Canute Posted January 31, 2019 Share #361 Posted January 31, 2019 Been there, done that, Lou. "Do you know where you are?" "Well, kinda" mtaylor and lmagna 2 Quote Ken Started: MS Bounty Longboat, On Hold: Heinkel USS Choctaw paper Down the road: Shipyard HMC Alert 1/96 paper, Mamoli Constitution Cross, MS USN Picket Boat #1 Scratchbuild: Echo Cross Section Member Nautical Research Guild Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted January 31, 2019 Author Share #362 Posted January 31, 2019 I was asked if I could put up a 'How I do it' series here it is hope it helps jim davyboy, GrandpaPhil, mtaylor and 14 others 17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmagna Posted January 31, 2019 Share #363 Posted January 31, 2019 (edited) 2 hours ago, Canute said: "Do you know where you are?" "Well, kinda" I ALWAYS know where I am, I just don't always now how to get to where THERE is Ken! On the other hand My wife is lucky if she can find her way across the street and back! Jim, do you have an average time it takes you to make and average painting? It seems like you are a little like Bob Ross, cranking out another beautiful rendition every day or two! Also I can't help but wonder what you use as inspiration for each painting. They seem to run the gamut from aircraft to ships, calm weather to storms, modern to ancient. Edited January 31, 2019 by lmagna John Allen, Canute and mtaylor 3 Quote Lou Build logs: Colonial sloop Providence 1/48th scale kit bashed from AL Independence Currant builds: Constructo Brigantine Sentinel (Union) (On hold) Minicraft 1/350 Titanic (For the Admiral) 1/350 Heavy Cruiser USS Houston (Resin) Currant research/scratchbuild: Schooner USS Lanikai/Hermes Non ship build log: 1/35th UH-1H Huey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaelpsutton2 Posted January 31, 2019 Share #364 Posted January 31, 2019 It's really amazing to see the development up from the conception sketch. Is the white on the sails, hull and foam still watercolor? I am guessing the sky/sea is a watercolor wet on wet blended technique. Thanks for the demo BETAQDAVE, Canute and mtaylor 3 Quote Drown you may, but go you must and your reward shall be a man's pay or a hero's grave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted January 31, 2019 Author Share #365 Posted January 31, 2019 This painting and similar, I usually do in an afternoon, 2 to 4 hours. Size A3 about 15” X 11” some times it will run over into the next day for an hour or so. I seldom do preliminary sketches , I usually know what I want and can build on it as I go. I am not a 'Water Colourist' I just use watercolour paints. White, I use gouache. I don’t know much about the technical stuff. Nor the fancy named paints. Mine are, light, medium and dark, I don’t mix up umpteen colours to get Black, I use Payne’s Grey or black if I have it. Mistakes, if bad I dump it and start againusualy different setting. Minor just wet and dab out. hope it helps. jim mtaylor, BETAQDAVE, Fernando E and 4 others 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted February 5, 2019 Author Share #366 Posted February 5, 2019 I don’t know if I’ve posted this before. A bit of American Heritage Ships of John Paul Jones's squadron pass the river Forth estuary. Later, they were involved in the battle of Flamburgh Head. L to R Le Cerf , Pallas, Bonhomme Richard and Vengeance, September 1779 Jim PS the ships are my own interpretation. reklein, BETAQDAVE, JpR62 and 16 others 19 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted February 7, 2019 Author Share #367 Posted February 7, 2019 The Ship Derwent in Capetown Docks from a photo taken by one of her crew. The red building is now a 'posh' hotel. Commissioned by a descendant of the man who took the photo Acrylic on Stretched canvas 18” X 12”ish Jim mtaylor, Mirabell61, BETAQDAVE and 12 others 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted February 11, 2019 Author Share #368 Posted February 11, 2019 Display Here is the finished Dunkeld Cathedral and the Scottish Horse dicplay. Features the painting of the Lynx Helicopter over the Cathedral. Regiment Cap Badge. Army Air Corps flashes, regimental Tartan and Blazer badge. And for those who missed the original post. The history of the SH. 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. davyboy, BETAQDAVE, Captain Poison and 12 others 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted February 11, 2019 Author Share #369 Posted February 11, 2019 Dredging Shipping in an Estuary early 20th century. jim lmagna, Captain Poison, ken@southside and 17 others 20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted February 15, 2019 Author Share #370 Posted February 15, 2019 Lower Thames Dredger and a Hay Barge. 