to a newspaper editorial cartoonist is access to the paper's library (in the old days it was referred to as the morgue). The library of the Richmond Times-Dispatch is an absolute treasure trove of photos going back many decades, and I have spent countless hours over the past 30 years rummaging through many of the hundreds of thousands of photos neatly filed away alphabetically in huge file cabinets. One day, I came across an old black and white photo taken in the 1940s of an Army ship that had broken its moorings in a nor'easter in Maine and washed up on some rocks near a lighthouse. I decided to use the photo as reference for a watercolor. I did the whole painting using only burnt sienna and cobalt blue.
3 comments:
Love it. In fact, it is along the lines of our "family room theme" - it would look great on my wall. ;)
Keep up the great work!
Awesome, Gary, I love this picture. I can almost feel force of nature in pushing this ship on the rocks. I would say this is my favorite so far (and I was just looking at some of your other artwork yesterday). XK
Hello there.
I love all of them, but the hens and the barn are my favorites. Will these become a print?
Marilyn
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