Beautiful painting, Mike. The boat is the center of interest, but there is still more happening in the painting to move our eyes around and enjoy the rest of the scene and wonder what those people are doing in the background (for those who didn’t see the show).

Sylvia

Love the boat, Mike, and the rain clouds and water are great. I guess you and I are into Shetland.
Bill

Hi Mike. Another excellent painting. The light is fine and I would leave the sky if it were my painting. In terms of composition I think the line of the lighter hill in the foreground and the line of the boat work really well. You’ve got you triangles well worked out.

The boat is very good. Shetland model boats are not all the same. Your one looks like a Ness Yoal which is a Shetland model from the south mainland area of Shetland. Characteristically they were designed to work in the dangerous tidal waters off Sumburgh Head and are sleeker and lower in gunwale in the middle of the boat than most Shetland models. If you Google ‘ness yoal’ you’ll see lots under ‘images’. There is a beautiful example here made by Fair Isle boat building genius Ian Best for the Smithsonian Institute.

https://iscc.marinersmuseum.org/watercraft/ness-yoal/

Lovely work. John

Beautifully done Mike.

Doug

Mike, Nice painting. I am so glad to find out that you, too, have trouble understanding him. Two glasses of wine and I am having to start over at the beginning.

Beautiful painting !