Just realised I forgot to post my sketch from the National Maritime Museum a couple of weeks ago. I love this ship. It is a lightship. Trivia: a lightship's birthday is the anniversary of the day the light was first turned on. This one was on duty on the Queensland coast for many years, and now is at Darling Harbour. It is the brightest of bright vermilions. It is one of those things I like to draw at least once a year. My waterbrush was playing up and flooding the paper at times. A warning to me to take a new one on my travels.
I drew this back in 2010,
as seen here, with the light falling on it in different ways. Then I turned one of the sketches into
a solar plate etching which (so far) I have printed in two different colours.
I am always happy to draw this little ship. It has such a strange barrel-like shape that it is always a challenge.
