Sawyer Glacier Fjord, Alaska Oil Painting

After a Day in the yard cleaning up debris from the storm, I decided to finish up an oil painting I had been working on for a while but I had trouble bring to its conclusion.  I am about 85% happy with it now and will leave it alone for a week or two and see if I then think I need to tweak anything in it.  This is a point with Spruce trees in the Sawyer Glacier Fjord in Alaska.

Tugboat, part 4

Back to the Tugboats, this was an experiment with markers of an old style Tug.  It was something I ran across in a demonstration of marker techniques and I did it also as practice.

Sloop Sailing ship

More practice pencil drawing, this is a Sloop sailing down wind under full sail.  This has been part of the my practice for the last few nights.

Steam Engine

This is a pencil sketch exercise I have been working on for the last few nights.  So my image is not an original but it is for me to practice and improve my drawing skills.  The benefit is I really do like to draw trains, along with other industrial devices and modes of transportation.  I am only limited by my time and skill.  I am working on increasing both.

Happy Father's Day!

So I was blessed with two Dads.  One was my biological Dad, Richard Suitts (Passed) and the other my Step Father, Richard Brandt, who raised me like his own since I was about two years old.  So I have been very lucky to have them both and I used their example for my children.  This is a lighthouse in Chicago and it is drawn from a photo, my Dad, Richard Brandt took last summer.

Whaling Ship

The wife and I recently went to Mystic Seaport in Connecticut.  At the museum they have the Whaling ship, Charles Morgan, the oldest whaling ship still in existence from the 1840s.  So while this is not the Morgan, it is a Whaling ship from a book on the industry.  I find the ships and the tales fascinating and repulsive at the same time.  I admire the handwork and courage of the men on these ships, it is just unfortunate they made their living killing whales and cutting them up.  I really liked the artwork from the book and used it was a teaching device with pen and ink.

Yacht with sails

This is a pen and ink drawing of a yacht with its sails fully filled and making way to its journey's end.  I don't remember where I got this picture but it is not one I took but it was a bit of an experiment in using the ink to depict the darks and lights.  The sailing ships always have great bits of details to make sketches more interesting.