Disappearing Subjects

                                    Ocean Point Marina

When you paint boats in the harbor, it's not uncommon for the boat you picked out to paint to sail away.
But in a boatyard?  I had just finished the drawing of this scene on the watercolor paper when along came a boatyard worker with a cradle and hauled it away to the launching ramp!  I had my easel all set up and the drawing was finished, so I decided to forge ahead.  But I was standing in front of a big empty space, painting a boat that wasn't there, so I got a lot of strange looks!

But the worst case happened a few years back.  I was down on Boothbay Common painting a small Victorian cottage.  Halfway through the painting, a flatbed trailer pulled up, they jacked up the house,  loaded it up on the flatbed and hauled it away!  Now if you can't depend on a house staying put, I ask you, what can you count on??!