Maranatha

Oil on textured panel, 11" by 14"

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Comment by Caryl Park on March 21, 2013 at 5:26: Yes I would like to know the history behind this pretty little boat :o)

Comment by Jessica Futerman on March 21, 2013 at 3:56: Great atmospheric & mood in this painting! Will look forward to hearing more of the story, if you find out.

Comment by Stuart J. Gourlay on March 21, 2013 at 3:10: Thanks Caryl. I didn't know what the name on the boat meant when I painted it but liked it and had to make up the scene since it was sitting up on blocks out of the water. Painting something is all about visualization of how you want it to look--the foreground roses, a background Rembrandt--all in the mind's eye. I am going to have to check out why that boat sitting at the entrance to a marina on the bay has that name so I get the complete story. Stu

Comment by Caryl Park on March 21, 2013 at 2:40: Lovely painting Stuart. it is always in that one little detail that makes the difference. My cousins in Zimbabwe belong to a church called Maranatha.

Comment by Stuart J. Gourlay on March 21, 2013 at 1:49: Thanks Trevor and Sharon. I did not know what Maranatha meant until I looked it up, but liked the name when I saw it on the boat. The fog effect in the distant trees is just scumbled on zinc white with some purple ( dioxazine or UB plus Indian red). Stu

Comment by Sharon Casavant on March 21, 2013 at 1:06: How did you get the foggy tree effect? I would like to try that some day.

Comment by Sharon Casavant on March 21, 2013 at 1:01: Silvana, "Maranatha" - to born - again Christians mean "Jesus is Coming"! AND He is coming back one day to take His redeemed to heaven (the rapture). There is moreto the (true) story, though. It's all in God' s Word (the Bible).

Comment by Trevor Erskine on March 21, 2013 at 0:39: Like it Stu. She sure will float and hold a ton of sand.

Maranatha means "Our Lord has come" or alternative "come lord".

I had a friend belonging to a very good Scottish Choir called The Maranatha Choir. Unfortunately he died quite young.

I visited San Franscisco several years ago, you live in an exciting and beautiful city.

Check out the sunsets from the Naval base, Stunning.

PS Not so sure that Post will take much strain if a storm gets up.

All the best,

T.

Comment by Stuart J. Gourlay on March 20, 2013 at 15:07: Thank you all. I looked through all my old images and couldn't find anything I liked and I didn't want to paint Richard's dingy; so, since I live in a city right on San Francisco Bay (actually the part of the bay that extends north of San Franscisco is called San Pablo Bay), I decided that all I needed to do was go out by the bay and I would find a whole lot of boats out there sitting in shallow water. Well, not in February! So I took a photo of "Maranatha" sitting up on blocks in front of a marina and some shots of marshy bay, put them together, added a little ground fog (there wasn't any that day) and painted it trying to use Richard's techniques as much as possible. For Silvana's question about the name; I have absolutely no idea where it came from and what it means, but now I am interested and will find out. I was going to call the painting "Stuck in the mud" or "Available for charter", but I really liked the name on the boat, so I just painted on the name and used it for the title. The boat is all wood, has a lot of chipped trim paint, and doesn't look too seaworthy; I think it's an old commercial fishing vessel.

Comment by Michael J. Severin on March 20, 2013 at 11:15: Excellent job Stu!!!! like the way you handled the reflections. Pretty nice composition also.