Whaling Vessel in Fog Drawn at Age Six

ARTIST: William Louis ("Bill") McDonald Senior.

COMPANY: Argonaut-GreyWolf.

CLIENT: Me.

PURPOSE: I was learning to draw at age six.

SUBJECT: Three-masted American Whaling vessel "Charles W. Morgan .

YEAR: 1968 Summer Vacation.

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MEDIA: I used a blue Pentel felt tip pen.

FROM BILL'S FACEBOOK: GROTON, CONNECTICUT, AUGUST 1968: I was six-and-a-half on a family trip through my mom's ancestral Old New England and GROTON was busy laying down submarine keels and designing fighter plane's via General Dynamics. The family turned me loose aboard the old Charles W. Morgan whaler for around four hours while they shopped on the wharf.

With a single blue marker while climbed up on and sitting on the capstand, I hand-rendered the Morgan in silhouette making minimal headway through Atlantic fog. You can even make out the twin smokestacks of the try works which boiled the whale oil out of cut strips of blubber. The tour guides were completely wigged out. I was an unaccompanied six-year-old whose maternal grandmother later came and fetched me off the deck for our big family dinner with all her sisters.

By 1978 I was drawing galleon ships and by 1986 I was drawing the "Pequod" being rammed by "Moby Dick!"

LOCATION: Groton Connecticut.