Forced To Retire

fantastic! Great painting JIm

wonderful

The textures on the boat are wonderful! I’m glad you got over your “painter’s block”!

Wow Jim! I am so impressed! I just love your treatment of this old Shrimper. The location is Conn Brown Harbor, Port Aransas, Texas. You have so perfectly done this image justice. Even though sunk and rusting away, you have added a quiet dignity that is priceless. Love it!

wonderful painting! why we love many old things to paint? house, building, old car, old boat etc.

another fantastist painting jim.. this is great work my friend..

Lovely subject, great painting.

just wonderful, when are you taking classes for the wanna bes????

beautiful

Superb.

How did this slip past me….fantastic painting Jum..I especially like how you got the rust colors and water just right…It’s great having others’ photos to inspire us…
well done my friend
kj

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I am still yet to come across one of these boats to photograph…fantastic work again Phillip!

I’m about 6 hours away from Seattle…I hope to make a trip real soon! :D

I love art, awesome work.

Beautiful painting.

A lovely painting. I like your style of painting and how you’ve painted in the light and shade in this.

great work

wonderful ..all your work is wonderful

Amazing work. You are very talented… your paintings are beautiful and impressionable.

Thanks for the visit and comment… it was a great way to get a chance to view your work.

I like this very much Jim, the draughtsmanship is excellent.

I’m not an art critic, all I can draw is stick figures, but to me this is wonderful art. The colors of the boat, rusted and crusty are perfect, the perspective in relation to dock is right on. Excellent!!

Jim… I have been through your portfolio several times but somehow I missed this one! I can smack myself against the head because this is absolutely brilliant art!!

Avril, you know my close friend Carolyn Staut send me the photo to paint this. I really should buy a card and send it to her during her recovery. Hey, I do the same thing in that I’ve gone back to someone’s profile and asked “where did this come from?” LOL Thanks your comments are always very kind.

excellent rendition, and you can feel the drama portrayed within, and the years gone by

This is so awesome Jim…Congrats on making the homepage!!!!!!!

Woooooo Hooooooo Jim! You made the Homepage! Proud of you I am and tickled for you as well. You Rock!

That is a beautiful painting.

I own a painting of Carol’s. It’s lovely, relaxed, welcoming. I give her top billing as a painter, photog and business woman.
This is a lovely piece of artwork, Jim, very well done, and like Carol’s, very easy to look at.

OH what glorious textures ! this is wonderful work !

Great painting!

Brought back a fond memory of my grandfather who used to draw and paint boats and ships. He would have really liked this one! Great composition!

lovely!

a fabluous nautical piece of art Jim…I seem to be be missing some of your work lately for some reason…? not seeing it posted? so will have to check in now and then and see what you have done. I also have to do a commissioned nautical painting for friends overseas have no idea where to start? will have to put my thinking cap on.

oh that will be a big help Jim…mmm what I will do is see if I can get some feedback off them first they are in England and will bubblemail you with details…thank you!!!! yes we are also getting double entries of one uploaded image off people..hope they sort it soon.

This is a good painting. I find zinc gouache, good for highlights.
Interesting rusty wreck – just how I feel! Except when I paint.

I have seen many such boats yachts etc in this situation, the compoisiton of a lone boat is both mounrful and sentimental

What a fantastic painting – you can almost touch the rust – Fab work

This one really caught my eye. The texture screams. I want to reach out and touch the old boat, hear some of its stories of fishing trips gone by. Sparks the imagination. Thanks.

i do love it .,very very good

Beautifully done! Love it! xo

Love the subject matter and the job you did with it.

Wonderful work Jim. Really cool!!!! Great ‘stippled’ effect on the hull (is that what it is called?) of the boat and a wonderful composition. How you watercolourists do this sort of detailed and magnificent work leaves me gobsmacked!!!!

lovely work. very impressionistic! great colours and interesting subject (gosh, I sound like an art teacher!!! hehehe)

Great subject to paint and you did it beautifully…. impressed with your work Jim!

Knocked about a bit – but still afloat – know the feeling! Brilliant capture.