FLORIDA DUNES IN COLOR

Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida,  8.5 x 15.5 inch ink, watercolor and colored pencil by George C. Clark   AVAILABLE

Here is the full color version of a drawing I made on-site in Florida recently. 

JEKYLL ISLAND, GEORGIA

Where the Pirates Came Ashore, 8.5 x 14.5 ink and watercolor by George C. Clark    AVAILABLE

I drew this on Jekyll Island, one of the southernmost of the barrier islands along Georgia's Atlantic coast a few weeks ago.  It was an overcast day and in fact it rained while we were indoors having a late lunch of grilled freshly caught shrimp.  Afterwards we drove around the island and I found this spot to draw.  It looked like a sleepy tropical backwater and it felt like I was creating an illustration for a story like Treasure Island or Captain David Grief, so I gave it an appropriate title.  I had about finished the drawing when a gigantic ship came down the channel between the island and the Georgia mainland visible on the horizon.  It turns out that is a deepwater channel linking the port of Brunswick to the Atlantic Ocean.  The ship was as big as a container ship, but instead of being stacked with containers it was a big enclosed box with a huge hatch on its stern.  I had never seen anything like it, but I live in Chicago where we don't see many oceangoing ships.  When we drove back to Jacksonville I saw a similar ship docked further up the estuary next to a huge lot filled with thousands of brand new cars.

The Mystery Ship