Carol Thompson excels at conveying light, depth, and movement in oil on canvas. Her high-key color choices are very popular too!
Thompson’s art was included in the book Contemporary Western Artists –and honored with feature articles in Southwest Art and Stepping Out.
Numerous venues in the West give you opportunities to see [...]
Check out the stylish graphic art prints!
These and other graphic artists’ treatments of river tugs and coastal scenes are part of an exhibit created to improve public access on the Mississippi River in Minnesota. This art event was sponsored by the Mississippi River Fund.
The Fund is a non-profit, raising awareness and money, especially [...]
To give the “tugs” in our blog title more attention, here are three sites with blogs for you to visit. The first in the series also posts a new picture of a tug regularly.
Towmaster: the Masters of Towing Vessels Association Forum blog with a featured “photo-of-the-week”.
Tim’s Times: blog of ship stories and other stuff
Pelican Passage: [...]
Contemporary watercolorist James R. Williamson has dedicated a large portion of his creative energy to portraying the hardworking boats around Bellingham, Washington. He pursues views with a heavy industrial flavor: ferries, tugs, military and commercial craft carrying out their missions.
Williamson’s style employs a strong line element to complement his deftly controlled washes and would [...]
Also tagged artist, Bellingham, commercial craft, ferry, James R Williamson, military craft, tonalism, Washington, watercolorist, working boatEnjoy a visit to Ed Whitebone’s marine photography collection from the 1980’s and 1990’s! His images of working boats from the coast of British Columbia include ships, tugboats, coastal views. This Fraser Valley, BC, artist has a second collection at the same location based on Kodak Instamatic images of the 1970’s.
Whitebone has made an [...]
