Beautiful stuff by Derek G. M. Gardner, John Michael Groves, Geoff Hunt, Mark R. Myers and Roy Cross. This video deserves wider viewing.
I have an ongoing project of reading all the Aubrey-Maturin novels by Patrick O'Brian. This sure helps the mood.
Puts one in the mind of Dudley Pope, Alexander Kent (who is also Douglas Reeman) and C. S. Forester. And of Herman Melville too.
Here's another artist I've posted about before
Now this is Nautical Art! Would you like the recipe too?
ReplyDeleteAw shucks. Here's the damn recipe.
ReplyDeleteBut mate... where are the ships?
ReplyDeleteThat was very nice, magpie. The artists who did these works are as impressive as the ships themselves. I did get a little seasick at times, tho.
ReplyDeleteThey really have to know their subject.
ReplyDeleteThere's also so much sense of story in these paintings. Some of them are warships but a lot aren't and they beg the question as to where they've come from, and where they were going...
More often than not, the trips were one-way for the passengers. I really like the ones with exotic ports. Gateways to all history.
Good luck on the Aubrey-Maturin thing. I got up to (I think) about volume 16 before my eyes glazed over in the middle of a volume, and I've never been able to open one again. But I loved the first fifteen.
ReplyDeleteWell that's good news...!
ReplyDeleteI read Post Captain (O'Brian's homage to Jane Austen) on my holiday last year and it took most of those 4 weeks, and I don't even have time to read that much normally. It will easily take me 10 years to read the first 15 books, in between reading other stuff...
I've loved what I've read so far though.