Ship paintings

[Brian Hanington]

You have such a fine touch. I truly love your work. Thank you for sharing! 

[Vegaskip]

Coasters

The coastal trade, based on an every day Thames scene

Does this help?

 

Edited January 8, 2022 by Vegaskip
Ammend

[Vegaskip]

Just for a change, a wee pencil drawing this afternoon. 'Baron Scott' 11” X 8”

[Vegaskip]

HMS King Sol ASW Trawler hard worked little ship. Returned to owners post WW2 Scraped 1961.

watercolour 11" X 8"

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JC Harrison London 'Harpalyce' based on the entrance to the Royal Docks 

w/c 16.5" X 11.5"

Edited January 19, 2022 by Vegaskip
Spelling

[Vegaskip]

SS Pembrokeshire

Shire and Glen Line Far East and Australia run

w/c 16" X 11" ish 

[Vegaskip]

Convoy

w/c A6 6” X 4” posrcard size. Anon merchant ship HMCS Portage escort.

[Vegaskip]

C class Flying Boat of Imperial Airways about to alight at Victoria Harbour Hong Kong 1930s

watercolour 16" X 11"

[Vegaskip]

Quickie while in Shetland

Fifie passing the drinking horse - Dore Holm, Eshaness, Shetland .

[Vegaskip]

Islander

Short Sandringham Flying Boat 'Islander' about to alight at Lord Howe Island 

 

w / c 16" X 11"

[Vegaskip]

Coming Home

HMS Fencer and HMCS Rockcliffe, in Convoy.

w/c 16" X 11"

[Vegaskip]

Dewsland

Small sketch 

Trawler Dewsland  w/c 6" X4" colours may be wrong B/W ref pic.

[Vegaskip]

HM Trawler FIARY Isles class Trawler

 

another small sketch w/c 6" X 4"

[Vegaskip]

Canadian built Armed Trawler Texada 

w/c 6" X 4"

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Sailing trawler off St Abbs Head 

w/c  6" X4"

[Nirvana]

Wish I had those skills! Truly amazing and very beautiful.

[Vegaskip]

Thank you for the complements . Facebook, I’m on far too many pages already, but thanks for the invitation.

 

[Vegaskip]

Bomb Vessel 19 century, based on the Grenado.

[Vegaskip]

S51 Dragonfly Helicopter 
w/c 6” X 4”

[Vegaskip]

Surrender

 

An old one but I don't think I posted it before
HMS Magpie and HMS Amethyst in the back ground. Meet U249 flying the black surrender flag, to escort her into Portland Naval Base, while an RAF Sunderland Flying Boat flies overhead. Winston Churchill once said that the only thing he feared in WW2 was the U Boat threat.

[Vegaskip]

RAF Sullom Voe in the Shetland Islands. Sunderland and Catalina flying boats of 330 and 333 Norwegian Squadrons moored off shore. The land on the other side of the Voe is now occupied by the Sullom Voe Oil Terminal.
watercolour 16" X 11" 

[Meriadoc Brandybuck]

Flying boats are such interesting subjects. I’ve always wanted to do a diorama with them, but a painting is better perhaps, able to show the atmosphere, light, and clouds, being uniquely immersive for the cost of a few hours’ work (if your previous comments are to be believed), as opposed to the months it would take to make such a diorama in scale, and the loss of the bedroom to store it. Thanks for sharing!

 

Meriadoc

[Vegaskip]

Three afternoons about 6hrs, not including several hrs trying ( unsuccessfully ) to find some reference pics of the place and time. I actually worked nearby for 4 years so I was reasonably familiar with the general lay out, although most of that is not in the pic!. 
 

 

[Vegaskip]

This afternoon's effort.

China Trade

Ships at anchor while the fishing continues Watercolour 6" X4" (postcard Size)

[Vegaskip]

Victoria

 

HMS Victoria sits below the recently completed Forth Bridge

 

[Vegaskip]

HMS HOOD ( not that one! ) entered service 1893. Sunk as a block ship at Portland Harbour 1914 

watercolour 16.5" X11.5"

[Vegaskip]

HMS Gannet (white) with 'Battleships' Sans Pareil and Donegal. Both Battleships had Steam and Sail power, with retractable Funnels.

watercolour 16" X 11"

[Vegaskip]

Small 90 min painting

Ship 'Hotspur' 1210 tons Built 1885 at Bath.USA. Lost on her second voyage in 1887
6" X 4"

[Vegaskip]

Leith Roads

British 'C' class Cruiser in Leith Roads, Firth of Forth, Edinburgh in the background. WW1

 

w/c on canvas textured paper 12" X

[davyboy]

Arthurs Seat,the Salisbury Crags and the Pentland Hills in the far distance behind Edinburgh Castle. I grew up in Auld Reekie from 1941 to the late 1950's. Your painting brought back quite a few memories. Thanks for that. BTW,love all of your paintings.

 

Dave