fine art landscape painting

fine art landscape painting
impressionist landscape painting
modern landscape painting
flower landscape oil painting
¡¡¡¡'I really do not care to sit in the high places,' I objected. 'I find life precarious enough in my present humble situation. I have no experience. Mediocrity, you see, has its compensations.' ¡¡¡¡He smiled as though it were all settled. ¡¡¡¡'I won't be mate on this hell-ship!' I cried defiantly. ¡¡¡¡I saw his face grow hard and the merciless glitter come into his eyes. He walked to the door of his room, saying: ¡¡¡¡'And now, Mr. Van Weyden, good night.' ¡¡¡¡'Good night, Mr. Larsen,' I answered weakly. ¡¡¡¡ CANNOT SAY THAT THE POSITION Of mate carried with it anything more joyful than that there were no more dishes to wash. I was ignorant of the simplest duties of mate, and would have fared badly indeed had not the sailors sympathized with me. I knew nothing of the minutiae of ropes and rigging, of the trimming and setting of sails; but the sailors took pains to put me to rights, Louis proving a specially good teacher, and I had little trouble with those under me.