Artists who love the sea and dream of capturing every aspect of its beauty will treasure this lavishly illustrated guide to painting boats, skies, and picturesque harbors. Written by an award-winning artist and teacher with decades of experience in the genre, this step-by-step guide covers every topic from art materials and equipment through composition and painting techniques. Seasoned artists and novices alike will appreciate the author's simple, yet authoritative style. In clear, nontechnical language, he discusses the structure of boats, offers advice on choosing a subject to paint, and shows how to avoid the pitfalls that can await painters of the sea. On its own, or as a companion volume to Ballinger's Painting Surf and Sea, this volume will inspire any artist with the desire to produce beautiful seascapes. Includes eighty-five black-and-white illustrations and an eight-page insert with nine color illustrations.

Learn all the tips, tricks and techniques you need in order to paint beautiful scenes of boats and harbours in this inspiring and practical book. Terry Harrison explains that you don't need to be an expert on all things nautical to paint great boats and harbours, you just need to learn to paint what you see using the advice and exercises in this book. There is excellent advice on using photographs, painting reflections, rigging, sails, jetties and harbour walls, as well as boatyard clutter, beaches, estuaries, figures and all the varied moods of the sea. There are then 6 beautiful step-by-step projects including a tall ship at sea, Greek boats by a sunlit jetty, a river harbour, a sparkling lake, a ship at sunset and a harbour village.

Here is the most comprehensive guide now available on the enormously popular subject of marine painting. Written by one of the most venerated seascape painters in America today, Painting Sea and Shore shows amateurs, students, teachers, and professionals how to paint every type of marine subject. Combining two earlier works by Harry R. Ballinger - Painting Boats and Harbors and Painting Surf and Sea - this new, augmented edition literally is two books in one. Separate chapters are devoted to subjects such as materials and tools; composition; perspective; colors; wave action; skies; planning and executing seascapes; rocky shores; sandy beaches; open sea; boats; harbors; planning and executing harbor paintings; daytime and nighttime subjects; ships at sea and along the coast; painting on the spot; painting in the studio; and practice subjects for the reader. In a series of painting demonstrations, Mr. Ballinger reveals how the marine painter can master the sea and shore, in all its rich variety, in oils. Outstanding examples of the author's work appear throughout the book in color and halftone. This rich pictorial content will appeal to the author's countless admirers, who will want to own a gallery of his work. -- from dust jacket.

The following items of equipment for harbor oil spill cleanup operations were evaluated: a power assistance unit for deploying and retrieving boom, a 20-foot utility boat, a 28-foot flattop boat, three boom mooring systems, a dust abatement attachment for a sorbent distributor, and the associated connectors, shackles, and lines. A description of the test program, the test results, and recommendations for deployment, use, and retrieval of the equipment are presented. Manpower and time measurements for deployment and retrieval were made. Deficiencies in equipment, as observed, and methods to remove the deficiencies are described.

Since the early 1970s, experts have recognized that petroleum pollutants were being discharged in marine waters worldwide, from oil spills, vessel operations, and land-based sources. Public attention to oil spills has forced improvements. Still, a considerable amount of oil is discharged yearly into sensitive coastal environments. Oil in the Sea provides the best available estimate of oil pollutant discharge into marine waters, including an evaluation of the methods for assessing petroleum load and a discussion about the concerns these loads represent. Featuring close-up looks at the Exxon Valdez spill and other notable events, the book identifies important research questions and makes recommendations for better analysis ofâ€"and more effective measures againstâ€"pollutant discharge. The book discusses: Inputâ€"where the discharges come from, including the role of two-stroke engines used on recreational craft. Behavior or fateâ€"how oil is affected by processes such as evaporation as it moves through the marine environment. Effectsâ€"what we know about the effects of petroleum hydrocarbons on marine organisms and ecosystems. Providing a needed update on a problem of international importance, this book will be of interest to energy policy makers, industry officials and managers, engineers and researchers, and advocates for the marine environment.