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| 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.
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The Mystery Ship
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