I've been so busy with painting the cat, that I've neglected to actually put up new photos. So, here goes:
"An ungainly craft looking precisely like a backwoods' sawmill mounted on a scow and set on fire." From Robert Fulton and the Clermont by his Granddaughter Alice Crary Sutcliffe, 1909
"A curious looking thing that... would frighten some of the Old Dutchmen half out of their wits. They will conclude the enemy is coming in earnest with a machine to blow them all up!" Catherine (Mrs. Samuel Latham) Mitchill to Margaret Miller 17 August 1807
"Bob has had many a bee in his bonnet before now, but this steam folly will prove the worst yet!" Jonathan Swift Livingston about Chancellor Robert Livingston
He looks so much more lively with eyes:
First, some working photos... The bottom of the cat (the water), will feature quotes from the 19th and early 20th centuries about the steamboat. In these photos, I am painting on the quotes (a time consuming process!)
"The whole country talked of nothing but the sea-monster, belching forth fire and smoke." From Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made by James D. McCabe 1870
"The whole country talked of nothing but the sea-monster, belching forth fire and smoke." From Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made by James D. McCabe 1870
"An ungainly craft looking precisely like a backwoods' sawmill mounted on a scow and set on fire." From Robert Fulton and the Clermont by his Granddaughter Alice Crary Sutcliffe, 1909
"A curious looking thing that... would frighten some of the Old Dutchmen half out of their wits. They will conclude the enemy is coming in earnest with a machine to blow them all up!" Catherine (Mrs. Samuel Latham) Mitchill to Margaret Miller 17 August 1807
"Bob has had many a bee in his bonnet before now, but this steam folly will prove the worst yet!" Jonathan Swift Livingston about Chancellor Robert Livingston
And some progress shots...
He looks so much more lively with eyes:
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