Fish Pond Plan View

These are always fun and rewarding.

Oil on canvas 24"X24"

buy this perhaps and why not

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A bit of Avalon

Oil on canvas 8"X16"

$225 free shipping

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Cone Flowers (SOLD)

Oil on panel 6"X8"

Sometimes I do a little painting like this and  manage to sell it before I post it. Thank you, Lord for everything. 

Last spring on a warm morning my dog was barking insistently at something on the other side of the fence. I came closer and noticed a decent size water moccasin as still as a stone coiled with it's cottony white mouth agape with fangs showing. The snake stayed in that position as I managed to distract my dog and avert  what was sure to be death of something, either the snake or the dog, or both.

 As I was leaving my home in my pickup one day this summer I noticed that water moccasin in the road in front of me, offering itself as roadkill for my pleasure. Another car was coming up from behind me and I was sure that if I swerved to avoid killing it, the car behind me would certainly take that opportunity. I stopped in the middle of the street and got out of my car and gently urged the snake into the woods next to my house.

Perhaps a week ago,  I witnessed an event in nature that is work remarking. I am aware that every winter for years a particular blue heron comes to spend time along the water's edge near my house. Some mornings I find him perched on one leg on a piling in my back yard. I saw him last week across the canal. He stood next to the bulkhead with what appeared to be a catfish in his beak. I looked closer and saw it was not a fish, but what I am sure was the snake I had twice spared in recent months. The heron banged his beak and the snake coiled around it several times against the bulkhead and over the next 5 minutes the bird swallowed the snake whole.

I witnessed the wonder of life and death in that moment, and I am grateful for it.

this painting is sold.

The 730

Oil on canvas 18"X24"

no explanation is forthcoming.

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I would like to sell this to somebody that reminds me of you.

Marsh LIght

Oil on panel 11"X14"

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$250 free shipping 

Egret

Oil on canvas 8"X16"

$225 

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Laffer Gulls (SOLD)

Oil on panel 11"X14"

I did this painting a while ago, like Dec. 2017. I sold this in a gallery in Duck.

Long Neck Egret (SOLD)

Oil on canvas 11"X14"

I did this painting quite a while ago, a year or more. I sold it in a gallery in Corolla North Carolina.

Chicken Run

Oil on canvas 12"X16"

chicken run $250

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Head Shop

Sure. 

Oil on panel 12"X16"

Sorrel (SOLD)

This was a quick fun study of a horse on the beach. 

Oil on canvas 6"X8"

thanks for looking

This painting is sold.

(Still Life) (At a slow and steady pace)

I did this still life more than 2 years ago.  

Oil on canvas 12"X16"

$250 shipping included

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Shrimp

Behold Bredrin!

I painted a shrimp.

Oil on canvas 

$235 shipping included.

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Thoughts

Here is a crab I painted when I think about it.

Oil on canvas 8"X16"

and you can own this ricknilson@gmail.com

Crab Essence

This was a fun use of all the colors and shapes I think about or use while painting blue crabs without really trying to paint blue crabs. 

Oil on canvas 8"X16"

and you can own this.

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Chrome Horse (SOLD)

I tried not to think about it. I treated every plate like a tiny landscape. I enjoyed this.

Oil on canvas 30"X40"

this painting is sold.

A Pelican and Stuff

A pelican and stuff

Oil on canvas 16"X20"

I sold this to a friend.

Redness (SOLD)

Oil on canvas 12"X16"

this painting is sold

The Boss's Joke

Everybody laughed.

Oil on canvas 10"X20"

thanks for looking.

Gull Double

I painted this bird twice. This one is for sale.

Oil on canvas 16"X20"

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Shells 11X14

shells like me.

Oil on canvas 11"X14"

thank for the fish.

buy this.

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My Town

Oil on canvas 24"X36"

This is almost like a commission. So send me an email if you want this.

My town, Kitty Hawk North Carolina

thanks for looking

The Encounter (SOLD)

This was a fun piece. I added the crab. 

Oil on canvas 24"X24"

This painting is sold.

Tyler's Blues

Go see my son's movie. He suffered for art. 

I color.

The Peanut Butter Falcon

In Theaters Now!

 (I never use exclamation points!)

Oil on canvas 12"X16"

Thank you for looking

Gull in the shallows (SOLD)

Original Oil on stretched canvas

11"X 14"

This painting is sold.

Rooster exit left

Oil on canvas panel 16"X20"

I want you to want this.

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Cardinal Studies

Oil on canvas 24"X24"

buy this.

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Horses (SOLD)

This painting has a sealer coat over the original oil. It protects the paint on the canvas and also makes taking a photograph very difficult. That said, this painting does not represent itself here as much as in person. 

Oil on canvas 24" X 36"

this painting is sold.

Mob Rule

Oil on canvas 16"X20"

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Boat Yard

Oil on canvas 11"X14"

thanks for looking. buy this.

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