Monday, June 5, 2023

Barge Graveyard


The wild bank of the channel is called Sleightsburgh Spit. This was once a busy passage for barges carrying bricks, coal, and bluestone over the D&H canal to Philadelphia. 

But the railroads killed the maritime traffic, leaving the carcasses of the wooden canal boats to rot in the shallows of the Hudson River near Port Ewen. At low tide you can see plenty of old timbers and iron spikes in the barge graveyard.
Posted by James Gurney at Monday, June 05, 2023

2 comments:

Datsa said...

I love the sand bank colors you have in this painting!

If you don't mind me asking Mr. Gurney, would you advise premixing gouache? In your book, you mentioned premixing even on location to save time, but I believe that was with oil. I just picked up gouache so I have some difficulty mixing colors as I paint, but since gouache dries faster than oil, I don't know if premixing gouache is a good practice.

June 6, 2023 at 4:00 PM
Datsa said...

I love the sand bank colors you have in this painting!

If you don't mind me asking Mr. Gurney, would you advise premixing gouache? In your book, you mentioned premixing even on location to save time, but I believe that was with oil. I just picked up gouache so I have some difficulty mixing colors as I paint, but since gouache dries faster than oil, I don't know if premixing gouache is a good practice.

June 6, 2023 at 4:00 PM

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