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HMShips Starling and Wild Goose Set out for another U boat hunt While a Norwegian Tanker heads upstream With another cargo to help 'The Few' to keep flying.
14” X 9” watercolour.

AMC 'Saxonia' and Hospital ship 'Wandilla' On the river Mersey during WW1. The ship with the Red Funnel is Saxonia in her civilian dress.
W/C 14” X 10”

Morning breeze clearing a fog bank in an estuary early 20th century
W/C 14” X 10”
Jim 

Sunday afternoon lock down session. Samson Class Fleet Tug
Watercolour 10”X 7.5”
Jim
 

White Star Liner Corinthic in 'Dazzle' camouflage 
Watercolour 14” X 10”

AMC Otranto
Afternoon Quickie. L to R HM Ships Glasgow, Otranto and Good Hope. Just before the Battle of Coronel
W/C 14” X 10”

I read some Taffrail books, but that was many, many years ago.

jim

Royal Navy Brig HMS Black Joke intercepts a Spanish 'Slaver' off the west coast of Africa. 'Black Joke', probably built in Baltimore, was captured by the British and became part of the 'West Africa' squadron suppressing the Slave Trade. She went on to become one of the most successful ships in the Squadron, freeing hundreds of Slaves.
Watercolour 14” X 10”
Jim 
 

Thanks. It’s the smaller ships I prefer, Battleships don’t do a lot other than fire guns. Destroyers down, have fun and go to places that BBs don’t. 
jim

HMS GLENAVON. Paddle Minesweepers head out for the morning 'sweep' passed a 'Bar Boat' working on moorings. 
W/C 15” X10”
Jim

Thoroughbred to Carthorse 

Once a crack Tea Clipper 'Cutty Sark' seen here as 'Ferreira' a Barquentine in Portuguese service. Now restored and preserved at Greenwich on the River Thames
w/c 14” X 10”

Wouldn’t know how to. Anyway it would just be the same as on here, where you can see them all here for free!

jim

Thanks, couldn’t afford it. Jim

Afternoon Quickie 
Cutty Sark drying her sails. In the days before becoming a tourist attraction she was a hard working vessel in the Tea and wool trade.
19” X 7”
Jim
 

Fear Nothing

HMS Dreadnought docking assisted by Tugs
14” X 10” watercolour
Jim

Minesweeping Trawlers 'Ben Dearg' and 'Cardiff Castle' return to Base. 
W/C 11” X 9”

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HMS Alisma  drops a pattern of Depth charges
w/c 11” X 9”
Jim

1 hour ago, SJSoane said:

Jim,

 

I don't know how I missed your postings all these years. These are first rate paintings, well composed, dramatic content, expressive craftsmanship. I used to teach drawing to architects, but we were always drawing buildings. Seascapes and ships are infinitely more challenging, in my view, and watercolor makes it even more so. As you well know, but others may not, the challenge of watercolor is that one has to think in reverse, leaving things white at the very start and working towards the darks. And it is very difficult to fix mistakes. One has to have a great deal of confidence to just "lay it down" without hesitation, to keep it fresh. You are a master at this! I hope you are considering producing a book of your paintings.

 

Any progress on the Trafalgar scene with a submarine?🙂

 

Mark

No, the Trafalgar one was just a joke. Thanks for the above post.

I'm not really a ‘Watercolourist' in the proper traditional way . I paint with watercolour paints, yes I use the transparency at times but for white, I use Gouache. I know 'zilch' about the technical side of things, all the fancy names for different colours. To me, I use for eg. dark blue, middle and light blue. . I paint using what I call my 'Spitfire' method. If it looks right it probably is. I’m a great believer in drawing. I draw the Subject then 'colour it in. I have the idea for the painting, draw it then paint it, sometimes changing it as I go. As it was here. It was just this afternoon 24hrs after I finished the original that I decided to put in the Swordfish. It was a toss up between it and a Catalina. There is an idea for a Cat. Lurking in my mind.

Jim

On 3/27/2020 at 12:24 PM, allanyed said:

Super congratulations Jim!    I have been back to the Academy quite a few times since graduation, but not recently.  Wish I had known about your event and could have timed one of my business trips to NY to coincide.    Did you happen to get a copy of the book and if yes, is it a good read?    Cheers

Allan   

 Depot ship HMS WOLFE , two T class submarines, a TID Tug and a Rescue Tug
W/C 14” X 10”

3 hours ago, allanyed said:

Super congratulations Jim!    I have been back to the Academy quite a few times since graduation, but not recently.  Wish I had known about your event and could have timed one of my business trips to NY to coincide.    Did you happen to get a copy of the book and if yes, is it a good read?    Cheers

Allan   

I was emailed the manuscript, which I read. Then discussed by email the scenes to be depicted.

Here is my copy of the book

On 3/24/2020 at 5:47 PM, G.L. said:

That's a nice one, is that an Algerine class corvette?

'Algerine'. Originally Minesweepers. Most Canadian ones had MS gear removed and replaced with Depth charges, and used as Convoy Escorts.

jim 

On 3/26/2020 at 10:50 AM, allanyed said:

Hi Jim, good to see you back.  Your latest paintings reminded me of one of my merchant mariner heros, Edwin O'Hara for which the athletic hall at the US Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, NY is named.    He was an 18 year old cadet of the SS Stephen Hopkins which was in a surface battle with a German ship in 1942.  The Hopkins went down with much of her crew, including O'Hara who took over the manning of their 4" gun prior to going down.   I believe the Hopkins was the only Liberty Ship credited with sinking a German ship as the German ship Stier was so heavily damaged by the Hopkins that she was scuttled.   The painting below can be seen at the academy and I thought as an artist you would appreciate this tribute to O'Hara.  Cadet Edwin O'HaraSS Stephen Hopkins

Thanks for posting this. ' Been There, Seen the picture. Didn't get the 'T' shirt'. In 2016 I was asked if I could paint a cover and some illustrations for a book being written about the experiencies of a Ships Engineer Cadet on board a Liberty Ship the book 'Liberty's War'. To cut a long story short. The book was launched at the US Merchant Marine Academy, at Kings point. I had the Privilege and Honour to be invited to the event, and to give a short talk about how a retired ex RN Rating from a small village in Fife Scotland came to be there. The cover painting was acquired by USMMA Museum. What more could I ask, one of my paintings among such eminent company.

some photos of the cover painting, exhibition and launch.

Sorry, been off painting since before Christmas, just one of those things. 
Here’s the latest

 based on 'Fort Grahame' and HMS Acute J106

HMS Coldstreamer A/S Trawler

jim