Jogging Shrimp

I have almost everything on this canvas. Mixed Media on canvas 12"X16"

Mad Shrimp

I am still not satisfied with this. I will probably do something different with this. I can't know what it is though. oil on canvas 14"X11"

Cora wears her pail like a crown

Kevin sent me a picture of his daughter. I didn't ask why Cora needed headgear. I am having fun with these little 2 minute sketches. Mixed media on copier paper

Gaited Shrimp

Shrimp Dressage Pen and marker sketches

Pompous shrimp

Posturing Shrimp

Pen and marker sketch

Jumper and Kitty set new state record! (SOLD)

pen and marker sketch.

(SOLD to Kitty)

Prancing Shrimp (SOLD)

fin

I am trying to stay true to my original rodeo sketches. I have not yet used any white on this. I find that I can make more revisions without getting to battleship grey if I keep white away until I need it. I read somewhere that it was easier to make a painting lighter. So, I have a pretty open field in front of me. I really like this mixing the equine or bovine with the crustaceans. This is a work in progress 18"X22" Oil on linen
This painting is sold.

Bucking Shrimp

16"X16" Oil on Linen
This painting is no longer available.

Shrimp Tapas

16"X6" oil on linen $100+S&H

Rodeo Shrimp

(SOLD)

One morning during my college years in Texas, (Professor Emeritus) Fred Klatt ate a Tic-Tac just before class. I was able to get close enough to hear him critiquing a drawing with a fellow student, ".......lines and arcs have definitive beginnings and definitive ends. On the other hand, scratches, like those you show me, just have the middle part."

Pen and marker sketches

Shrimp#10 (SOLD)

I taped a piece of pre-gessoed linen to a piece of plywood. I will have to mount it on a board of some fashion in order to sell or display this painting. I have not done this before, I usually build my own frames and stretch my own canvas. Prepared linen is a luxury. The linen panels are wonderful. It makes duck canvas feel like painting on gravel.

Oil on linen 10"X20"

this  painting is sold

The Tile guy

Pen and marker sketch

Shrimp

I have thought about painting a large shrimp. These 2 were fun to paint. Oil on canvas paper 9"X12"

North Carolina Shrimp

Pen and marker sketch

The outdoor shower (SOLD)

Outdoor showers are wonderful things. I have one in my back yard with a nice rose growing up the side. Ouch! Some time in May I begin using it every day until it gets too cold. I would say that 95+% of the homes on the outer banks have outdoor shower's. Few are used more than mine. Mine also offers more privacy than this one.
Oil on linen 18"X18" (SOLD)

Kitty Hawk Village (SOLD)

These 3 little white out buildings and white farm house with a red brick chimney sit on a dead end street on the edge of town. There is a white picket fence along the gravel road .There is a cemetery across the street. Oil on linen 12"X18". (SOLD)

Nanny! Nanny! (SOLD)

I took a photo of this couple coming off the beach last summer. It was such a grainy image that up until now I was reluctant to attempt it. Thanks for looking.

Oil on linen panel 12"X16" (SOLD)

What? What?

My dog lives a separate life that I really know little about. One day a neighbor came up to me and said, "We had Digger out with us last Sunday on the boat. She had a blast with the grand kids." I throw her a frizbee and she never throws it back. Oil on canvas 12"X18"

Cow parts

cow parts (pen and marker sketches) (SOLD)

Marvin dies with a tit in his hand (SOLD)

Marvin Nygaard married Helen Nilson. Soon after they bought a farm just down the hill from Tabor Church. Tabor Church cemetery has a lot of headstones with names like Nilson, and Rickmo, and Nygaard. Like most of the farms in the area, Marvin had dairy cows. Everyday he would rise at 4:00 AM, and milk his cows. He would feed them, and he would eat something. Marvin would go to his "day" job in town. At the end of another day, he would return home and milk his cows for the final time that day, feed them, and finish the rest of his daily chores. He would go up to the house and eat. In the spring of the year Helen often spoke kind words and coached Marvin about fixing the broken gate that allowed the hogs into her newly planted garden. On other ocassions, Helen would go right down to the barn and offer spontaneous encouragement while Marvin was milking. Ancestors on the hill, upon overhearing Helen encourage Marvin on progressive farming practices, certainly rested in peace knowing their lineage was secure. One day Marvin didn't come up to the house. Helen found him hunched over behind a cow with udders full of milk. At the funeral someone commented on how straight Marvin had planted his fence posts.

Oil on linen panel 12"X16" Thanks for looking and I welcome comments.
This painting is SOLD

End Games

Contour drawing in mixed media. This is a graphic response to something!

Sweet Avalon (SOLD)

fin

This is an oil wash "under painting"of the Avalon Fishing Pier in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. I used a red ochre to stain. This is the work in progress.

In the summer of 1989 the winds blew on shore for most of the month of July. Those odd summer winds brought the gulf stream right to the end of Avalon Pier. The floating grasses that typically define the edge of the gulf stream, that summer, defined the high water mark up and down the outer banks of North Carolina. That summer one lucky fisherman caught a sailfish on the pier. The sailfish is a member of the billfish family, blue marlin, white marlin, and sailfish and can be caught in the gulf stream 35 miles off shore. This was unheard of before, and not done since. I saw flying fish (the little ones with the wings) close to the end of the pier that summer. Again, not sighted since. I watched whales make bubble nets before they did movies about how whales formed spiral bubble nets. The owner of the pier had the sailfish mounted and displayed in a custom built glass cabinet on the front of the building. Over time, the fish faded in the afternoon sun, and it started to look tired. Not a good condition for a fiberglass fish. The owner eventually took it down and put it in the crawl space above the pier house.

"No surfing or swimming within 300 feet of the pier"

Oil on linen panel 12"X16"
this painting is sold.

Victorian Tower(SOLD)

This was a challange!

I know from building a few houses that yellow is always the hardest color to deal with. I have had people change yellow more than all other colors combined. One lovely lady said " ....... this isn't yellow. Its YELL OH!!" and then everybody laughed.

oil on canvas 12"X24"
This painting is sold.

Broken Bicycles

I did this as an acrylic painting quite a while ago. I tried to make it rain. so here is an update with oils over acrylic. Mixed Media on canvas 16"X22"
this painting is no longer available.

oily nights(SOLD)

6"X6" Lots of oil on canvas (SOLD)

Mongonlian Horse

Oil on canvas paper 12"X9"

Crab War

Acrylic on canvas 14"X14"

I have donated this painting to the Dare County Hospice. I hope the new owner likes it.

Dr. Sax comes for his bride(SOLD)

Thanks to Debbie Lincoln for the photo of this great subject and his horses. Thanks for looking! Acrylic on canvas 18"X18"
This painting is sold to a repeat collector.
Thank you again.

Dude and wave

Linen is wonderful stuff to paint on. Acrylic washes on linen 24"X16"

Matchbox Blues

Acrylic on canvas 16"X24"

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)