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| End of the Line I finished this watercolor with white acrylic highlights on the fore and mid-ground boats to create a feeling of weathered working ships in a graveyard of watery "bones". This back-bay fishing fleet of wooden fishing boats (one of which is derelict) crabbed and dredged for oysters in the Chesapeake Bay decades ago. The skipjack sailing vessel in the middle of the painting was part of the fleet of over a thousand in the latter part of the 18th century that dredged for oysters, survived the great depression, and now only about a dozen are left still harvesting oysters on the Chesapeake. The basis for the painting was a black-and-white platinum photograph of Chance, MD taken over 30 years ago by Steve Szabo (Heritage Gone on this website is another of his haunting Eastern Shore series). Because Steve passed away in 2000, Kathleen Ewing granted me copyright permission to use http://www.kathleenewinggallery.com/. The original watercolor is in a private collection but limited edition prints in a variety of sizes on acid-free art paper and note cards are available. |
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