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Jim,

 

When I read you first post, it sounded like you just took up painting as a hobby for retirement, then I saw your work and thought man, you didn't retire, your on a career.  You have all the chemistry for good nautical illustration than so many professional illustrators seem to struggle with.  Most important, you have mastered perspective, depth of field, and scale.  That is very hard for a lot of illustrators to do, for out of scale features stick out and throw the scene off balance.  

 

I really like your work.

Scott

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Current Builds:  Revell 1:96 Thermopylae Restoration

                           Revell 1:96 Constitution COMPLETED

                           Aeropiccola HMS Endeavor IN ORDINARY

Planned Builds: Scientific Sea Witch

                            Marine Models USF Essex

                            

 

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On 10/17/2017 at 2:28 PM, Vegaskip said:

I don't consider my self an Artist, more a ship painter.

Well I for one think you should...these are exceptional

 

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Thanks for commenting. I joined in 1958 and left in 1968, just as they were coming into RN service. I did however work with a fair number of A/C from the cartoon. Sea Hawk, Sea Venom, all mrks  of Gannets.  Scimitar, Sea Vixem, and Buccaneer. Helicopters Dragonfly Wasp Whirlwind Wessex 

. Now I just paint them.

jim 

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Here's an unusual one, Marine painting with Hippos and Efelumps.
Up river from the last one Konigsberg in her Lair.
watercolour 16" x 12"
 
HM ships Severn and Mersey maneuver into position in the Rufiji River in East Africa during the action against the German Light Cruiser Konigsberg in WW1

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fantastic work Jim,

 

the sea, its foam crowns and the wake of the corvette is super realistic....

Question : how do you get the white foam on the sea where it has already been painted blue before ?

Well done !

 

Nils

Current builds

-Lightship Elbe 1

Completed

- Steamship Ergenstrasse ex Laker Corsicana 1918- scale 1:87 scratchbuild

"Zeesboot"  heritage wooden fishing small craft around 1870, POB  clinker scratch build scale 1:24

Pilot Schooner # 5 ELBE  ex Wanderbird, scale 1:50 scratchbuild

Mississippi Sterwheelsteamer built as christmapresent for grandson modified kit build

Chebec "Eagle of Algier" 1753--scale 1:48-POB-(scratchbuild) 

"SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse" four stacker passenger liner of 1897, blue ribbond awarded, 1:144 (scratchbuild)
"HMS Pegasus" , 16 gun sloop, Swan-Class 1776-1777 scale 1:64 from Amati plan 

-"Pamir" 4-mast barque, P-liner, 1:96  (scratchbuild)

-"Gorch Fock 2" German Navy cadet training 3-mast barque, 1:95 (scratchbuild) 

"Heinrich Kayser" heritage Merchant Steamship, 1:96 (scratchbuild)  original was my grandfathers ship

-"Bohuslän" , heritage ,live Swedish museum passenger steamer (Billings kit), 1:50 

"Lorbas", river tug, steam driven for RC, fictive design (scratchbuild), scale appr. 1:32

under restoration / restoration finished 

"Hjejlen" steam paddlewheeler, 1861, Billings Boats rare old kit, scale 1:50

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I use white Gouache straight from the tube. It acts almost the same as real foam, thick, it is white, thinned it takes on the under colour. The main colour for the sea, I use Indigo, with a touch of other colours as I think necessary.

I use the same painting technique whatever the medium. Oil Acrylic or W/C 

Jim

 

this is what I am doing right now although I have stopped for lunch  

North Cape again 

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Something different, I did this a few years ago. ' The Burning of Fort Washington'  I can't vouch for accuracy it was mostly done from narrative discriptions of the event.

27 August,1814 Fort Washington on the Potomac River.
A small force of Royal Navy ships Commanded by Commodore James Alexander Gordon consisting of the Frigates Seahorse 38Guns and Euryalus 36. Bomb ships Devastation, Aetna, and Meteor each with 1 X 10" & 1 X 13" mortar and the Rocket vessel Erebus. The Ships are seen here preparing to bombard the fort. after the Ships opened fire the forts Commander Capt Samuel Dyson, spiked his guns and blew up the Fort's Magazine
Acrylic on canvas 31 X 15 inches

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What a fantastic portfolio of maritime and related art.  You certainly have a talent for this.

 

cheers

 

Pat

If at first you do not suceed, try, and then try again!
Current build: HMCSS Victoria (Scratch)

Next build: HMAS Vampire (3D printed resin, scratch 1:350)

Built:          Battle Station (Scratch) and HM Bark Endeavour 1768 (kit 1:64)

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Oh, yes Sir, you have been to sea and obviously love her as much as the ships. Your paintings are evocative and profoundly moving in many ways. Thank you for sharing them. You have created a new admirer and customer. I very like your appreciation of service craft and the oft neglected, lonesome and forlorn, patrol boats. My heart has a warm place for Castle class trawlers.

 

John

 

 

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If you have been at sea, especially in the Royal Navy, some of these people may be familiar to you!. Or heaven forbid, recognise your self!

Jim

1. Deck and Engineroom 

2.  Sickbay and Galley 

3.  Lady Stoker! And me !

4.   Skipper. Jimmy the 1 or Chief Office, Exec. Or just an 'Osifer'.

 

 

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