Description: For this painting, I was going for a more realistic depiction of the scene. Whereas some of my other paintings around this time were more impressionistic, I decided to be a little more controlled with my brush strokes to achieve crisper definition. This painting is a composite of various reference images I collected and does not represent a scene taken from the real world. It is a tribute to the area where I grew up. The island in the background is a depiction of Richmond Island, which is situated off the coast of my hometown. I came up with the names of the two boats in this scene. “Two Oh Seven” refers to the area code where I grew up. “Lobsta Boat” should be self-explanatory, owing the misspelling of “Lobster” to the typical Mainer accent.