The Styles
Ten Styles, One Coast
Monterey Bay in every style, each from the same depth grid. The style changes the drawing; the depths and the figures stay the same.
Open the large editionBathymetric
The sea darkens at every isobath you chose, down to the deepest point in the frame.
Open Water • Reef • Night Sea
Open the large editionChart
Pale water, the shelf tinted, every line marked with its depth: the chart that lives in the boat.
Chart • Slate
Open the large editionContour
Nothing but lines: the depth under the sea, the lie of the land beside it.
Paper • Depths
Open the large editionSurvey
The coast and every isobath in one ink, the way a survey sheet comes off the table.
Ink • Blueprint
Open the large editionLinocut
The sea one solid ink and every isobath cut out of it, the way a block print is made.
Ink on Paper • Paper on Ink
Open the large editionGilt
Gold lines on black or navy: the coast at night from the end of the pier.
Black & Gold • Navy & Gold
Open the large editionWatercolour
Layered washes that pool where the sea runs deepest, and a cool shadow on the hills.
Sea • Dusk
Open the large editionRelief
The canyons and the hills standing out in the light of a sun low in the north-west.
Morning • Evening • Night
Open the large editionOblique
The frame tipped up so the drop reads as a drop: the ground raised, the sheet says how far.
Morning • Night
Open the large editionSatellite
The land from the satellite pass named in the margin, the sea shaded from the depth grid.
Pale Margin • Dark Margin
The Satellite style lays a real pass over the land and draws the sea from the grid. Its source and date print in the margin, with any cloud the pass caught.