St Mary's Conquest at 4pm

So when the St Mary's Conquest sailed away 2 hours into my painting on Wednesday I had got most of the form laid in but little of the detail. I had taken a reference a photo but with only a standard lens so that would only get me so far, besides being not in the spirit of the Plein Air discipline. So I decided to make the ship the background and to create a foreground screen with the chain link fence (which I had, till that point, decided to omit). The fence posts were painted on location….and the chain link took almost all night.
Here's the finished piece as exhibited in my first grouping of paintings at Friday night's opening. Click on the image to see it larger on your screen.

St Mary's Conquest at 4am