'Halifax Shipping Lane : March 2009'oil on canvas
24" x 24"
$ 925
This is a the second time that I have painted this image. The first time was for a show a the Secord Gallery in Halifax in April of 2009. It was the original shipping lane image and I felt that I wanted to revisit it.
The image depicts the Zim Mediterranean (Zim Container Services) and stays truer to the actual day: the boat, in some sort of quarantine sits in the distant background to the left of the ship, while the on-coming container vessel makes its way towards the channel. At the time I wasn't tracking the dates and time of the ships as they passed so I have no idea the day that I passed by the boathouse.
I don't usually write about the art making process, but I feel it is worth nothing that I thought I had completed this painting abot 2 months ago. However, once I finished the entry from last week (the larger Hapag-Lloyd image with the circles in the background) I revisited this painting and concluded that it needed re-working. I re-did the ocean and added the ships in the background. I also played a bit with the main character's details and the contrast of the ocean compared to the ship's hull.
