Painting: Tug Boat

TUG BOATS are perhaps the most unglamorous of all the boats. not as big as luxury ships, not as beautiful as yachts, and not as fast as speed boats. They look ugly, they’re small, and not as pretty to look at as other boats. Yet,  they get the job done and are very useful. They help park ships quadruple their size,move industrial barges, lead Billion Dollar warships and tow Oil rigs. Tugboats are highly maneuverable, and its various propulsion systems have been developed to increase maneuverability and increase safety.
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I haven’t painted in a long while (traditinally, that is), and getting bacvk to it takes a lot of drive and inspiration just to get back that passion that used to burn infinitely within me. But I’m glad that i did. Since getting back to painting and smelling paints out of tube and seeing hues brushed on textured paper is kind of liberating– almost a healing process for me. It has its different effect ,different on howthe way photography gives me a different pesonal fulfillment or how poetry has that reflectional effect within me. i didn’t realize how I needed that feeling until I realize how I lost it. and just like that, the hunger is back. Anyway, the above painting is a continuation of my painting urge, that emanated from thinking of painting something so common but are more than what they seem to look or being perceived. This is the third one i’ve painted this month. The first one is the Banana still life i posted on Flickr, and a location painting in Chinese garden (will post that here soon).

Hope you like it. cheers.