The first painting in my Waterman Series, this is a portrait painted from life of skipjack captain Stanley Larrimore of Tilghman Island, Maryland. Skipjacks are wooden sailboats designed to drudge oysters from the bottom of the Chesapeak Bay and skipjacks can only be found in the Chesapeake. It's a rough life and takes a special breed to make a lifetime of the work, and there are only a few working skipjacks left in existence.
I painted Captain Larrimore in my studio but placed him in the outdoors, standing on his property ( which was his father's) with the fleet of his family's skipjacks in the background, anchored as they once were in their heydey.
The first painting in my Waterman Series, this is a portrait painted from life of skipjack captain Stanley Larrimore of Tilghman Island, Maryland. Skipjacks are wooden sailboats designed to drudge oysters from the bottom of the Chesapeak Bay and skipjacks can only be found in the Chesapeake. It's a rough life and takes a special breed to make a lifetime of the work, and there are only a few working skipjacks left in existence.
I painted Captain Larrimore in my studio but placed him in the outdoors, standing on his property ( which was his father's) with the fleet of his family's skipjacks in the background, anchored as they once were in their heydey.