The Honeymooners (it didn't work out)(SOLD)

I have a couple of easels, this one is my favorite. This is an old plotter stand with a piece of lvl attached and 3 12X12 tiles . It is on rollers. Works great. I am redoing a painting with dabs of orange.

This is my pallette of colors and where Mike Rooney told me to put them. I like it like this. I know just where to go to get mud. I keep a gallon of mineral spirits just to my right.

Sadly, when I started painting him, I realized that he couldn't make it without her. I will scrap him. Hopefully she can go on with some kind of life in a little beach cottage somewhere. I will keep the name as a reminder of their brief time together.

I have spent more time on these, is it progress?

I'm just painting shapes here. I struggle with warming the flesh tones.
Oil on canvas 10"X20" and 9"X20
The lady is sold.

Old Guy on Board (SOLD)

This was a fun painting.

oil on canvas 14"X10" (SOLD)

Fear of Flying(SOLD)

oil on canvas 8"X16"
This painting is sold.

Beach Essentials (SOLD)

This was a fun painting.

oil on canvas 8"X16"

this painting is sold.

Roanoke Island Sheep

There are sheep on Roanoke Island. Out on Highway 64.

Oil on canvas 8"X16"
This painting is no longer available.

Sweet Malady(SOLD)

Oil on canvas 20"X16"
This painting is sold.

Orange Wings

This little girl had too much going on not to paint her.

Oil on canvas 12"X16"
this is no longer available.

Red on White(SOLD)

An oceanfront home on the beach road in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. Thanks for looking.

Oil on canvas 20"X18
This painting is sold.

Pelican Briefly(SOLD)

Oil on canvas 14"X20
 This painting is sold.

I just do what I'm told

You know, I just do what I'm told, of course. My wife tells me perhaps the back end of all these sheep could be considered, somehow, worrisome. I mentioned to her perhaps artists do things like "transitional works". Then she doesn't tell me anything. Emboldened by the assumption that this was a new concept for her, I went on to back lighting and tonal qualities and negative shapes and fine art and then there was quite a bit of complimenting her on her dress and were those new shoes? She tells me, "..........hmmmmm.............".

I'd give her Boardwalk and Parkplace and all of my hotels.

oil on canvas 11"X14"

Wanchese Harbor and the OBX

humanity

I've fished the gulf steam aboard Capt. BC's boat. You can see a flag on his boat. He caught a sailfish, the flag is upside down, which means that he released the fish. He is an icon in the sportfishing industry on the Outer Banks.

skimboarding an almost perfect shorebreak

If you look close you can see Bodie Island Lighthouse on the horizon across Pamlico Sound to the beach. This is taken at the south end of Wanchese looking south east. click to enlarge

I live in such a neat place. an oceanfront out my passenger window. I thought you might like to see a bit of my island.

NC FLAG

oil on canvas panel 8"X6"

Nag's Head Red Stripe (SOLD)

oil on canvas 14"X11"

(SOLD to a repeat customer in Raleigh, NC)

Pretty Bird on Mud Creek (SOLD)

This is Bob Loterbauer's rooster. Bob's farm is near Mud Creek.
Oil on canvas 16"X20" (SOLD)

Lunch Crowd

oil on canvas 11"X14"
this painting is no longer available.

Yellow Bath House (SOLD)

You can't make this stuff up. I look for color when I drive the beach road. I joked with my brother once about what color yellow might be in the shade. We agreed it was a shade of yellow. Hey.....I'm trying to sell these things!

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

Fortunate Son (on Mud Creek)

If you follow my blog then you know this is Bitter Lake, south of Waubay, SD. If you hope to survive on Bitter Lake, bring your best game. In the lower right corner you can see a house sitting in the lake. This is the case with a lot of farm buildings and farm land in northeastern South Dakota. Great if you are a duck. The sheep painting above is from Dar Peckham's place down by Mud Creek. I spent an afternoon following Mud Creek with my siblings "hunting" for sheep.

Mud Creek flows to the west a few miles south of Bristol, South Dakota. Mud Creek flows into Amsden Dam. I fished and swam there as a child. Amsden Dam flows west to an already swollen James River east of Aberdeen, South Dakota. I believe that the James River drops approximately 6" from Aberdeen to Yankton, a distance of probably 150 "river miles" and thats pretty flat.

washes of oil on canvas stained crimson

oil on canvas 20"X20"

Watersports

Oil on canvas 11"X14"

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Supply Train Final Leg(SOLD)

Oil on canvas 12"X20"
This painting is sold.

325 pounds of tourism

oil on canvas 10"X14"

"Dude...this surf shop tastes great!" (SOLD)

The Cavalier Surf Shop, Nag's Head, On the beachroad.

Thanks to Tyler Nilson for the photo.

