Ship paintings

[Vegaskip]

Thanks Nils, here are another couple of beauties

Printz Eugen Along with Hipper in a Norwegian Fjord

Jim

[ScottRC]

Jim,

 

When I read you first post, it sounded like you just took up painting as a hobby for retirement, then I saw your work and thought man, you didn't retire, your on a career.  You have all the chemistry for good nautical illustration than so many professional illustrators seem to struggle with.  Most important, you have mastered perspective, depth of field, and scale.  That is very hard for a lot of illustrators to do, for out of scale features stick out and throw the scene off balance.  

 

I really like your work.

Scott

Edited October 23, 2017 by ScottRC

[Vegaskip]

Thanks Scott, just a pity all this didn't happen 30 years ago.

jim

[Vegaskip]

Some more Square Riggers. Both paintings are on A3 16" X 10" paper

jim

Edited October 24, 2017 by Vegaskip

[Vegaskip]

Two small ones  7" X 5"

Portsmouth Dockyard, a bit before my time.

jim 

[jct]

On 10/17/2017 at 2:28 PM, Vegaskip said:

I don't consider my self an Artist, more a ship painter.

Well I for one think you should...these are exceptional

 

[Vegaskip]

Thanks for commenting, it's good to get feed back. I like doing thes kind of harbour scenes , but there's not a lot of reference material on service craft  an dock side equipment.

jim

[Vegaskip]

Not ships today, but certainly 'Naval'

Fleet Air Arm Phantom about to refuel from a Buccaneer 

a 'poster' type cartoon I did for the Centenary of British Naval Aviation.

jim  

[Landrotten Highlander]

I love the bit about 'the future one'

[Vegaskip]

Just me being sarcastic about all the 'kerfuffle' the two new Carriers, and what to fly off them, catapults or VTO.and the rest of the indecision from HMGovernment.

[Vegaskip]

Another a/c related painting Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam 

Seaplane tender USS Currytuck hoists a P5M Martin Marlin of VP-48 aboard for servicing, while another takes off.

USCGC Half Moon in the distance and LST, USS Washtenaw County as depot for small craft.

jim

[jct]

Love the F-4s...wrenched on J, B, and N models "back in the day" nice work

[Vegaskip]

Thanks for commenting. I joined in 1958 and left in 1968, just as they were coming into RN service. I did however work with a fair number of A/C from the cartoon. Sea Hawk, Sea Venom, all mrks  of Gannets.  Scimitar, Sea Vixem, and Buccaneer. Helicopters Dragonfly Wasp Whirlwind Wessex 

. Now I just paint them.

jim 

[Vegaskip]

I call this 'Leading the Way'

jim

Edited October 26, 2017 by Vegaskip

[Vegaskip]

 

Here's an unusual one, Marine painting with Hippos and Efelumps. Up river from the last one Konigsberg in her Lair. watercolour 16" x 12"   HM ships Severn and Mersey maneuver into position in the Rufiji River in East Africa during the action against the German Light Cruiser Konigsberg in WW1

Edited October 26, 2017 by Vegaskip

[Vegaskip]

Here is a 'how I paint my pictures' the painting is titled "Make less smoke" Corvette admonishes elderly vessel in convoy.

hope they come out in the correct order . Time taken, one afternoon approx 4 hrs. 16" X 10" 

jim

 

Edited October 27, 2017 by Vegaskip

[Mirabell61]

fantastic work Jim,

 

the sea, its foam crowns and the wake of the corvette is super realistic....

Question : how do you get the white foam on the sea where it has already been painted blue before ?

Well done !

 

Nils

[Vegaskip]

I use white Gouache straight from the tube. It acts almost the same as real foam, thick, it is white, thinned it takes on the under colour. The main colour for the sea, I use Indigo, with a touch of other colours as I think necessary.

I use the same painting technique whatever the medium. Oil Acrylic or W/C 

Jim

 

this is what I am doing right now although I have stopped for lunch  

North Cape again 

Edited October 27, 2017 by Vegaskip

[Vegaskip]

Now 1410, most of the Destroyer in.

jim 

Edited October 27, 2017 by Vegaskip

[Vegaskip]

Getting there,

 

[Vegaskip]

Finished. 

Battle of North Cape  from a Destroyer's view point.

Jim

 

[Vegaskip]

Something different, I did this a few years ago. ' The Burning of Fort Washington'  I can't vouch for accuracy it was mostly done from narrative discriptions of the event.

27 August,1814 Fort Washington on the Potomac River.
A small force of Royal Navy ships Commanded by Commodore James Alexander Gordon consisting of the Frigates Seahorse 38Guns and Euryalus 36. Bomb ships Devastation, Aetna, and Meteor each with 1 X 10" & 1 X 13" mortar and the Rocket vessel Erebus. The Ships are seen here preparing to bombard the fort. after the Ships opened fire the forts Commander Capt Samuel Dyson, spiked his guns and blew up the Fort's Magazine
Acrylic on canvas 31 X 15 inches

Edited October 29, 2017 by Vegaskip

[Vegaskip]

Did this one this afternoon

wanderers

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Albatross and Square rigger in the South Atlantic 
W/C 23" X 12" 

Edited October 30, 2017 by Vegaskip

[trippwj]

Beautiful work, and a wide variety of subject matter to boot!  Thank you for sharing these with us.

 

All the best -

 

[BANYAN]

What a fantastic portfolio of maritime and related art.  You certainly have a talent for this.

 

cheers

 

Pat

[Vegaskip]

Pat and Wain, thanks for commenting, it makes a world of difference. Here are some more pics.

 

Mauritania in dazzle Camoflague 

 

USS O'Brien , USS Chickopee and HMS Shah

jim

[JohnE]

Oh, yes Sir, you have been to sea and obviously love her as much as the ships. Your paintings are evocative and profoundly moving in many ways. Thank you for sharing them. You have created a new admirer and customer. I very like your appreciation of service craft and the oft neglected, lonesome and forlorn, patrol boats. My heart has a warm place for Castle class trawlers.

 

John

 

 

[Vegaskip]

Thank you John, you are very kind.

here is HM Trawler North Coates, if I remember right she was a castle class. A very successful design more than 150 built.

Jim 

[Vegaskip]

If you have been at sea, especially in the Royal Navy, some of these people may be familiar to you!. Or heaven forbid, recognise your self!

Jim

1. Deck and Engineroom 

2.  Sickbay and Galley 

3.  Lady Stoker! And me !

4.   Skipper. Jimmy the 1 or Chief Office, Exec. Or just an 'Osifer'.

 

 

 

 

Edited November 1, 2017 by Vegaskip

[Vegaskip]

A whaling painting 

The Chase

jim