There is nothing more beautiful on the seas than a fully-rigged Tall Ship with all masts flying ripping its way through the ocean.
Darrell has broken painting Tall Ships into several core building blocks, spanning over 30 hours of video instruction. Each video in the series covers one of these core building blocks. In each lesson Darrell spends over two hours teaching and demonstrating one technique after another.
Preparing To Paint Tall Ship Video Lesson
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Sails Video Lesson
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Rigging Video Lesson
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Ship Shapes Video Lessons
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The Cutty Sark Video LessonA Clipper ship is an extremely fast wooden, 3-mast, small cargo tall ship with square rigging (sails) that was quite popular during the middle third of the 19th century beginning around 1943. A transatlantic and transpacific ship, the most common use was shipping trade products from England to its colonies and China, as well as the New York to San Francisco routes. Ship owners regained their investment typically within one round trip. The Clipper essentially embraced the romance and passion of sailing during its lifetime for many Americans and British.
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The Flying Cloud Video LessonsThe Flying Cloud is one of the most famous clippers of all time. It’s Captain, Creese, often brought his wife on the New York to San Francisco route. She served as the ship navigator, which was unheard of in those days. Yet twice she broke the world record for the fastest time between New York and San Francisco.
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The Mighty Clipper Video LessonsRelaxing in Gloucester, MA one evening my wife and I happened to come across an elegant little café in which the owner had a large number of ‘scaled’ ship models on display. I was extremely fascinated by the Flying cloud model and took photos from every conceivable angle. In this video lesson you’ll paint the rear view of a clipper ship thereby completing ‘your walk about’ the clipper ship.
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2-Mast Brig Video LessonsThe Brig is generally a 2-mast, squared rigged tall ships whose use has been traced as far back as the 17th century. Use of this ship has been either naval combat or as a merchant cargo ship. It is fast and maneuverable. This latter trait made the Brig quite attractive as a naval vessel carrying 10-12 guns. Although quite a popular pirates’ ship, very few American or Caribbean pirates had Brigs. The problem with the Brig is the large crew required.
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Top Sail Schooner Video LessonsSchooners evolved from a number of 2-masted, gaff-rigged vessels in the late 1600s. They quickly became the vessel of choice for coastal voyages. They carried a respectable amount of cargo and required few men in the crew. Most schooners were working ships, but a number of very wealthy businessmen outfitted them as luxury crafts for pleasure and travel. Ships did not need a second mast unless they were 50 feet or longer, thus the schooner is the low–end of Multi-mast Tall Ships. They were called sloops or cutters if the ship size could only support one mast.
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5-Mast Bark Video LessonThis ship is also known as a barc or barque. From 1605 until today, people have had difficulty defining exactly what is a bark. It typically meant any 3-mast plus ship which didn’t fit the definition of other Tall Ship categories and had a certain sail plan (arrangement of sails). The bark required a small crew, held a good cargo and could outperform a brig or a schooner. To help with speed, 4- and 5-mast versions of the Bark were built in the 1800’s. Many have survived to this day. The optimum tall ship is the 4-Mast Bark, according to many ancient seamen. This painting illustrates
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Pirates Ahoy! Video LessonWe all remember Peter Pan and his Captain Hook’s valiant pirates. Every young man I know wants a pirate ship painting. The golden era of Pirates in America lasted only about 75 years beginning in 1650 and ending in the mid 1720s with the death of Blackbeard. Legend claims Blackbeard to have nearly 200 followers and a largest fleet of pirates ships, one 10-gun brigantine, a 12-gun brigantine and a 42-gun retrofitted French merchant gun, Blackbeard’s Queen Ann’s Revenge.
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USS Constitution Video Lessons
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