Oil on canvas 14"X11"

(SOLD)

Ben makes big plans

I am again on my quest for imperfection. The lifegaurd's name and other vital information about surf conditions are written on the blackboard on the back of the tower.

Oil on canvas 12"X12"

Dogs and Doctors

Commission

Oil on canvas 14"X14"

The Lifeguard (SOLD)

Oil on canvas 16"X22"
This painting is sold.

I'm in the wrong town again

I am going to South Dakota next week. I painted a crab blue.

Oil on canvas 8"X6"

Step into the light (SOLD)

I was painting this and I got a phone call telling me my brother in Arizona had died unexpectedly in his sleep. I prayed for him. I like to think that yes, he "stepped into the light"

Oil on canvas 8"X6"
This painting is sold

"the doctor's" corneas fry in the afternoon sun(SOLD)

oil on canvas 20"X20" (SOLD)

Waiting for Dolphin Boats (SOLD)

John's DriveIn.

I have enjoyed painting this. John's wife started a tradition of photographing people outside of the drive in and putting the photos on the inside of the windows. She took our picture once and in no time at all the sun bleached it out. I've watched myself fade away.

Oil on canvas 24"X24"
(SOLD)

Rhasta Frog (SOLD)

oil on canvas 18"X18"
(SOLD)

RetroCrab (SOLD)

Oil on canvas 18"X18"
This painting is sold.

Fame!

I keep working on this.

A street musician in Rome.

Oil on canvas 10"X10"

C.S.I. (Crab Scene Investigation)(SOLD)

Oil on canvas 16"X16" (SOLD)

Cindy and the Collossus

This guy looks like me, and my wife sees me like this. Thank you very much.

Inside the Republicca in Rome.

oil on canvas 20"X36"

repo crab (SOLD)

oil on canvas 10"X10"
this painting is sold.

Down along the Cove (SOLD)

More boats in Pirates Cove Marina.

Oil on canvas 24"X16" (SOLD)

Cold Start Chicken

oil on canvas 18"X22"

My Vacation

Had a wonderful vacation in Europe. Spent some francs and a lot of euros. The train through the Alps was a must do. Switzerland needs a lot of money to pay for all the infastructure needed to deal with modern life there. I have a new respect for Hannibal and his getting elephants over those mountains. I have loaded a few pictures of the trip on flickr. Saw a lot more of Bernini's sculpture in the Villa Borghese. (The picture above) Another must see in Rome. Saw some of his paintings and scupture in the Getty in L.A. last year. WOW! Day one. Drove to Norfolk, Va. Flight to Philly. Missed flight to Zurich. Spent 24 needless hours in Philly. Off to Zurich at 6:00 Tonight. The joys of travel!

Pacifics

The "Pacifics" is a commercial fishing boat docked in Wanchese Industrial Seafood Park and fishes in the coastal waters of North Carolina.

I'm tired of this town again.

I am going on a vacation.

Oil on linen 16"X16"

Tuna Towers (SOLD)

this painting kicked my tail.

These boats are part of the charter fishing fleet out of Pirates Cove Marina. Manteo, North Carolina. I thought you might like to see it. Do a search for Pirates Cove. Dare County's first planned unit development. This project brought me to the outer banks in 1987 working on the permits and site development. When I first visited the site there was one building, an old shipstore and bar called Drafty's Tavern. Lots of big fish caught out of this marina. The marina was excavated in 1930 and canals were excavated in 1970 and 1972. Now the project is almost built out with maybe 600+ homes and about as many boat slips if you include the marina.

Oil on canvas 20"X24"
This painting is sold.

Kinnakeeters Yaupon Eaters (on local lore)(SOLD)

A tortured yaupon tree with its afternoon shadow against an ocean front house.

My work on this painting could be described as striving for imperfection. Painting this plant brings to mind a story I heard long ago from a local surveyor.

A fishing village on Hatteras Island had the reputation that the locals would eat yaupon berries (scientific name "Ilex Vomitoria")(eat the berries and you vomit) in an attempt to reach some type of euphoric high. In the early 1980's the village was incorporated. The locals decided to change the name of the village from Kinnakeet to Avon, North Carolina. The locals wanted to shed all remnants of their berry eating past and being jokingly referred to as "Kinnakeeters yaupon eaters".

Oil on canvas 22"X18" (SOLD)

Wanchese Sportfishers

More boats, different marina.

Oil on canvas 14"X16"

All along the bowline (aka) "Pink Boat"(SOLD)

I am enjoying this new subject matter. More of the charter fishing fleet docked in Pirates Cove Marina. World Class Billfishing every summer. Off shore fishing is always an adventure, and just seeing the gulf stream is worth the trip. 35 miles to the gulf stream.

oil on canvas 20"X14.25"(SOLD)