Ships in my back yard

For the majority of this project I have been resorting to painting ships from photographs. Industrial ships are  completely new subject matter in my painting- and the Mariners we are following are on the other sides of the worlds with their ships- which makes it impossible to be present.

When wishes come true, I will spend some days - a week or so on one of these ocean going vessels- the ship company will sponsor my stay and painting on their ship - my travel there,  and I will love it, - but until this is realised, I must do my best.

Recently I have noticed a cargo ship at the beach, and than nat coffee, and than it struck me how every day I see huge ships sailing past my northern kitchen windows and going around the Split peninsula to the industrial port.  So really I do have ships to  paint from-. They are not the very ship our sailor friends are on- but some ships which could be of the same kind are passing.

A big wind has risen. The magnificent tempestous dramatic  dark cloudy southern wet winds- which I love to look at, and relish walk past the sea's edge and get covered by waves, and so I picked up my kit and went to the shore.

Here is the ship that ha been dancing around me asking to be painted this week.

 This is my painting set up.

And here is I ready to paint. Freezing wind by the way- thus the fur ..