Those of you who know me well. will be aware that on occasion I take my hand towards maritime sculpture, from the discarded scraps of paper from around my desk. So after having just recieved a commision to produce two of the sculptures, it seemd a good idea to share the process with you over the next few weeks. There are two boats on my desk, firstly in the distance is a prety usual nondiscript harbour dingy and secondly a rowing boat from the Shetlands Islands, which is a direct decendant of the Viking longships.

You might notice that the hulls are both clinker built (overlapping) plank on frame conctruction. The lower one shows the frames drying in place. More to follow.

For the purists who might be concerned that my ink work is being neglected; here is an ink of a very cold morning on Exmore, produced from a photo taken a while ago. The idea was to draw this lonely deserted tree against the sky and clouds, all in ink; so how do you draw a light cloured sky, with a black line; quite a tall order?