Here's the Crow's Nest, from which one would keep a look out for pods of whales and their tell-tale plumes. The crow's nest of popular imagination is practically a small room on top of a mast. Nice and enclosed. These guys, on the other hand, have a couple of planks and a metal hoop. And by contemporary standards, that hoop/railing would have been an almost ostentatious display of workplace safety.This piece is the only one in the series that is more based on photo-reference than drawing-on-location. What can I say. I wasn't prepared to shimmy up a mast with a sketchbook clamped in my teeth for the authentic point of view.
7 comments:
water, water, I love that drawing has Coleridge all over it. Nicely done.
hummmmm....
enjoy looking at your work.
great stuff.
amazing stuff, joel! :)
What the contemporary standard of the crows nest & indeed bosans chair don't put often across is how much you swing about 60' up top.
Nice to see it beautifly conveyed here.
Iv'e done the bosans chair in a fair breeze, not so good, I shall get my first go in a crows nest in Feburary.
Wow! Six replys! Thanks, everybody!
Sim, I'd love to hear more about what you're doing up in a crow's nest this Feburary.
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