Later on Avalon (SOLD)

If you have ever walked out on Avalon  Fishing Pier at night you feel a bit like you are walking on a wave.

Oil on canvas 12X24
This painting is sold.
Thanks for looking.

The Wild One (nodp)

This lucky little girl got to try out her trainer wheels while on vacation with her family on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

Oil on canvas 9"X12" not for sale

Morbidly Feline

 What I painted today. I tried something else a couple of times. I have wiped away enough paint to do 4 paintings. Its only paint and my cat Lovee. Oil on canvas 12"X9"

this painting is no longer available.

 

A study in bird (SOLD)

This is another running bird. Fun little paintings of birds at the beach chasing the waves.

Oil on canvas panel 8"X10"

This painting is sold.

GodSpeed

This is "GodSpeed" docked in Teach's Lair Marina on Hatteras Island.

Oil on canvas 11"X14"
I am not sure where this painting is or even if its sold.
why?

A little Shirley Now and Zen (SOLD)

Here again is my cat doing zen like things in my backyard. I need a new venue or a new pet or a jonre. Maybe a niche. I have always wanted to have my own one of those. Yes, I need a nice little niche. Not too big, not too small, just one to call my very own. One that fits this perfect hell I'm in.

Oil on canvas 8"X20
(SOLD to a repeat collector)

My town with a little drop of posion

This is a painting of the beachroad. I have had it around for a  quite a while and I ocassionally  add bits of color. This is what it looks like now.  We paint our sand fences pink, or at least I do.  I took the reference photo for this late one warm summer afternoon in the coldest dead of winter.

Oil on canvas 22"X18"

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Price: $335 USD plus $16 USD s/h
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Careless Love (a study in canine)

Dogs seem to personify "Careless Love". They give it so freely to anyone who will accept it.  I painted a friends dog. I gotta get my own model.
I gave this painting to the dog's owner.

Oil on canvas 6"X8"

Faded Lovee(SOLD)

Most people can't make this stuff up. This is "Lovee" the pastel calico that replaced Laverne.  If my neighbor and I were still on speaking terms he would testify. About a year ago my neighbor came to our house. He saw "Lovee" for the first time, however, he knew we already had a calico cat. In astonishment he asked, "..has that cat faded?"

Oil on canvas 14"X11"
This painting is sold.

Ewe on Parchman Farm (SOLD)

Parchman farm was a 16,000 acre prison in Mississippi. This painting started out as a rural landscape of South Dakota. It had a barn, an old house and a concrete silo, with a big open pasture in the foreground. I thought the pasture needed something. So I added the sheep. Then I realized that the sheep really didn't need the house, the barn or the concrete silo. Sometimes the things I have the hardest time parting with are the things I need the least.
This painting is sold to a repeat collector

Key to the Highway (SOLD)

I have painted this house before. This is an ocean front home in Nag's Head, North Carolina.  When I moved to the outer banks I lost the key to the highway. Now I won't be leaving here running, and you know, walking is most too slow.

Oil on canvas 11"X14"
this painting is sold.

Cat Scratch Fever(SOLD)

Since my dog died I have been paying more attention to my cats. This one in particular. Shirley. I am fastinated by the intense euphoric feeling she apparently  gets digging her claws along the  wood grain. I think I have captured that moment here.
Oil on canvas 8"X16" (SOLD)

Cheeze Boat

This is a commercial fishing boat docked in Wanchese Harbour. Local's call them Cheeseboats.

Oil on canvas 14"X10"

(This painting is a gift for my favorite people)

Don't pay any attention to those fools (SOLD)

These little birds are always so much fun to paint. They make me smile and then I'm sad.

Oil on canvas 8"X16"
(SOLD)

Crab on the Job Too Long (SOLD)

He wants to just go home and forgetaboutit.

This is a Rick Nilson Original Blue Crab Painting.

Accept no substitute and copy no other.

Beware of impersonators, pretending to be crabs.

Oil on canvas 8"X16"
this painting is sold.

The crab I love so close at hand (SOLD)

Sometimes these blue crabs make my day, or it could have been that greasy pizza, but I think it was the wine.  It seems that kickin back at the beach "creating" can be like that. Blue or No.

Oil on canvas 12"X24" (SOLD) to a repeat collector in Kill Devil Hills, NC

Beachroad Satori

This is Island Dyes, or at least the corner of the building and some trashcans. Your moment of Zen. Lord I got 'em!

Oil on canvas 14"X20"

Permanent Green on Mud Creek (SOLD)

"It is God's will that sheep die at the drop of a hat." Oom Schlak Lourens said respectfully to the dead ewe at his feet. Sheep tend to "volunteer" for death with little or no urging or provacation.

Oil on canvas 14"X11"
This painting is sold.

The Village Idiot(sold)

Oil on canvas 11"X14"
this painting is sold.

Where the hell are those keys!

pencil sketch in photoshop