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Posted on November 18, 2006 @ 12:18 pm by massimo | Filed under: ancona, blog, fun, people, ukiyo-e, wordpress

sailingship ancona travel illustration aynaku

 

My grandfather was born in 1898. In his younger days he watched more than once the sailing ships at anchor in our hometown harbour. In his spare time he enjoyed oil painting, wasn’t so bad a painter and sailing ships where among his favourite subjects. According to my mother, his daughter, I was then a rather scornful kid and it seems that my grandfather only had the power to cool me down. In the memories of my childhood there is actually a beautiful drawing of a Spanish galleon that he presented me once. That valuable paper got lost somewhere, but sailing ships has been the number one subject of my early doodles too, (perhaps because of the Mendel’ Laws ), indeed a real obsession! So this is my personal thanksgiving to my old dear relative who died in the early seventies. And maybe this imaginary vessel of mine somehow correlates with the anchoring of the Mayflower at Cape Cod…

Illustration Friday’s topic is: Thanksgiving

 

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18 people have left comments

Very nice tribute.
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e wrote on November 18, 2006 - 3:47 pm CET

beautiful illustration.

ag wrote on November 18, 2006 - 4:46 pm CET

Beautiful.
Your episode and the reference to the history are interesting.

kuriyama wrote on November 18, 2006 - 6:14 pm CET

Beautiful style!

Marci wrote on November 18, 2006 - 7:36 pm CET

Cool illo.

Michelle Lana wrote on November 19, 2006 - 2:38 am CET

Thanks for stopping by! Oh yes, I forgot lechon.. :) Good times back home! Take care!

Michelle Lana wrote on November 19, 2006 - 4:16 pm CET

I like how you put in one sail with stripes!

Caroline wrote on November 19, 2006 - 4:38 pm CET

great lookin ship

michael dailey wrote on November 19, 2006 - 7:28 pm CET

what a beautiful sentiment to go with your fine sailing vessel!!! Great work!

valgalart wrote on November 19, 2006 - 8:12 pm CET

a very touching post and excellent illo! fantastic sailing ships

lu wrote on November 19, 2006 - 11:47 pm CET

Nice! I think this is one of your best ever. :-)

Willie wrote on November 20, 2006 - 12:30 am CET

nice tribute! happy thanksgiving!

isay wrote on November 21, 2006 - 8:49 am CET

excellent work!

Halloweenville wrote on November 21, 2006 - 9:58 pm CET

beautiful style!

roland wrote on November 24, 2006 - 3:16 am CET

This is my favorite post of yours. Not only is the artwork a wonderful study in contrasts, the story is quite moving. How lucky you were to have this childhood experience in this place with your grandfather. And to share his gift for art. Just beautiful!

Amy Zaleski wrote on November 26, 2006 - 11:42 pm CET

I’ve always loved ships too.. and pirates! Where’s yer crew, Capt’n?

ldahl wrote on November 28, 2006 - 7:04 am CET

Beautiful one here!

A R V I N D H wrote on December 8, 2006 - 11:22 pm CET

great picture, I have a special relation to sailship illustration too since I was a young boy!

uvor wrote on December 24, 2006 - 12:23 am CET

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