The Landing

This is what I will call my 800th painting, a scene in Kitty Hawk Landing.

Oil on canvas 16"X20"

My goal is to hit 900 in the spring of 2011 and 1000 sometime late summer. When I started painting in late 2007 my goal was 50. Thanks for looking.

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Pole Cat (SOLD)

This is surely one of my calico cats. I don't know how to spell her name, "Shirley" or "Shirlee".

Star me kitten!

Oil on canvas 16"X20"

This painting is sold.

Straighten Up and Fly Right Sometime (SOLD)

Detail

Yeah, you.

Oil on canvas 18"X24"

this painting is sold.

Sweet Fat Sticks to Your Ribs (SOLD)

Finally. I was worried I wouldn't ever finish this.

Oil on canvas 24"X24"

This painting is sold.

The Christmas Present (SOLD)

My wife and I bought an older home in Kitty Hawk in 1997. Since we have been sporadically remodeling rooms. As a Christmas present  this year I decided to remodel her bathroom. It has been a life changing experience. Among other things, I learned that I don't want to do that kind of work any more.  The work is not quite finished, but far enough along that I can get back to doing what brings me the most joy and some painting, too!

Oil on canvas 10"X20"

This painting is sold.

Camel Jockey

pencil sketch's and oil on canvas sketch

Carolina Marsh

I host a small workshop in my studio. Today we painted a marsh scene.  

 Thanks for looking.

Oil on canvas 16"X20"

this painting is no longer available.

Lakes with twisted oaks that grow (SOLD)

These oaks grow at the edge of Enemy Swim Lake in the Glacial Lakes Region of South Dakota.

Oil on canvas 11"X14"

This painting is sold.

Happy Our's on the Martini Deck (SOLD)

A wonderful patron asked me to paint an ocean front house in Duck, North Carolina. I tried to go straight, but this is from a different point of view. Thanks Sherri.

Oil on canvas 16"X20"

This painting is sold.

Three Little Birds (SOLD)

Oil on canvas 10"X20"

This painting is sold.

Fishing for Godot (SOLD)

If you would like to buy this painting of a scene in Wanchese Harbour send me an email.

thanks for looking.

oil on canvas 24"x12”

This painting is sold.

Repelican

I painted a pelican, and then I painted it again. Repelican.

Oil on canvas 14"X14"

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Violently Mowing

oil on canvas 8"X16"

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Captain Gaston (SOLD)

I am liking this.

 This is a scene in Wanchese Harbour.

Oil on canvas 32"X24"

This painting is sold.

The Money Shot (SOLD)

I liked the way this painting came together.

Oil on canvas 12"X16"

this painting is sold.

Rent Me Kayak

This place rents kayaks and is on the "64 Causeway" between Roanoke Island and the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

Oil on canvas 10"X20"

Lets Go Catwalk (Allons Passerelle)(SOLD)

Oil on canvas 10"X20"

This painting is sold.

Mr. Bumbles takes a vacation (SOLD)

Bumble bees spend the summer hovering around my garage door and pollinating the flowers in my garden. There is a little hole just the right size in the eve of my garage. I think Mr. Bumble's family live in my attic and I like it.

Oil on canvas 11"X14"

This painting is sold.

Anna's Dog

A guest and her pet.

pencil sketch

La Pooch(SOLD)

 (SOLD)

This seems like it was a long time coming.

Oil on canvas 8"X16"

This painting is sold.

Bye Bye Blackbird (SOLD)

There was something about this that seemed so simple, and I love the easy ones.

Oil on canvas 11"X32"

This painting is sold

A Movable Feast (SOLD)

Oil on canvas 11"X14"

this painting is sold.

Seaboy throws a shoe

a fast horse and jockey. I keep adding paint to this. I like it.

Oil on canvas 24"X36"

this painting is no longer available.

Derby Day (SOLD)

I'm happy with it.

