Home of the Blues (SOLD)

I struggled with this. Trying to decide if this was indeed an attempt at an architectural rendering or just colored shapes. This blue home in Kill Devil Hills is on the oceanfront. I believe that this painting now hangs inside of this house.

Oil on canvas 16"X16"

thanks for looking.

this painting is sold.

Horseplay and Disease

............are killing me by degrees.

This horse used to roam Wake County. Thanks for the picture Kathy.

Oil on canvas 12"X16"

The Fisher King (SOLD)

I like these birds. Kingfishers. They appear so oddly proportioned. They fish sometimes in my back yard.

Oil on panel 11"X14"

thanks for looking.

this painting is sold.

East of Eden (SOLD)

This oceanfront home in Kill Devil Hills is just east of Eden Street.

 You can't make up stuff like this.

Oil on canvas 18"X18"

this painting is sold. 

Garden Variety Ducks

 Your average garden variety ducks.

Oil on canvas 18"X18"

I donated this painting to Empty Bowls.

Shadow Lands

A coastal marsh landscape thingy with bayberry trees.

Oil on canvas 12"X24"

Backlit Gull (SOLD)

This seemed so easy, and I love the easy ones.

Oil on canvas 12"X24"

You might like to buy this, perhaps?

this painting is sold.

Call Letter Blues (SOLD)

When I don't want to think much, or don't know what else to say, I can still paint maybe a crab.

Call Letter Blues

Oil on canvas 11"X14'

this painting is sold

Ferchizzle (SOLD)

Blackface Gulls in Motion

Oil on canvas 16"X16"

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thanks for looking

this painting is sold.

Blue Heron (SOLD)

 I tried a new blog layout, and all my gadgets disappeared. I switched back.

I do like this Blue Heron.  I feared over working it.

Oil on canvas 12"X16"

this painting is sold.

Plea Bargining Crab

If there is an original thought, anytime now... lord, anytime.

Oil on panel 3.75"X11"

This painting is no longer available.

Solitary Plover

Oil on panel 8"X10"

this painting is no longer available.

A Fish House Farewell (on painting with nostalgia)(SOLD)

I never took much percentage in nostalgia. I have always had enough in front of me to spend much time looking back. I was, however, a bit nostalgic learning this old fish house in Wanchese had succumb to the elements and finally the wrecking ball. She is gone now, a victim of neglect. I have painted her before, 

(in the past), but no more.

"Ode to the Fish House"

a poem by Rick Nilson

Oh, my old fish house. Sitting so patiently, while I painted you, alone in my studio.

Never asking to have your roof fixed or your windows caulked while I painted you, alone in my studio.

Now I shall paint you again, alone in my studio.

Never more.

Never more.

Jeese how cheese!

Oil on canvas 16"X16"

This painting is sold

Shorebirds in the flats (SOLD)

A lady came to paint with me.

"What would you like to paint." I asked her.

"Oh, whatever. Something simple, I suppose. Maybe little birds." She said.

"That would be nice." I said. 

Oil on canvas 11"X14"

This painting is sold.

Sandcastle (SOLD)

Funny the way things don't always turn out just the way you had them planned. I am still in some form of Hurricane Irene recovery dementia. I have a lot of new priorities that have little to do with painting.  It is something I hope to be over soon and again able to spend more time doing this.

A little oceanfront cottage in Nags Head with a washed out pink color against the blue clouds and sky seemed like an appropriate combination.

Oil on canvas 16"X16"

thanks for looking. this painting is sold.