Vegaskip

one from some time a go. 1997 I think 

Jim 

This time T2 type Tanker in the Suez Canal.

jim

A little change .

 Pencil sketch Trawler 'United Boys and 'Bervie Braes'
10 X 7 inches

Certainly will 

Heres the latest.

Jim 

Five of the six paintings for the Easter Weekend Exhibition and Sale at St Andrew Blackadder church at North Berwick. Bring your 'plastic'.
Jim

Barque Galena, Ashore on the Oregon Coast. My figures need a lot more practice!.
15" X 11"
Jim

CL415 'superscooper' water bomber fire fighting aircraft. Designed specifically for Fire Fighting, built originally by Canadair, later by Bombardier. Seen here scooping up water to drop on to a Forrest fire.
15" X 11"
Jim

Thank you all. Here's another.

Sailing Fishing craft at the turn of the 19/20 centuries. The Bass Rock and East Lothian in the distance.
15" X 11" 
Jim

This afternoon's trip into imagination. Off St Abbs Head in a South Easterly Gale.
15" X 11"

14 hours ago, Mark P said:

Hi everyone;

 

One point that some may not be aware of:  the picture posted by Jud shows what is known as a 'Compass Rose'.  This was the name of the (fictional?) corvette in Nicholas Monserrat's WW11 sea novel,  and it wasn't until many years after I first read it that I realised what the name meant.

 

All the best,

 

Mark P

A very clever use of words. Remember Compass Rose was a 'Flower' Class Corvette.

Jim

Did this today

Swordfish about to land on Merchant Aircraft Carrier. Rapana, which has pulled out of the convoy with a Corvette escort to recover her.
Rapana was an oil tanker fitted with a flight deck. She carried her normal cargo, but had four anti submarine Swordfish to help protect the convoy. Although no a/c fron a MAC ever sank a submarine, no ship was ever sunk from a convoy that had a Mac Ship in it
16" X 11"

Most are W/C some are Acrylic

jim

latest

Buttermere painting finished not any particular Tanker just representative of the many in use at the time.
Jim

HMS Vanguard T he Last British Battleship. Jim

Anstruther harbour late 19th/early 20th century. Fifie and Zulu sailing Luggers awaiting the tide.
About 15" X 9"

Hi Rob, I'm afraid I can't really help you with my painting techniques. I haven't studied, nor been trained in watercolour painting.  Infact I use the same technique doing the actual painting whether it is watercolours, Acrylic or even Oils. ( although it's been several years since I used oils.).

Basically, I draw the ships, then colour them in. Unless it is an actual location or event, I paint the sea as I go. No tonal studdies. No thumbnail sketches of composition. No use of warm/cool colours (not intentionally anyway) I see what I want in my minds eye and go for it. I something  start of with the idea of a painting, and by the time I'm finished it has completely changed. 

Hope this helps 

jim

Iron Barque 'Shakespeare' passing the ill fated steamer 'Waratah'

Thank you to everyone who have commenting.  Here is an other, hot off the pad.

Four masted Barque Ecuador among the Bergs in the Southern ocean.
Watercolour 15" X 12"
Jim

Submarine depot ship HMS Vulcan with her brood at Portland .
W/C  10" X 7"
Jim

Top sail Schooner going down Channel

'Oronsay' cruising off Alaska with orcas 

11" X 9"

Jim

Lamport & Holt's Liner VASARI. In WW1 from a black and white photo so the colours are based on a scheme typical of the time. 
Built 1909 later became a Fish Factory ship in the USSR
Watercolour 11" X 9"
Jim

Corvette HMS STARWORT and Trawler HMS POLLOCK probably on the Mersey again.
Watercolour 14" X 10"
Jim

2nd Escort group 
Liverpool, HMS Starling leads the way with HMS Wild Goose following with a Seaward Defence Launch in attendance.
Watercolour 15" X 11" 
Jim