#maritime painting

[lionofchaeronea]

Sailboat and Fourth of July Fireworks, Winslow Homer, 1880

[sparklepie]

A couple mini acrylic paintings I've done recently. I took a screen shot in the long dark and tried to paint it, its a little wonky but I'll keep practising.

[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

Joseph Selleny (Austrian, 1824–1875), "The Island of St. Paul in the Indian Ocean", 1868

[eirene]

Flying Fish, ca. 1910 Herbert James Draper

[its-rmstitanic]

A watercolour study in Procreate of 'Into the Night' by E. D. Walker for the 112ᵗʰ anniversary; time-lapses available here and here 💙

[clove-pinks]

A pair of Mediterranean seascapes: a capriccio of a coastal view; and a naval battle. Circle of Orazio Grevenbroeck (1676–1729).

[mycological-mariner]

So I bought this painting of the Cutty Sark in a charity shop for 50p. And on the back it’s got this placard - pretty cool, right? Obviously it’s staying

Obviously the frame is a little busted and it can’t hang but that’s a 10 minute fix.

So I remove the card first thing to save for later and —

It’s a fucking menu. And apparently a really fancy one - it got French words. I’m laughing my ass off because some guy cut out a description of the Cutty Sark from a restaurant menu and stuck it to the back of a painting of said ship. At this point I’m having a blast and joking that “Oh, what’s next, the painting itself is gonna be from the dessert menu, I bet!”

IT WAS THE FUCKING WINE MENU. And this has to be ancient because £1.25 for a bottle of wine?? 20p for a glass?!

So quite a few decades ago some guy stole a menu, took it home, then cut out the painting of The Cutty Sark and it’s description and framed it to presumably hang on their wall. And now it is in my home, on my mantle and whenever I have guests over they’ll go “Oh what a nice picture of a ship!” But they won’t know. Only I will know that it is in fact the front piece of a wine menu. Like. The process behind how this came to be.

I’m keeping this forever.

[geritsel]

Eugen Dücker - seashore-, beach- and seascape paintings

[crystal-john]

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

The Crest of a Wave, Montague Dawson (1895-1973)

[lionofchaeronea]

Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth, J.M.W. Turner, ca. 1842

[saranilssonbooks]

Wholesome gay 19th century sailor couple number 9. 💕

[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

Andreas Achenbach (German, 1815–1910), "Clearing Up, Coast of Sicily", 1847

[eirene]

The Sirens, 1899 Ernst Stückelberg

Mermaid Mondays

[oilpalette]

Searching, 2012

Jeremy Miranda - American, b. 1980

acrylic on wood panel

[clove-pinks]

I'm back from the Fitzgerald Experience at the National Museum of the Great Lakes! It was an interesting experience for sure, with so many connections to local history within living memory. I had no idea that the Fitz was called the "Toledo Express," among other nicknames. The Canadian-born Captain Ernest M. McSorley was living in the Toledo area, as were many of his crew.

Museum ship Colonel James M. Schoonmaker is 600-something feet long, with a 65-foot beam, vs. the Edmund Fitzgerald's length of 729 feet with a 75-foot beam. They are fairly similar Lake freighters in terms of construction and size. The tour highlighted parts of the ship implicated in the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, and oral history collected from Great Lakes mariners.

There was also a copy of the lyrics of Gordon Lightfoot's song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" in the galley, with words highlighted in red that don't match the known history e.g. saying that the Fitz was headed for Cleveland, when she was destined for Zug Island. Lightfoot was close to the families of the crew, and he actually changed lyrics on request and would perform the song differently in concert, although this isn't reflected in popular recordings.

A salty (sea-going freighter) was traveling down the Maumee River during the tour, to great excitement all around.

The museum guide mentioned that all the salties look like this: rusted and decrepit after 10+ years of sea-going service, when a laker wouldn't look like that after 50 years. Built in 1911, Colonel James M. Schoonmaker was actively in use until an economic downturn in 1980.