Back to the Boneyard

I'm inextricably attracted to boats - in the water or maybe even more alluring on the hard.

So, once again, I felt compelled to trespass onto the boat workshop grounds on the edge of Marysville, and snoop around a bit.

Oh, yes, I am a sailor, but here's a wee confession, I  love anything that floats, but real working boats ...deep seaworthy  steel hulls, purposeful vessels that earn their way, have particular appeal.

Amsterdam Barges

On the heels of my post about opening my sketching valves and letting the ink flow on the trip to Amsterdam, these individual boats were the next step.  I have never met a boat I didn't want to draw, but do recognize that they are much easier to draw as side-on elevations than in perspective.

I started into a few looking down from bridges and was not happy, so moved myself to a position just looking across the canals to the boats on the other side.  At this point, I wasn't even tempted to add the houses behind the canal and had fun knocking of a page of boats at a time, then painting the batch.