Oriental Horse (SOLD)

acrylic on canvas 10"X8" (SOLD)

Horse Fly (on reverse-engineering the oriental ink painting)(SOLD)

I always felt there were too many good artists out there doing beautiful paintings of equine for me to even consider it as subject matter. These last 3 paintings are my versions of oriental ink paintings. I can correct and recorrect with my media. I marvel at how they did much more with a single brush stroke. They certainly are a fun subject. Acrylic on canvas 10"X16" (SOLD)

Sweet and Sour Horse (SOLD)

Acrylic on canvas 12"X16
 (SOLD)

Kung Pao Horse (SOLD)

Acrylic on canvas 18"X22"
This painting is sold.

Action Packed

Acrylic on canvas 16"X20"
this painting is no longer available.

Longhorn Blues

I painted on this for a little while and when I really started to enjoy it, I stopped. I think I will have a tuna fish sandwich for lunch and then I'll call you!

Acrylic on canvas 24"X16"

Dude and shadow (SOLD)

I could not get a good photo of this. It's not your monitor. Sorry about the shine, but thanks for looking! Acrylic on canvas 9"X12" (SOLD)

Ducks by the fountain (Barcelona)

Acrylic on canvas 6"X6" in photoshop

Blue Mule Variations

acrylic on canvas 6"X8"

Electric Ewe (on Bitter Lake)(SOLD)

Acrylic on canvas 16"X20"

(SOLD)

Gary comes out of the closet (and insists everyone calls him "Elizabeth")(SOLD)

acrylic on canvas 6"X8"

(SOLD)

He stood there being Rude! (The Rude Man)

I think I like to paint these red houses because it gives me an excuse to put red paint on the canvas. Kitty Hawk is a pretty small town. One of the residents shared the story of the old man renting this house one summer. He was put on "high alert" by the local police department. The man was being quite rude out the windows. Both to the ocean and towards North Carolina Highway 12 (the beachroad). The Round House. Acrylic on canvas 16"X20
this painting is no longer available.

pretty maids in a row

Well, because, I'm not really too sure.

Acrylic on canvas 12"X16"

Mean Crabs on Bowser Town Road (SOLD)

Hey.......it could happen!

Acrylic on canvas 12"X16"
This painting is sold.

Solace on Bitter Lake (SOLD)

 And I haven't had a single lesson!

Acryic on canvas 6"X8"
this painting is sold

Sacrificing identity (On Bitter Lake)

Acrylic on canvas 6"X8"

Surf Shop Confidentials (SOLD)

and now it looks exactly like this.

a bit more in focus with blue washes over the area in shade and a little more white to define area in sunlight. The only color I have used is a mix of blue and raw umber as my black and white with the red tone of the background being my middle ground. Happy New Year. I keep telling myself something's coming..........................................

I might not paint anything else all year. still working on it.
Kevin likes my works in progress. This is the Secret Spot Surf Shop in Nag's Head, NC. I start most of my architectural paintings this way. Red toned to a middle ground tone. The remnants of my grid is still visable in the center of the painting. "Do you have dreams?"......... "Yeah, I have dreams. I dream of fire and intense heat....Don't pay any attention to my dreams."
Acrylic on canvas 12"X24" (SOLD)

The "Mini-McMansion" (on painting ill advised)(SOLD)

I will leave the work in progress below and above is the finished painting.
I have painted this house before "Design Gone Wild". A tiny ocean front house in Kitty Hawk that has tried in a series of remodels to look like all it's bigger brothers up and down the beach road. "The McMansions" I had been painting on this and it just wasn't working for me. It seemed somehow "unimportant". I thought perhaps it wasn't quite "........crooked enough". I start to add a personal slant and (all day long my counselor's paid just to warn me) "...man,...you're painting ill advised".
Acrylic on canvas in sepia 18"X18"
This painting is sold.

The Backyardagains (on waterfowl migration)(SOLD)

Thank you to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for "straightening out" the Missouri River.

Acrylic on canvas 16"X16" (SOLD)

Bring your best game (on Bitter Lake)(SOLD)

It is a true saying that man may plan, but that God has the last word (Oom Schlak Lourens said.) Acrylic on canvas 18"X18" (SOLD)

I don't mind you cheatin' on me, but I sure wish he'd take that off his head

Ok. This painting is free. For you. Be the first person to send me an email requesting this painting and I will send it to you. I will even pay the postage. The only criteria is that you do not yet own one of my paintings. Acrylic on canvas 6"X8". Merry Christmas, Mary, I hope you enjoy it.

And the band played on

The ochestra played "Happy Birthday to You". And then "The Sound of Music" was in every corner. St. Mark's Square. Acrylic on canvas 24"X36"

Blue moon (on when its too late to do a painting)

I did this as a sketch and then I decided to try it as a painting. This was too much fun to take seriously, but here it is. Acrylic on canvas 12"X16"

Are we there yet, again? (Kitty Hawk, 2008) (SOLD)

I painted this originally about 7 or 8 months ago. It hung in a gallery for 6 months. I took it out and replaced it with something else. I had to decide rather to gesso or modify. I modified it and added life that could been happening......... sort of like in "The Shining". Sometimes I think your paying attention and then sometimes I just fall flat. Acrylic on canvas 18"X18" (SOLD)

Food Fight!