16.5” X 11.5” watercolour jim davyboy, JohnB40, BANYAN and 18 others 21 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jud Posted February 15, 2019 Share #371 Posted February 15, 2019 One seldom thinks about Hay, but within all industrial City's or Port's that become crowded populate centers, Hay is the fuel that kept the Draft Animals working. Without that hay the citizens would need to move back into a rural setting, industry at a large scale would have disappear, replaced by the local Black Smith, Millers, Harness Makers and a few others there to support the rural needs, there would have been few laborers because the majority would be working on small holdings to feed themselves and selling only in small units. Hay is what fed and supported early industry. Like your work, surprising how that work reveals History seldom considered, is that your unspoken intent or is it one heck of a good accident. Looking forward to your next offering. mtaylor, el cid, JpR62 and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted February 15, 2019 Author Share #372 Posted February 15, 2019 1 hour ago, jud said: One seldom thinks about Hay, but within all industrial City's or Port's that become crowded populate centers, Hay is the fuel that kept the Draft Animals working. Without that hay the citizens would need to move back into a rural setting, industry at a large scale would have disappear, replaced by the local Black Smith, Millers, Harness Makers and a few others there to support the rural needs, there would have been few laborers because the majority would be working on small holdings to feed themselves and selling only in small units. Hay is what fed and supported early industry. Like your work, surprising how that work reveals History seldom considered, is that your unspoken intent or is it one heck of a good accident. Looking forward to your next offering. The history part is intended. I also try to depict little known maritime events, and the humbler work a day vessels. You didn’t mention the end product of all that Hay. With several hundred thousand horses in London, it had to be moved. A lot of it went back to the farms it came from as fertilisers, not the most popular cargo!? jim Jack12477, el cid, jud and 4 others 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmagna Posted February 16, 2019 Share #373 Posted February 16, 2019 Used hay is still a unpopular yet profitable and necessary commodity. LOVE your paintings Jim. I'm always looking forward to the next installment. BETAQDAVE, John Allen, mtaylor and 1 other 4 Quote Lou Build logs: Colonial sloop Providence 1/48th scale kit bashed from AL Independence Currant builds: Constructo Brigantine Sentinel (Union) (On hold) Minicraft 1/350 Titanic (For the Admiral) 1/350 Heavy Cruiser USS Houston (Resin) Currant research/scratchbuild: Schooner USS Lanikai/Hermes Non ship build log: 1/35th UH-1H Huey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted February 17, 2019 Author Share #374 Posted February 17, 2019 No particular shipwreck, but everything is based on many similar events. 16” X 11” w/c paulsutcliffe, Pete Jaquith, el cid and 21 others 24 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaelpsutton2 Posted February 18, 2019 Share #375 Posted February 18, 2019 If I understand correctly the concept behind the paintings is not some photograph? I am truly impressed. The paintings look like they have been agonized over for day. To be able to go from the mind to such a completely articulated vision!! Canute, vossiewulf, mtaylor and 2 others 5 Quote Drown you may, but go you must and your reward shall be a man's pay or a hero's grave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vossiewulf Posted February 18, 2019 Share #376 Posted February 18, 2019 (edited) 2 hours ago, michaelpsutton2 said: If I understand correctly the concept behind the paintings is not some photograph? I am truly impressed. The paintings look like they have been agonized over for day. To be able to go from the mind to such a completely articulated vision!! (Artist hat on) All of them are composed and executed well with good dynamic range, and they just feel lively and have good motion to them. I'd buy prints Edited February 18, 2019 by vossiewulf Canute, ken@southside, John Allen and 3 others 6 Quote Building HM Cutter Lady Nelson 1:64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted February 18, 2019 Author Share #377 Posted February 18, 2019 Sometimes it is a photograph that sparks an idea. Or something I read about and try to 'illustrate'it. The previous ones of low flying a/c were commissioned by an enthusiast who had seen the actual event. He supplied photos of the locations, I also 'google earthed' it. Using photos of a/c from the squadrons, and where practical inserting the side numbers, serials, etc. I would say, half the fun is the research. Well actually that’s wrong one third, the fun is the research. Another third, the painting. And the last the look on the 'commissioner's' face.(so far I’ve been lucky, they have liked them!) When I started the wreck, I knew I wanted a square rigger, a lifeboat and a Tug. I wasn’t sure about the composition so painted the 'setting' first.(see pic). After looking at it for a while, I put in the ship, then the lifeboat then finally the Tug. I thought about a Rocket Rescue Unit from the cliffs but decided not to. Jim JpR62, Captain Poison, schiffebastler and 12 others 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted February 21, 2019 Author Share #378 Posted February 21, 2019 Hospital Ship UGANDA with a Chinook Helicopter unloading casualties off the Falkland Islands In 1982 while a Royal Navy WESSEX awaits its turn W/C 16” X 11” Jim ccoyle, vossiewulf, lmagna and 15 others 18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schiffebastler Posted February 23, 2019 Share #379 Posted February 23, 2019 I have looked at all your posts here, these are really fantastic pictures that you show us here. I can't keep up with my own pictures. I'm looking forward to the next update. Regards Joachim Canute and mtaylor 2 Quote My new Book in ENGLISH and GERMAN available: "The colour blue in historic shipbuilding" http://www.modellbau-muellerschoen.de/buch-en.htm Current build Amerigo Vespucci http://modelshipworld.com/index.php?