The recipient of "BEST OF SHOW" award in the Missouri Watercolor Society's Member Show.

Maybe I should have named this painting "Three Cheers for the Little Tugboat" but it was the cranes in the shipping port that really attracted me to this landscape. My husband and I were traveling across Puget Sound on a ferry when this port became visible across the water. The large structure of the cranes and the rainbow hues of the crates stacked at the port are what caught my eye. I had fun using very wet and soft washes for the background hill and down into the crates at the port. I left the soft background to provide a sense of distance, arial perspective. The crates were altered only with a few hard-edged box shapes to provide a hint of definition to them. The remainder were left for you to envision.

Arrives in a 16" X 30" brushed silver frame.
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