(I'M LOVIN' IT.)

acrylic on canvas 12"X16"

The Smart Continental (Dona Palace,Venice, June 11,2006)

above is a revision after reading Marilyn King's dots on "............good"
We fell asleep to the sounds of the shops closing and the clatter of tables and chairs being taken back into the restaurants on the street below. In the morning we were enjoying a smart continental breakfast on the balcony overlooking the canal. The newspaper had an article about Dragan Nikolic, a commander in the Bosnian Army that was being sent to Italy to serve a 20 year imprisonment for war crimes. I looked up from the paper and said "Happy Birthday Love........" Acrylic on canvas 16"X12"

Terns and Bloods (Cape Hatteras National Sea Shore/December 2008)(SOLD)

I am of the mind that giving a painting a place and a date in the title somehow signifies "important and relevant". You should agree. One can occasionally throw in words like "blood"and "saga", and hints to human strife and suffering. However, they must never be overused and should imply historical significance. I couldn't help smiling at these guys as I painted them. Acrylic on canvas 18"X22". (SOLD)

Marching to the City (OBX Hospital Donation)

I am amused by the thought of crabs marching. Sideways, goosestepping and claws akimbo. Or just easily amused. I liked the monotone red that defines this painting. Acrylic on canvas 18"X18" (I have donated this to The Outerbanks Hospital. I hope the new owner enjoys it.)

Around the world in a dirty gondola (on when I paint my masterpiece)

Well, I just do what I'm told. My wife says to do a painting for her. "Do one of those like the boats in Venice"........... "Do one like that." She hands me a photo from our vacation in Venice. I just do what she says, of course. Then I painted this and then later I showed it for her to see. She looks at it and then she says ".....yeah. just.......not that size." Well, I just do what I'm told. Acrylic on canvas 16"X24"

Two penned

I painted a cottage painting for 2 days and then I painted these sheep on Bitter Lake. I didn't like the cottages much, but this was fun to paint. Acrylic on canvas 22"X18"

Green Frog

This photo is pretty bad. I will post a new one with my next painting. Acrylic on canvas 20"X20".

Ewe on Bitter Lake

I limited my pallete to 4 colors and white. More than that seems a sloppy induldgence. Acrylic on canvas 14"X18"

DUDE!

I try to get flesh tones, and then I............well, Dude! Acrylic on canvas 12"X18 Who else has these crazy sized canvases. Dude!

Aristocrabs (SOLD)

 Acrylic on canvas 32"X32"
This painting is sold.

Bureaucrab (SOLD)

Bluecrabs are worth about $10 a bushel to the guy harvesting them. Acrylic on canvas 10"X14"

(SOLD)

Shala looks over her glasses and asks if I still love her (SOLD)

Acrylic on canvas 22"X18"

(SOLD)

Let me molt into something more comfortable (SOLD)

I placed these 2 blue crabs in the position that VanGogh painted his "stonecrabs"

I think they were stonecrabs.

Acrylic on canvas 16"X20" (SOLD)

Bluedog's cow (Call Your Mother)

 

In the glacial lakes region of South Dakota an Indian chief named Bluedog lived a wonderful life and he had a lot of buffalo in his pastures. These two descendants spent the summer of 2008 in sweet grass growing older. I got no business painting buffalo on an island. The great-great-great granddaughter of Chief BlueDog came and stayed in my house. She did not scalp me in my sleep and I gave her this painting.

Acrylic on canvas 16"X12"

Mississippi (SOLD)

I knew a mule from Kansas named Mississipi. This is not him. This one is from Texas and that is all I know about it. Thanks Debbie for the photo. Acrylic on canvas 12"X10" (SOLD)

Crab Fight! (Donated to a worthy cause)

This painting has been donated to a worthy organizatioin, The Dare Co. Hospice.

The bottom of a crab is one of the most complicated shapes I have painted to date. Lots and lots of moving parts.

Acrylic on canvas 12"X14"

The Supper Club (SOLD)

I have painted on this for a while. I keep going back to The Rainbow Herd. Cows out west. Rawhide! Eartags required. Damn, you got shit on your tail! Acrylic on canvas 14"X36"

(SOLD)

Beach Boys(SOLD)

Crabs out there at the beach.

Acrylic on canvas 14"X36" (SOLD)

Viceroy Crab! (SOLD)

This crab just happened. I like the dark background.
 Acrylic on canvas 16"X24"
This painting is sold.

You're Way Wrong!

He looked a little bewildered, and I said "You're way wrong!"

Acrylic on canvas 20"X20"

Run here somebody! (on painting addictions)(SOLD)

I have lost count on how many times I have painted these houses. There are other houses along North Carolina Highway 12, but one is running all around my brain. "Run here somebody, won't you please run here in a hurry! This old (house) has got me worried!"(Rev. Gary Davis)
 Acrylic on canvas 20"X20".
This painting is sold.