Detail

First I painted my original 20 minute horse and rider. That was kinda fun. I painted another. Then before I knew it, I had a horse race happening right here on Derby Day. This is a big canvas and I am sort of flying blind, in that I don't have a reference photo to use. I am really liking this.

more to come.

my original  20 minute sketch was indeed in vane. That horse and rider was replaced by another more to scale. I left my original rider just beyond the fence. I am aware that posting works in progress in a logical way that makes sense and is somehow allegorical is an art in itself. What that means is that the one in the middle is first, the one on the bottom is progress and the one on top is finished.

thanks for looking.
Oil on canvas 36"X36"
This painting is sold.

Kitty Hawk Pier (SOLD)

Oil on canvas 20"X16"

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thanks for looking.

this painting is sold.

Tee Black

This was enjoyable to paint. I would love to paint this boat under sail. Less rigging for sure.

Thank you for looking.

Oil on canvas 16"X20"

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Mud Creek Strut

Oil on canvas 9"X12"

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Adventure Bound

Oil on canvas 6"X12"

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Goodbye to the Kings

My calico.

Oil on canvas 9"X12"

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Half a mind to sell the horses (SOLD)

This is one of the wild asses on St. John.

I'd guess most that visit somewhere exotic have half a mind to pack it in and move there.

Oil on canvas 14"X11"

This painting is sold.

Emily's Dragon (SOLD)

One Saturday I painted with a young Emily. I asked what she liked to draw.

"Dragons!" was her immediate response.

"....well, I don't paint no dragons." I answered.

Correction Emily, I guess I do.

Oil on canvas 12"X9"

This painting is sold.

St. John's Bathhouse

This little bathhouse is another scene from my trip to US Virgin Islands. 

Oil on canvas 11"X14"

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Boiling Point (SOLD)

This was sort of different. I bought some little turtle figurines and set them in a bowl of sand and painted them like a still life.

Oil on canvas 10"X20"

This painting is sold to a repeat collector in New Jersey.

Suzanne (SOLD)

This black sailboat with fine lines was my view while I was snorkeling in the cove with St. Thomas in the background. The place is a living postcard complete with sound.

Oil on canvas 18"X36"

This painting is sold.

Curious Lambs (SOLD)

I started this painting before I left for the USVI for a week.  It feels good to be back smearing paint on canvas and the excitement of chasing shapes and colors.

Oil on canvas 10"X20"

this painting is sold.

Young Turks in Paradise

I have been at my son's wedding in St. John, USVI this week. Cindy and I took a tour bus ride around the island and stopped here for a photo opp. Oddly enough some of the 80 or so in the wedding party were swimming here at Caneel Bay when I snapped the shot. Look closely and you will see a very pale  young turk walking in the shallows. Yikes. I may just move here, but just not today.

Darkside of the Moon Tillett Road (SOLD)

These buildings and boats are on the backside of Moon Tillett Road in Wanchese, North Carolina.

One time I wanted something really bad.

...and then real soon I got exactly that.

Oil on canvas 16"X20"

this painting is sold.

Gran Mamou (SOLD)

Grand Mama Bluecrab

My pincher is cherry red.

Oil on canvas 12"X36"

This painting is sold.

Song and Dance Man

Nobody's houseboy.

Oil on canvas 9"X12"

this painting is no longer available.

Bringing home the minnow

oddly enough I found this subject fishing an inlet into Bitter Lake. A long way from the coast.

oil on canvas 12"X9"

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Farm life Waltz (no longer available)

farm life 201

Oil on canvas 20"X16"

this painting is in the Jim Nilson Private Collection.

Rural Mancave

I was going to call this, "Red Barn on Mud Creek" but in lieu, (who says lieu?) of yesterday's piece, "Serious Mancave" I know of no better name. This is Bob's barn and his chickens. Bob moved south of town years ago and bought a small farm on Mud Creek. Bob knows more about cattle than any man I know. He was a good neighbor and he said he will keep back a few roosters for my next visit to South Dakota.

Oil on canvas 20"X16"

This painting is in the Jim Nilson Collection

Serious Mancave (SOLD)

Oil on canvas 18"X24"

This painting is sold.

Duck on Parade (SOLD)

Oil on canvas 18"X24"

This painting is sold.