Thinking of Crescent City, California

 

“However baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder him, and pulverize the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make; nevertheless, by the continual repetition of these very impressions, man has lost that sense of the full awfulness of the sea which aboriginally belongs to it.”-Moby-Dick, Chapter 58 by Herman Melville

 

Thinking of an early morning spent waiting at the Brother Jonathan Park and overlook in Crescent City, California.

 

Sleepy and sitting in the car drinking hot chocolate as we watched the sea. We got out of the car and explored the small park across the street not knowing until we were standing there looking at the stones that this was actually a cemetery.

 

(More on the Brother Jonathan steamer here.) 

 

Supplies:

Journal I made using a discarded, hardcover book with  100 lb Accent Opaque card stock sized Working size (book closed) 9 3/4 x 8" (Repurposing a journal I began in January.)

Acrylics: Holbein, Sennelier, Utrecht, Charvin and Golden (heavy body)

Brushes

Painting knives

Princeton Catalyst Tools

Looked at:

Edvard Munch

Enrique Martinez Celaya

Reading:

Francis Bacon Revelations