Ship paintings

[pontiachedmark]

Gidday Vegaskip,

I am constantly blown away by the talents on display on this site. Your art is really something to be proud of. Fantastic work.

Regards,

Mark

[Vegaskip]

'The cost of your ration of Butter has risen again.' Survivors of a torpedoed Merchant Ship in the North Atlantic during WW2
W/C 11” X 8”

 

[Vegaskip]

De havelland Sea Venom all weather fighter, operating from HMS Albion 1950/1960's
I had the 'pleasure' of working with them from HMS Eagle and Victorious.

w/c11” ax 8”

[Vegaskip]

Manchester Ship Canal during WW2. with a 'Liberty' ship heading for the docks. RAF Anti Aircraft Barrage Balloon Sqdn preparing for a busy night. People out for a walk along the canal banks. Life goes on!.
W/C 14” X 10”
Jim

 

[Vegaskip]

Just a 'Liberty', what ever one you want it to be.

w/c 11” X 8”

[Vegaskip]

Another Liberty, this time in Ice wc 11”x 8”
Jim

[Vegaskip]

HMS Calypso with the Destroyer Tirade 'thrashing down Channel'

w/c 16” X 11”

jim

[Ian B]

Super Picture, My great uncle served on Calypso in WW1 as a signaller, he must have the most nautical name in the whole world and yes this is his real name 'Plimsoll Drake'.  

[Vegaskip]

Just for a change.'Busy day in East Anglia' B17s WW2 

Painted 1997

jim

[Vegaskip]

Portsmouth Harbour, a variety of small craft
Acrylic about 18” X 12”

[Vegaskip]

Scrapyard, an exercise in detail and texture.

jim

[Vegaskip]

HMS Patriot a Thornycroft 'M' type Destroyer towing her Observation Balloon. Patriot was credited as the first ship to sink a submarine using her own air element.
She later went to the Royal Canadian Navy, her name being used for a land base,possibly still active?
Jim

[Vegaskip]

Spritsail Barges and fishing boat getting underway

Acrylic on canvas about 20” X 12”

Jim

[BETAQDAVE]

Love your sailing ships! Keep em coming.

[Vegaskip]

For Remembrance Day

HMS Britomart and Convoy Rescue Ship Copeland pick up survivors.

 

[Vegaskip]

Last year I was approached by Katya, a Teacher in a School in Murmansk. She asked if I could help her with some of my paintings of Russian Convoys, for a project she was doing with her pupils for the School Museum. She contacted me through the Dervish75 events which Greta and I Attended. Anyway, today I received a letter with a Christmas Card from her, along with the end result of the project. A small folder with photos of my paintings. It is to be used to promote the School's Museum.
A small thing but a little sign of friendship by the ordinary people of both Countries. Only the angry sensational stuff reaches the media, while us ordinary folk get on with life.
Jim

[mtaylor]

That is a marvelous thing you did for their museum, Jim.   It's the little things we do for one another that make a difference.

[Vegaskip]

Thanks mark. Here’s one I did yesterday

Swordfish dropping a practice torpedo, aimed at the Paddle Minesweeper HMS Glen Avon. Off the coast of Fife near Crail. Glen Avon and Usk, both ex excursion steamers were taken up by the RN. Based for a while at Granton, they were often used as 'target ship' for aircraft from the torpedo school at HMS Jackdaw, RNAS Crail.
W/C 16” X 11” 

 

[Vegaskip]

Tornado GR4 of 617 Sqd at Craig a Barns near Dunkeld
Watercolour 16” X 12”

[ccoyle]

Skip, your last painting really brought back a memory. I used to do some fisheries work on Stone Lagoon in Humboldt County, California. The lagoon is the middle one of a north-south group of three lagoons that form Humboldt Lagoons State Park. There's an old red schoolhouse across the road from the lagoon. The lagoon and its lone schoolhouse made an easily seen and identified waypoint for US naval aircraft practicing low-level ingress missions, so every so often we would see an F/A-18 or Intruder zip over at treetop height, just like in your painting.

[Hubac's Historian]

Really lovely use of color, amazing detail and perspective, and every painting is full of movement and vitality.

[Canute]

I was in a flight of Phantoms, years ago. doing something pretty similar during hunting season in central Pennsylvania. We were in a low fly area and crested a ridge at very low altitude, spooking some whitetails away from some poor guy who'd probably spent all morning maneuvering to get a shot.  As we rounded into a turn I glanced back and saw he wasn't exactly waving goodbye. I could see a bright orange jump suit in the tree line.

[jud]

South of Boardman, Oregon the Navy has a Bombing Range that started out as a WW 2 US Army Air Force bombing Range, still is in active use. In 64 I was running a John Deere 95 Combine like the one in the photo and in similar country on top and on the East side of Rock Creek. Navy often used to fly over as in your above painting and the pilots loved to buzz you. Usually could detect them and enjoy the flyover except for the one that caught me with my rear to the West on the crown of a hill he was skimming, set a record shutting down a 95 H when his shadow and engine noise struck at the same time, high heart rate for about 30 minutes. Think it was that shadow along with the sound that triggered that reaction, the shadow had not went over me during previous flyovers.                                                                                                                                                                                                 

 

Edited January 16, 2019 by jud

[Vegaskip]

Army Air Corps 'Scout' AH 1. Of 666 sqd  in 1986. over what is part of Dunkeld Golf Course. The Loch of the Lowes in the back ground 

commision for a gent who was thereJim

[Vegaskip]

The Scottish Horse was a Yeomanry regiment of the British Army's Territorial Army raised in 1900 for service in the Second Boer War. It saw heavy fighting in both the First World War, as the 13th Battalion, Black Watch, and in the Second World War, as part of the Royal Artillery. It amalgamated with the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry to form the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry/Scottish Horse in 1956. The regiment also became part of the Army Air Corps 655 Squadron. 6th Regiment AAC. Originally raised around the village of Dunkeld the regiment's colours and archives are kept at Dunkeld Cathedral. The painting was commissioned by one of the keepers of the archives, it shows a Lynx Helicopter of 655 Sqdn AAC flying near Dunkeld Cathedral. 
16” X 11”
Jim

[Vegaskip]

Buccaneer '530' of 12 Squadron near St Fink Rattray, Blairgowrie. Autom 1988.
Watercolour 16” X 11” 

[Vegaskip]

'Over There'

[Vegaskip]

Two 6Sqdn Typhoons on low level exercise.
Jim
“This Way”
“No this way”
“No it’s definitely this way”

[lmagna]

 thought it was a little more like, "I'm not following you, you're LOST"!

 

Love seeing your work and your diverse subjects. Makes me always wonder what is going to be next.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[michaelpsutton2]

I have been admiring your amazing work for months and am a painter myself. Some of your paintings remind me of the late Montaque Dawson's sailing ship pic's. How long does it take for you to paint one? Could you post some pictures of the process? A paint log as it were.