I continued to work on my "Whirlpool" painting and this is how it looked on July 7, 2024. This is my contribution to a special show based on Moby Dick, being held at Porter Mill Studios. I decided to paint a representation of the whirlpool that swallows the ship at the end of the novel. The text that is superimposed on the whirlpool is the last sentence of the final chapter: *"And now concentric circles seized the lone boat itself and all its crew and each floating oar and every lancepole and spinning, animate and inanimate, all round and round in one vortex carried the smallest chip of the Pequod out of sight." On July 7th, I made the lettering darker, I softened the shapes in the water, and began to work on the background (the four corners of the painting). At this point, my painting was still a work in progress, but over the weekend, I dropped the finished painting off at Porter Mill. To be continued.. .
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