I am delighted to be able to say to Iain Ballantyne (Author of Hunter Killers ISBN 978-1-4091-4418-2), thanks for including the article and picture about my painting for Pete Goss in your presitgious Magazine Warships International Fleet Review.
Month: January 2014
Linkedin?
I find Linkedin very helpful. Sometimes one can connect via Linkedin when one’s email system is having a wobbly.
Today I was connected to the renowned yachtsman and adventurer Pete Goss, see petegossprints.
Tides and currents in Plymouth Sound; painting progress.
Plymouth Sound … s
There was a time not so long ago when the calm of Plymouth Sound was shattered by the roar of aero engines at full throttle gunfire and the whomps of bombs being dropped as a gaggle of Messerschmitt Me Bf 109 ‘s attacked. I’m working on that for a cover for the next book by David J B Smith (best known for “Being Silent They Speak“, an excellent read), here is today’s progress…
Plymouth Sound never looked like this!
Quai St Jaques, a weir d problem
Logs
Logs, that is what is on my mind. Not the ship or Captain slog starship sort, I mean the down to earth made of mucky real treewood sort. An offer of help would have been accepted provided you had some old cloths.
To qualify you would have to enjoy physical exercise and be able to sing the lumberjack song from Monty Python while we worked.
A busy day out and about…
The day started with an email from the author David J B Smith who has discovered some new information that effects the painting we are working on for his next book cover, more of that later and on my blog.
Here is an image of the under painting, we still have time to change many details and of course the colours will be much refined.
New drawing
Richard Branson in the Italian news…
My painting of “Virgin Atlantic Challenge 2” available as a signed print has’ resurfaced’ in another guise.
With a little help from Alan Toze of Adaptgraphics (Plymouth) I’ve been busy helping an Italian journalist who is preparing an article about Richard Branson for the marine magazine www.altomareblu.com ….