Painting waves & rough seas

[pugwash]

My sister in Australia is a budding marine painter and already has a good market. She does big bold oil paintings of gaffers in rough seas. They look lovely but she sells mostly to landlubbers rather than sailors because she can't get the seas right. I've tried to explain in words what is needed but without much success. Could you suggest any paintings I could refer her to? Paintings by Homer Winslow and Montague Dawson are classics, but who else?

Or, for that matter, does anyone have really good photographs not of boats or ships or sunsets but of seas -- pictures that really demonstrate what all of us know and love as the song of the sea? Preferably with another boat in the picture so you get an idea of scale.

Any thoughts will be most welcome. Thanks!

 

[FullCircle]

look at the work of J Steven Dews - he was commisioned for years to do memorial paintings of Cowes Week/RTIR.

I have one of his over my fireplace - a very accurate piece of work.


http://www.artmarine.co.uk/CL_Shop.asp?strAction=Display

 

[Bajansailor]

Have a look also at the paintings by Ultramarini on this Forum - she has painted some very impressive wave scenes!
www.seapaintings.co.uk

 

[saltwater_gypsy]

Wow Banjan, these are terrific waves. I think I'll put on my oilies and have another look!!!

 

[Twister_Ken]

She could poke around these sites:

http://www.marineartists.co.uk/

http://www.rsma-web.co.uk/Gallery.htm

 

[mikemonty]

Turner - THE seascape painter

 

[BobnLesley]

...she can't get the seas right...

Like all painting, it's preperation, preperation,preperation. Lots of rubbing down should get it as smooth, but you'll never get the sub-strata totally dry, so use a water (and salt) tolerant primer, before applying a two-part epoxy or similar. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[Lakesailor]

I knew him vaguely, as a friend was his first art dealer.
He has made a very comfortable living from his great talent. Deservedly so. When my friend met him he wore cardboard in his shoes to stop the rain coming in through the holes in the soles.

 

[catalac08]

there is a painting by Montague Dawson as looking from the deck of an old commercial sized sailing vessel in rough weather - men aloft reefing sails etc, lots of water on deck; the best and most realistic rough sea I have seen in a painting

 

[Beadle]

Yes

I have a copy on the lounge wall, I'm looking at it now.

Looks as if a clew line has come loose and the blocks are likely to hit the man laid out on the yard. See where the two men n the deck are looking.

Now that is a sea.

 

[goosewing]

Hiya Martin, hows the windies and that mutt of yours?

 

[Bajansailor]

Re the Windies and Bajan Mutts

Hiya Sue, a bit of thread drift - its still hot in the Windies, although starting to cool down very slowly, and the tradewinds are starting to hint about returning for the winter..... thankfully no stormy seas this summer like in Ultramarini's paintings!
Oh, and the Mutt is in a strop /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif with me this evening because we didnt go down to the beach.....