Part of a continuing series of men and women working on boats, Making Ready 16x24 depicts a young woman preparing the sailboat for launch. I spent time watching her climb all over the boat, and was reminded how our changing times are finally accepting the fact that women are capable of the many jobs considered to be for men only. Agile and confident, she orchestrated the rest of the crew on what they should be doing and how to go about doing it. Matter of fact, yet helpful, she didn't look like a typical "captain", but she acted like one.
From a visual perspective, I love this scene for the contrast of a simple blue sky and open space on one side of the painting vs the complexity on the other side, where ropes and rigging crisscross each other and divide the sky space into a multitude of individual shapes. This composition creates a counterbalance, and represents the true nature of a sailboat by the way it balances with swoops and leanings against the wind.
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