Beached Hastings Trawler by Alan Bickley

Like the way your two figures immediately give the size of your great trawler Alan.

Once again a superb sketch Alan , the bit of added colour does so much to the effect. No great detail but you can see what it is and fill in the rest yourself, just what a good piece should do.

Excellent Alan and I agree with Chris, it's good to have the figures to give some scale.

Not just a bit of colour - but the RIGHT colour. I don't know what you'd call it, sort of Loch Ness Monster Brown, perhaps; but it works perfectly. Accuracy - well, accuracy is essential for technical drawings, but not for atmospheric drawings like this one; and anyway, boats are individually built, conform to a general pattern, but are all subtly different.

I hadn’t realised they were so big! Excellent as usual Alan.

Like this !!

Thanks guys… yes Marjorie, some are huge, some smaller, this is a huge one!

Very good work Alan. you make such intersesting shapes with the shadows and blocking in on the subjects you paint.

Like Marjorie, I hadn’t realised trawlers could be so big! Great sketching as usual.

That's a big boat! Fabulous drawing Alan.

Love the subject Alan, beautifully portrayed.

Fabulously expressive!

Good one 👍

Lovely work Alan. An interesting subject from memory; I’m impressed.

Beautifully sketched, as usual.

Lovely work Alan.

Great detail especially as you drew this from memory Alan.