Artwork » Ged sails toward Roke

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Category & Material: Painting, Watercolor
Date: 5/2006     Size: 8 x 8 in
Description: This piece is based on an oil painting by Willem van de Velde II (the younger) called "The Gust". As I was painting this, I was listening to an audiobook recording of Ursula K. Leguin's "A Wizard of Earthsea" and now picture this painting as an illustration of Ged trying to reach Roke. The wind and sea always seem to fight him.