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Pen and Ink Prior to the advent of rail transport, the poor condition of New Zealand roads created a constant demand for shipping. Sailing craft worked all the coastal ports throughout the North and South Islands, and Stewart Island, until ousted by steam. Huge amounts of timber, from the hazardous Hokianga and Kaipara Harbours, were shipped across the Tasman to Sydney and Melbourne by sailing vessels which returned laden with coal from Newcastle. This drawing is of the brigantine Breeze, built in 1981 by Ralph Sewell and now a key working exhibit at Voyager, the National Maritime Museum. She is a replica coastal trader, typical of vessels at the turn of the century. The Jessie Niccol, built in 1872 at Niccol's Devonport yard, and James Barbour's two famous vessels the brigantine Aratapu (1878) and the topsail schooner Huia (1894) were similar ships. "Under Way" is the final study in a series of six pen and ink drawings of New Zealand colonial life. To replicate the original artwork, the drawing has been printed using only black ink on archival quality paper.
For around fifteen years,
up until the mid 90's, I worked almost exclusively in pen and ink using a
stipple technique, known colloquially as "pointillism". These drawings,
each taking hundreds of hours to complete, were done entirely in very fine
dots using a 0.18mm nib.
Price framed: $395 including delivery in New
Zealand
Price unframed: $250 including delivery in New
Zealand
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