Summer vacation art project, first

First day of summer vacation. Resolution: make art every day. Today's project was to attach a ring to BoB (my Chesapeake skiff) for which to attach the painter. Started with a bicycle kickstand. (For odd reasons I have many.)

Bent it into a roundish shape with a hammer.

Squished it with a clamp.

Welded it shut.

And done.

I made this

My sister's family invited me to spend a wonderful week in the Bahamas on their boat. The boat was named after the matron and she loves owls. This was my thankyou.

make something

New in an irregular series. Something I made. I make things compulsively. But it is Okay because everyone should make some art.

Infected

I know when I was infected with the disease. It was in my sleep when I was a very small child. My father came into my room and put this talisman over my bed. This was the last thing I saw before falling asleep and the first thing when I woke up.

The painting hung in my father’s room when he was a child. Today it hangs in my son’s bedroom.
These things can be tough to identify. But it sure looks like Shamrock V, the only remaining wooden J boat.

In hope that someone reading this can corroborate the ID, my grandfather received the painting as a gift from the widow of Marshall Sheppey, a tycoon from Toledo, Ohio who briefly owned the boat pictured and kept it in Miami. He hired Warren Sheppard to paint this portrait