cat 1

Oil · 2026-09

cat 1, 2026 — oil painting by Ray Patrick

Boats, Seascapes, Oil

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Subject

Moored yachts seen across a marina, their masts standing in a dense forest of verticals, with a dock and a dinghy in the near water.

Composition

The masts fill the whole upper half, no two quite parallel, and the hulls make a horizontal band beneath them. The dock cuts in from one side as a diagonal and the small boats sit low and centrally.

Palette

Cool and silvery — lavender, pewter and dove through the sky and water, with white hulls. Small notes of teal, red and ochre break it up among the boats.

Handling

The masts are single thin pulls of the brush, dozens of them, drawn last over finished paint. The hulls are flat white shapes with one dark stroke beneath each for the shadow; the paint stands thick in the rigging.

Medium and support

Oil, photographed as a page of a portfolio book rather than as the object itself — the binding is visible in the frame.

Signature

No signature visible within the painted area.