Miss Otago, on the beach

I went down to the estuary with the laudable intention of painting the shingle banks and sea birds as the tide went down. However, I saw Miss Otago looming above the other vessels, and found her clean lines simply irresistible.

Honestly, this is not obsessive compulsive behaviour. There was another old trawler further along, called "Alfred", that I painted many times, but Alfred was there for years. He has been broken up for some months now, and I was bereft.

Then Miss Otago appeared. Unfortunately she has been hauled out to be cleaned up, before being taken out to deep water and scuttled, probably next month.

I will be bereft of looming trawlers again, so I'm taking every chance I get to paint her en plein air before that irrevocable day.

Yes, I'm painting her tomorrow probably for the last time, and in pastel. That should make an interesting afternoon. Check out my pastel painting tomorrow.



15046. "Miss Otago, On the Beach". Oil on panel. 6x8 in. $100

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