The hardworking craft crafted by this Seattle-area watercolorist have a unique look: very bright with a colorful, very painterly touch. Her picture information suggests she achieves this by applying watercolor over gessoed paper, an unusual technical choice. Left is “Triton Tug”.
No surprise to learn that Woolf has won many honors for her work and [...]
While Larry Gluck is an artist drawn to a variety of subjects, he has done at least three boat paintings in a manner that I find very appealing and want to share with you. He has used a very limited color palette here (basically, one color, blue), in order to emphasize as much as possible [...]
Tagged art instructor, artist, boat painting, Larry Gluck, watercolorWhen Monterey Harbor was the center of the Pacific sardine industry, a critical factor in that success was the fishing craft constructed by a father and two sons: Angelo Siino, son Raymond, and son Frank, who together were the Monterey Boatworks on Wave Street. The elder Siino emigrated from Sicily and first settled with his [...]
Tagged Angelo Siino, boat builders, fishing, Frank Siino, Isola Delle Femme, Italy, lampara boat, lampara net, mackerel, monterey, Monterey Boat Works, Raymond Siino, sardine [Mike is the figure with the dark glasses.]
Versatile is the word for Mike Hudson! Once a recreational fisherman, he soon found commercial fishing more to his liking. Meanwhile the state of the San Francisco Bay Area salmon fishery clearly was in crisis, and his political skills were needed, organizing fishermen and brokering an [...]
Looking for photos of salmon fishing in Alaska? Alaska-in-Pictures offers some excellent views! It takes an extra click or two: look for the links to “Alaskan activities” and then go to “salmon fishing” and “commercial fishing”.
The painting left is one I made last year of “The Shanbre”, an Alaskan salmon troller.
Carol Lois Haywood
Pacific Marine Artist
At the online art & craft store a few months ago I made this discovery: the toy wooden boats of Jeff Bohrer. This Clatskanie, OR, creator specializes in working boats of the nearby Columbia River. Immediately I had to order one and, having it in hand, began to realize it was not merely a child’s [...]
Tagged bow picker, Clatskanie, fishing boat art, Jeff Bohrer, lobster boat, toy wooden boat, tug boat, Willamette RiverBorn in Kansas, Allen has lived in Idaho since 1974. Her love of watercolors started in first grade and became her full time occupation. She feels her talent benefited from several years’ working for Hallmark Cards Litho Art Department in Kansas.
While working boats are only one of several subjects that she loves, her passion, superior [...]
Tagged Al Brouillette, Frank Web, Gloria Miller Allen, Idaho, Judi Betts, Kansas, Oregon, Robert Earle Wood, watercoloristThe World of the Small Commercial Fishermen: Their Lives and Their Boats by Michael Meltzer is generously illustrated book that captures the fishing industry scene as it was in 1980 from Maine to Alaska. Recently I found a copy at a local used bookstore and enjoyed reading it very much. While it’s not in color, [...]
Tagged boat, bow picker, Columbia River, felucca, fishing, fishing vessel, gillnetter, Mediterranean, Michael Meltzer, san francisco, Scandinavian, small commercial fishermenDavid Thimgan, California maritime artist, 1955-2003, especially known for his painstakingly researched oil paintings of 19th & 20th century lumber schooners of the Pacific Northwest. He was like many other maritime artists, a stickler for historical and geographical accuracy. But most of his antiquarian-like works go far beyond their often wooden technique and repetitious [...]
Tagged California, David Thimgan, June Carey, lumber schooner, maritime artist, Pacific Northwest