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    vegaskip
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        The Laeisz company specialized in the South American nitrate trade. Their ships were built for speed, and they soon acquired an excellent reputation for timeliness and reliability, which gave rise to the nickname “the Flying P-Line”. The five-masted barque Potosi made the voyage from Chile to England around Cape Horn in 1904 in just 57 days, a record at the time
        W/C 15” X 11”
        [ATTACH]866553[/ATTACH]

        #841068
        Cadfaeltex
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            Nice rendering. Looking at all those fine lines gives my hands the shakes just looking at them.

            #841065
            vegaskip
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                Might be a subject for the ‘Different Strokes’ in the Acrylic forum
                Five separate but related subjects on an A3 canvas.
                Jim

                #841063
                pa-paw
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                    Yours is a fantastic labor intensive work of art. Congrats!:) :) :)

                    http://www.flickr.com/photos/pa-paw/
                    [FONT=Calibri]Photography and Art Work

                    #841064
                    hoylander
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                        Beautifully painted and very effectively put together,Jim!

                        Joan :wave:
                        #841067
                        yahya sryio
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                            Very nice collection.

                            Painting is jealous, and requires the whole man to herself. Michael Angelo
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                            vegaskip
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                                Thank you all. Dead centre of my ‘comfort zone’.
                                Jim

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