Another quick study of bumboat peddlers (the "pirates") hawking their trinkets over the side of the Indian & East Mail Cloudship Anjer while calling at Gibraltar. I really hadn't meant to make this sketch so similar to the last one. I had actually started painting it as I had intended to: a view looking towards the ship from alongside it, but my clunky style of painting does not lend itself well to creating any illusion of depth by subtle graduations of textures and shadows; I need clear lines to suggest depth. The side view was just too flat, and with the lack of details, too confusing as well.
18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on hardboard
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