Colourize Project: Tugboat

Colorized version from two years ago of a tugboat between the two breakwaters heading out from Port Taranaki.

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Here's a set of three sketches of a fishing boat out of water getting some kind of work done on it. (In the August sketch, it's not the boat in front on the left.) I've done one per month so it's been there for a while now.

Boats Bananas Missions & Planes

 Beautiful crisp winters day after a wild week.  Enjoyable sketching near the port.

Pukekura Park banana palms

Brian outside the library

 San Capistrano Mission - southern California

Griffith Observatory - near Hollywood sign

Zapote mortuary urn 600 - 900 AD - at the wonderful Palm Springs Art Museum

Gull winged Corsair - my dad worked on armaments for these in the Solomons in WWII (drawn at the Palm Springs Aviation Museum - ideal spot as so dry - nothing deteriorates)

P-40 Warhawk fighter - used in Bougainville where my dad was in the air force in WWII

Colourize Project: Security Pipe

The marina off the breakwater at Port Taranaki has a weird gate that seems to be a large steel pipe with a door cut into it. Here's the colour version of a sketch from a few years ago.

Regatta in the distance.

What a glorious afternoon for sketching after all the rain we've had. The sea was blue, blue, blue and sparkling in the sunlight. I walked along the foreshore walkway and saw the view looking back to the port. There was a sailing regatta underway just visible in the distance.

I decided to try less drawing, more painting, and this was the result!

 

Boats Boats

Through the fence near Port Taranaki

Taupo

A few days away in a different location , Taupo - so out with the sketch book., Artline 0.3 drawing  pen and 6B pencil..The black Ford convertible , a classy sports car  of its day was in town and I took a walk to the marina in time to see the Ernest Kemp with a head of steam taking tourists out onto the Lake . MLB

Boat Launch

It was early morning down at the port and there were non-stop boats being launched. These crusty sailors have serious skills. I was watching them back a trailer into the water, dump the boat with a pilot on board and go park... all in one motion. It was like scrambling a squadron from the deck of an aircraft carrier. I drew the dock first and then was going to draw a launching in behind it, since they were mostly going in the water on that side. When it came time to sketch the boat, I started to notice how little time I had for each one. The good news (for me) was that this one boat had engine trouble. They had to put it back on the trailer and have a look at it. Without a motor it actually took quite a while to get back on to land. When I finished the dock after that, the same guys put the boat back in the salt water and they were away. All's well that ends well.

King Tugboat

The tide was super low this week - a king tide. The floating docks were barely above the bottom when I drew this. I was watching a couple of tugs guiding a large ship in to port. When the tide was in, it was very in. It washes up rocks, driftwood and plastic debris on to the shore and the coastal walkway.

Port Taranaki

Port Taranaki is home  to Breaker Bay  with seaside cafe's , boating and fishing clubs and well as the usual shipping stuff.  It is the main port for NZ's off-shore oil and gas drilling program.   In this 10 min.  sketch I've tried to illustrate the height contrast with the breakwater, the outer islands  and boats at anchor in the harbour.  MLB

Dry Dock

The long wait to get back in to the water.  Port Taranaki

Exocet

Here's a fishing boat that is double parked to the main launching dock. I'm not sure why since there were other places to berth to. The sailors had to climb to the larger diving ship and then to the dock to get supplies loaded. Important things like fuel and hot lunches from a nearby restaurant. About halfway through this one the ropes were untied and it sailed away. This is a bit worse than when cars do this.
The name Exocet has the same as an anti-ship missile and is French for 'flying fish'. I guess this is a good name although this doesn't seem to be a particularly fast vessel.

Salt Air

Battered commercial  fishing boats parked up over the weekend.

on a trip to Waiheke Island- the secluded bays and old boat sheds

it was a lovely trip ,with friends, to this bay. couldn't help but get the pens out...

Tombow colour, water brush and 0.4 fine drawing pen on 300g paper..

Boats and More Boats. Lee Breakwater near The Bach.

On a scorcher of a day we went sketching at the Lee Breakwater. I arrived early and tried to catch the chaos at the boat ramp.

I then went up the hill to check out the view and sketched more boats.

Here are a couple of pictures I took of a glorious view on a glorious day!