/topic/836-amerigo-vespucci-by-schiffebastler-mantua-model-scale-184-italien-sail-training-ship-build-1931/ See also our german forum for Sailing Ship Modeling and History: http://www.segelschiffsmodellbau.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted February 24, 2019 Author Share #380 Posted February 24, 2019 Murmansk “It’s not over till the 'Fat Lady' sings” After Fighting it’s way across thousands of miles of hostile ocean, Russian Convoys still had to endure frequent air attacks. The 'Front Line' was less than 50 miles from Murmansk W/C 16” X 11” Jim JpR62, ken@southside, Jack12477 and 10 others 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken@southside Posted February 24, 2019 Share #381 Posted February 24, 2019 On 2/21/2019 at 8:30 PM, Vegaskip said: Hospital Ship UGANDA with a Chinook Helicopter unloading casualties off the Falkland Islands In 1982 while a Royal Navy WESSEX awaits its turn W/C 16” X 11” Jim lmagna, Canute, BANYAN and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken@southside Posted February 24, 2019 Share #382 Posted February 24, 2019 Jim, I returned to the UK from the Falklands on SS Uganda, my unit was the last unit to return by sea before the airport at Stanley re-opened. I wonder if it is the same ship? mtaylor, Canute, John Allen and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted February 24, 2019 Author Share #383 Posted February 24, 2019 It would be. After the war, she was chartered by HMG and converted for Trooping. I think she did about 6 trips. jim mtaylor, lmagna and Canute 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken@southside Posted February 25, 2019 Share #384 Posted February 25, 2019 Hi Jim, Brings back a lot of memories. We boarded in the Falkland Sound using pontoons and disembarked by Wessex on the Ascension Island, all 600 plus. Your work does it justice and very true to life. Thank you. Ken lmagna, Canute, John Allen and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sea Hoss Posted February 25, 2019 Share #385 Posted February 25, 2019 Great work! You portray a "feeling" as well as a visual...I also work with water colors, although I have mostly directed my efforts doing portraiture, both human and animal. People love them and they make great gifts. mtaylor, BETAQDAVE, Canute and 1 other 4 Quote Current: Emma C. Berry Lobster Smack-Model Shipways-1:32-1866 Back on the shelf: USS Essex- MS- "Old Yellow Box" Solid Hull Wall Hanger (Half Hull) Completed: 18th Century Armed Longboat-MS 1/24 USN Picket Boat-MS 1864 1/24 US Brig Syren by Sea Hoss- Model Shipways-1803 18th Century Carronade/Ship Section Mayflower-Pilgrims Pride by Sea Hoss-Model Shipways-1620 18th Century Long Boat by Sea Hoss-Model Shipways USS Constitution by Sea Hoss-Revel-Plastic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J11 Posted February 26, 2019 Share #386 Posted February 26, 2019 These are wonderful and you have fabulous talent! Do you have any "American Civil War ship paintings"? Would love to see some of those also. Thank you very much for sharing. BETAQDAVE, lmagna, Canute and 1 other 4 Quote Current build project: CSS Alabama 1/96 https://modelshipworld.com/topic/20148-css-alabama-by-jonathan11-revell-196-scale-kit-bash-90-historical-accuracy/ Finished build projects 2018: H.L Hunley 1/24 CSS Arkansas 1/96 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted February 26, 2019 Author Share #387 Posted February 26, 2019 Thank you all for your comments jim BETAQDAVE, lmagna, Canute and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted February 26, 2019 Author Share #388 Posted February 26, 2019 2 hours ago, Jonathan11 said: These are wonderful and you have fabulous talent! Do you have any "American Civil War ship paintings"? Would love to see some of those also. Thank you very much for sharing. Sorry I don’t have any. However you have planted a seed!. So far it is a period I haven’t really looked at, so you never know. jim ChadB, mtaylor, John Allen and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted February 28, 2019 Author Share #389 Posted February 28, 2019 (edited) On 2/26/2019 at 8:39 AM, Jonathan11 said: These are wonderful and you have fabulous talent! Do you have any "American Civil War ship paintings"? Would love to see some of those also. Thank you very much for sharing. Sorry I don’t have any. However you have planted a seed!. So far it is a period I haven’t really looked at, so you never know. jim Fishing on the Grand Banks jim Edited February 28, 2019 by Vegaskip Jack12477, BETAQDAVE, ccoyle and 19 others 22 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cog Posted March 2, 2019 Share #390 Posted March 2, 2019 I've got a question. Since it's mostly water colour, the white horses on the sea and the white in the clouds, is it gouache or acrylic? lmagna, Canute and mtaylor 3 Quote Carl "Desperate affairs require desperate measures." Lord Nelson Search and you might find a log ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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