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Lost at Sea

By Jimmy Johnson

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Here’s more from the “wild art” file. Another project that never got off the ground. Or never left the dock might be a more appropriate metaphor. Look at Janis’ foot—I didn’t know I could draw feet that well! This was drawn about the time of the two pieces in the previous post. For the hardcore sailors among you, the cockpit is a fairly realistic depiction of that on a vintage Tartan 27 sloop I once owned. It was a tough little boat. I sold it to a friend, and it was lost in Hurricane Katrina. Just to illustrate how bad things were, the boat at the time of the storm was in a Bay St. Louis boatyard, “on the hard” as they say. This means it was on dry land, supported by jacks. Still, it was swept away and never seen again.

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217 responses to “Lost at Sea”

  1. sandcastler™ Avatar
    sandcastler™

    Great piece of artwork. Excellent companion to the car logo; hint tshirt material.

  2. Canuckguy Avatar
    Canuckguy

    So really what this can represent is Arlo daydreaming sitting on the couch with Janis snuggling with him.

  3. emeritus minnesota biologist Avatar
    emeritus minnesota biologist

    Janis has real legs. Nice. emb

    OF webcam is still offline.

  4. Lilyblack Avatar

    Good morning, Villagers. Indy Mindy, nice! JJ, agree, nice work on Janis’ feet!
    Debbe, you can put the strips on as often as necessary, the doc was right, it will have to close “by secondary intention,” now. Which as we tell the patients means “it has to heal from the bottom, not the top”. And, yeah, wait for it, “it’ll be healed in about six weeks”. 😀
    Great run this morning, rounds went well, we are back in the office on time, everybody is happy except The Billing Clerk In My Life who is having Man Trouble. Again.

  5. Sylvia in MS Avatar
    Sylvia in MS

    Katrina took a lot from a lot of folks down here in the South. Love the picture. T-shirt?

  6. Lilyblack Avatar

    All is not bad on The Dark Side. I followed a clue (link didn’t work) and found the arc beginning August 10, 2008 and learned a lot more about Gene, Mary Lou, and their daughter. 🙂 What? I was just out of the hospital, I wasn’t reading newspapers.

  7. David in Austin Avatar
    David in Austin

    EMB, I called Yellowstone visitor services yesterday. Apparently, the guy that manages the cameras was out of the office yesterday. The operator had me leave a voice-mail. It seems that he may not be in again today, or there is some other immediate priority. Who can know?
    I miss that small window on the wilds, though.

  8. Jim in TN Avatar
    Jim in TN

    Very nice! I like this one better than the car art.

  9. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Yep. Who cares if the word “art” is not often applied to cartoons? That’s art up there. Though I do wish you were able to devote that much time and effort in detailing Janis’s gams in the daily strips. 😉

    And I for one have no trouble believing your story of the sloop’s fate. I had a friend whose dry docked 40-foot boat has not been found to this day.

  10. Llee Avatar

    Beautiful, Jimmy.

  11. Lilyblack Avatar

    Interesting site which I believe most Villagers would agree with, anti-abstraction and pro-realism in art. http://www.artrenewal.org/pages/ARChome.php Mind you, I don’t agree with everyting he says, but most of it, yeah.

  12. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Call me a philistine if you will, but if I have to spend more than a couple of seconds looking at a work to determine what the hell it’s supposed to represent, then I’m sorry, but it has passed me by as work of visual “art”. Not that I think every painting or drawing has to look like a photograph, but if it looks like a finger painting done by a chimpanzee, it’s wasted on me. No single-black-dot-in-the-middle-of-an-otherwise-blank-canvas-and-call-it-art for me, thank you.

  13. Jerry in Fl Avatar
    Jerry in Fl

    I would definitely like to know how one goes about putting the reflection of the stars in the sea. JJ has invented a new art form-the arttoon. Am I the only one who liked the abstract pictures that you had to stare at until you could see the dolphin or whatever when it turned into a 3D picture?

  14. Ken from Framingham Avatar
    Ken from Framingham

    YES, this beauty would also make a fine t-shirt. Large, please!

  15. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Jerry, by my lights, once you can see the dolphin, it’s no longer abstract. 🙂

    I like most trompe l’oeil works, but I certainly don’t consider them abstract. And perhaps they are more works of engineering than works of art, but I still like them.

  16. Steve from Royal Oak, Mi Avatar

    Somewhere a solitary boat is bobbing up and down on the open seas. At least a part of me wishes that was the case. So many lost so much in Katrina, but small miracles happened all over. When we had high water in Royal Oak, there was a lot of ruined cars, basement furniture and junk, so there was not a lot of angst. However a friend of mine had an irreplaceable collection of running memorabilia that was destroyed. He admitted that had never felt that he would have 6 feet of water in his basement.

  17. Village Loon Avatar
    Village Loon

    I would advise Mr. Ghost to not visit the Mendel Collection in Houston. I am enjoying thus private showing; hope there are more to come.

  18. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    carl g. evers, sample:

    http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A6YcPpq722U/TFrjlRHtLvI/AAAAAAAAAVc/_cBfaYQRyhA/s1600/4860553246_2547459329_z.jpg

    look up book the marine paintings of carl g. evers. beautiful work.

  19. Den in MN Avatar
    Den in MN

    This is an excellent candidate for a t-shirt, IMHO.

  20. Lilyblack Avatar

    I can’t lose this chance to plug for Geoff Hunt, master marine painter, whose paintings graced the covers of my beloved Aubrey/Maturin Novels by Patrick O’Brian:

    http://www.artmarine.co.uk/geoffhunt.aspx

    The featured painting is “HMS Agamemnon Leads the Squadron,” a lovely pic of Nelson’s first flagship

  21. emeritus minnesota biologist Avatar
    emeritus minnesota biologist

    I loved those ‘find the [porpoise] paintings’ [and photos, no?], perhaps mostly / I saw it faster than others did. I’ve not seen a new one in years. Weren’t most of them doctored photos?

  22. emeritus minnesota biologist Avatar
    emeritus minnesota biologist

    Evers’s brown pelicans are pretty good, too. emb

    http://www.jrusselljinishiangallery.com/pages/evers-pages/evers-thumbs.htm

  23. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Munchkin, I have no idea why I thought of you when I saw this photo, but I did. 🙂

    http://2.media.collegehumor.cvcdn.com/32/55/7f7abc8d5fff06bcdff87a7f46948483.jpg

    Someone suggested it might currently be in front of the CDC cafeteria in Atlanta.

  24. Lilyblack Avatar

    Hey, works for me 😀