Wrecks
Some time ago I was given the chance of achieving my very first painting related to sea (oil on canvas 32×46-cm) for the cover of the book “Buques españoles desaparecidos sin rastro” (Spanish ships missing with no hint), by Manuel Rodríguez Aguilar, published by Almena Ediciones in 2013. My good friend Manuel asked me to feature a very particular view of Yute steamer, gone missing after a storm by the end of the 1920 decade. I had to use a photograph whose quality was so really poor and carefully remake shapes and concrete details using some pictures of other similar freighters.
A view from the stern with a quiet sea, Yute steamer is heading to its own fate with some threatening clouds in the background.