The last grain elevator in yellow clover

This is the grain elevator in Holmquist South Dakota.

Once farmers and ranchers could buy hardware, fencing and bulk fuel.

Now it offers an exclusive  "Destination Wedding" package. Catering available.

no waiting.

Oil on canvas 11"X14"

The Last Feline in Avatar

This cat started looking like she belonged in Avatar. I don't even know where that is.

Oil on canvas 6"X8"

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Consulting with Engineers

Sure. I've had this conversation.

Oil on canvas 14"X11"

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I Might Haul Off and Crab(SOLD)

Well...........I'm in the wrong town again.

I am flying to South Dakota tomorrow for a few days. 

I hope to be far away from internets and cell phones.

Oil on canvas 36"X18"

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Nag's Head Fishing Center (SOLD)

A beach scene featuring The Nag's Head Fishing Pier and PierHouse

Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Oil on canvas 24"X16"

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Poor Mr. Bumbles (SOLD)

Mr. Bumbles has a hell hound on his tail. No wait, it's just his shadow.

Oil on canvas 8"X10"

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The bitch keeps me on a short leash(SOLD)

This dog was walking the beachroad. It turned around just long enough to say,.......

Oil on canvas 10"X8"

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Killing me softly (SOLD)

The other day we cooked some softshell crabs. This is what she looked like on the cutting board.

Oil on canvas 24"X16"

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Power from Above (SOLD)

Most of the beachroad is serviced by overhead electrical lines.

Oil on canvas 14"X11"

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Wee Moutons by the Lake

Little lambs by the Lake. I painted this about 15 months ago. It was looking like it wanted a bit more color.

I gave it a few dabs of fresh paint. 

Oil on linen 14"X12" 

This painting is under some other painting. So be it.

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Gables (SOLD)

 Mornings along the beachroad on the Outer Banks of NC.

Oil on canvas 5"X7"

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Now and Zen Horse

This is how I paint a zen horse now.

Oil on canvas sketch

Brown up to here Pelican (SOLD)

I am posting this reference photo to show you how this piece of Wanchese Harbour used to look.About a foot above the water line welders have cut away the hull of the Bald Eagle. I took this picture about 2 months ago.  I heard that the wreck of the Bald Eagle has been removed. I like the gloves in the foreground. Screw you.

Oil on canvas 11"X14"

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You got the Silver(SOLD)

A lot of people come to the outer banks on vacation.  Over the years a lot of people have rented the house behind "Old Miller's Pharmacy"or what is now "The Beachroad Grill" in Nag's Head, North Carolina. I have painted this house three times in the past. This is the forth time that this particular cottage has showed up in my paintings. A couple that had stayed in this house saw my painting in a gallery. They did not buy it at the time and it was sold before they got back to the gallery. That painting was "Sidewalks, Fences and Walls". Friends of the couple contacted me and asked if I would paint it again as a gift.

Oil on canvas 24"X24" 

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Blackbirds

Oil on canvas 16"X12"

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Digger (SOLD)

It's too damn bad  the way my dog turned  out last year. Digger. I called her that because as a puppy she liked to dig holes. I threw her tennis balls all the time. She never threw them back.

Oil on canvas 14"X11"

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Rock and Roll Crab

This was a welcome relief. I will never tire of these

An original bluecrab by Rick Nilson.

Accept no substitute. Copy no other.

Oil on canvas 10"X24"

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Capt. Ralph (SOLD)

I have been painting on this a lot. Wiping away rigging, moving stuff. It is always difficult learning a new subject, and all this apparatus with the nettings has a lot of shapes.

The fishing boat "Capt. Ralph" is docked in Wanchese Harbour.

Oil on canvas 24"X36"

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Sassy Sarah (SOLD)

No inference. Although, I have known it to be so.

I enjoyed painting this a lot, it came out as if I had been preparing my entire life to paint this. Wanchese Harbour is a great place to get shots of a working seafood park. It is my sincere hope that boats like "Sassy Sarah" will always have seafood to catch in the coastal waters along the Outer Banks of North Carolina. I pray the wetlands along the Gulf of Mexico can survive our best efforts.

Oil on canvas 24"X12"

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Les Gaurde(SOLD)

A lifegaurd watches the surf  on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

Oil on canvas 8"X16"

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One Trick Pony Crab (SOLD)

I painted another crab. This ain't no dog and pony show. As a sidebar, I used a photo of a bluecrab in the previous painting I did and stayed as faithful as I could to the photo, this one however, I just made up. I would not have guessed that the two would be quite so similar.

Oil on canvas 16"X24"

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