High and Dry

High and Dry

24" x 12" Oil on RayMar Cotton Panel

Contemporary Landscape

One of my favorite things to paint are old boats with lots of age, character and history.  You can see it all in the pealing paint, the weathered and tattered flags, and the fact that it is "docked" up on land, abandon. We found this one beached and out of commission on the island of Naxos.  I have painted it three times now, and every time I get excited, looking at the details in the surfaces and especially the Greek flags.  I was painting with brushes, and once I got to the battered wood, I pulled out my palette knife to get some texture on the boat.

High and Dry is finished, and very wet.  It is sitting on an easel in the studio.  I hope to varnish and frame it up.   (P.S. Thank you to Sharon, one of my studio mates......for telling me that the boat looks high and dry.  That really struck a cord with me.  Thus, the name of the painting..."High and Dry")!  Thanks for looking at my art...Kay