Off the Pontoon — Rowing Series | Stroke Side Rower Print

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Launching Off the Pontoon is a rowing art print from the Rowing Series by Alexander Paul Burton, published under the imprint Tremolo A Tiempo. Drawn in Faber-Castell pencil and Japanese sumi ink, the piece looks straight down the bow of a pair as it pushes off from the landing stage, the stroke side rower filling the frame, hands on the handle, cap and sunglasses on for the outing. The V of the bow cuts up the centre of the composition, foreshortened along the boat's long axis, and the greenery and open water sit behind him where the pontoon has just been left. The perspective is the piece's difference. Rowing art almost always shows the boat in profile because that is the easier drawing, but the head-on view down the axis of the shell is the view the crew's coach sees from the launch, the view the boatman sees as the pair leaves the raft, and the view the second rower in the boat will never quite have. The plate hands it over. A considered piece for rowers, coaches, coxes, clubhouses, boathouse bars, home offices and anyone drawn to the parts of the sport that happen before the race and after the finish, when the boat is still being asked to hold its line. Printed on demand by Gelato on museum-grade paper, produced fresh to order and shipped from a facility near you.
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Launching Off the Pontoon is a rowing art print from the Rowing Series by Alexander Paul Burton, published under the imprint Tremolo A Tiempo. Drawn in Faber-Castell pencil and Japanese sumi ink, the piece looks straight down the bow of a pair as it pushes off from the landing stage, the stroke side rower filling the frame, hands on the handle, cap and sunglasses on for the outing. The V of the bow cuts up the centre of the composition, foreshortened along the boat's long axis, and the greenery and open water sit behind him where the pontoon has just been left. The perspective is the piece's difference. Rowing art almost always shows the boat in profile because that is the easier drawing, but the head-on view down the axis of the shell is the view the crew's coach sees from the launch, the view the boatman sees as the pair leaves the raft, and the view the second rower in the boat will never quite have. The plate hands it over. A considered piece for rowers, coaches, coxes, clubhouses, boathouse bars, home offices and anyone drawn to the parts of the sport that happen before the race and after the finish, when the boat is still being asked to hold its line. Printed on demand by Gelato on museum-grade paper, produced fresh to order and shipped from a facility near you.