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.

Please baby nodp

"Gimme back the money baby" Rev. Gary Davis

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

Avalon Lately (SOLD)

This is a painting of the Avalon Pier in Kill Devil Hills North Carolina in the spring one winter day.

I decided to stay as loose as was comfortable with this and I do like the effects. Certainly less labored.

Oil on canvas 8"X16"

Thanks for looking.
The house in "Rodanthe Night" Serendipity is being moved. It has been cut away from the pilings and is setting alongside of North Carolina Highway 12 with a moving truck under it.
click here for a live beachcam
(SOLD to a repeat collector in Reno)

If you missed the move. here is a youtube video of it.
click here

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.

 

Are you being served?

This is a painting of a Tennis Kid whiz that lives on the outer banks. Locals may recognize this photo. It was furnished to me by the person who took the photo. That person also happens to paint with me once a week. I am trying to get more info on this potential tennis pro.

Oil on canvas 12"X24"
this painting is no longer available. see 1/5/2011

Aggie Handiwork (13-0)(SOLD)

I am an Aggie and I heard the story that TAMU beat UT in a homegame in College Station by the score of 13-0 and some of the more creative aggies went to Austin late at night and found the UT mascot longhorn, and branded

"13-0"

 on the animals sides. The more creative University of Texas students filled in the e and v and BEVO had a name. I just thought you would want to know what really happened. This photo was furnished to me by Deb Linclon. Check out her stuff on Dailypainters.Com

Oil on canvas 24"x16"
This painting is sold.

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.

The Timid Lamb

These are more of Dar Peckam's Sheep. Dar used to have a lot of beef cattle. Now his wife raises sheep. Fancy ones too.

 He is a legend, or at the very least a myth.

If you are an artist, please tell me when can you call yourself a legend? and not be a myth or a parody.

Oil on canvas 16"X12"
If you would like to purchase this send me an email.

Bring it with you when you come(SOLD)

Take it with you when you go.

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

Bring it with you when you come (SOLD)

For me a work in progress can change in good ways. I decided to forget the architecture. I think it is an improvement. This is a very good exercise to see my works in progress next to my photos in thumbnail.

This painting is a work in progress. I decided to show you my subjects. I saw what Dana Cooper did with the 5 girls on a bench and here I come.  I decided to try to paint this because I did not think I could.   I am still not sure. Sometimes my works in progress should have stayed there or here or bring it with you when you come.

Now that we are discussing bring it with you when you come........

Someone bought "Serendipity" the house in Rodanthe in previous paintings and is moving it to a "safer" location. As a rule the minimum building  distance for a single family residence  from the ocean (MBL) (minimum building line) is determined this way.

 The erosion rate X The length of your mortage. 

an example.

A 30 year mortgage in an erosion zone determined to be 4 feet a year would be 120' back from the first line of stable vegetation, wherever that is....

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

Running Bird (SOLD)

Oil on canvas approx. 6"X6"
(SOLD to a repeat collector)

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?

Tennisball Nazis in Cabela's Outdoor Gear (SOLD)

These dogs were fun to paint.

Buddie and Oak.
I am going to get back to some type of abnormal soon.

Oil on canvas 12"X12
this painting is sold.

Sally, where'd you get your seafood from? (SOLD)

 I am posting this to show you how I start most of my paintings, and because I was too lazy to finish it and I want to draw this out till next year.

"Sally, where'd you get your liquor from?" Rev. Gary Davis

Oil on canvas 14"X10"

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)

EightySix BlueCrab

I keep painting these guys and now I know its time to move on and say

"Going to leave these blues behind"

 .Oil on canvas sort of  23"X 9"
this painting is no longer available.

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"

Nascrab

A blue crab moving fast

Oil on canvas 20"X16"

this painting is no longer available.

Hereford on Killing Floor

Hereford were the cattle that originally were used to repopulate the great plains after we killed all the buffalo. There are a lots of  exotic breeds now much better than herefords, but still a pale comparison to the buffalo. The hereford or red whiteface cattle with horns have been largely bred out of existence. 

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

Pacifics in Chains(SOLD)

This is Pacifics, a commercial fishing boat docked in Wanchese Harbor, on the Outer Banks of  North Carolina.
Oil on canvas 20"X16"
This painting is sold.

Crabzilla(SOLD)

This crab is sort of styling, if I may.

This is a abstract painting of a Coastal North Carolina blue crab by American Artist Rick Nilson.

Accept no substitute and copy no other.

I have a neighbor that runs a commercial crabbing buisness in his back yard. He has custom license plates that say,

"Crabzilla".

 I hardly know him anymore either.

Ahhh. Good Times.

I'm just tryin' to make some cents.

Oil on canvas 6"X8"
this painting is sold.

Cat on Killing Floor (SOLD)

When all santa gives you is the blues.
Who's gonna come if I'm good my way?

 little red rooster crows all day.

Who comes around on special nights?

wearing boots way too tight.

Must be santa.

Oil on canvas 9"X12"
This painting is sold

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.

Come on MeowMix, please deliver (a study in Feline) (SOLD)

these are my rules for a successful piece of art.

1. If it comes easy, I tell myself, "please let it be".

2.If I have a happy accident, I tell everyone I meant to do that. Including myself, and I believe it.

3. I am confident that I can paint more like Rick Nilson than anyone else on the planet.

4. I don't care if you like me or my work. I used to, but I don't know you anymore.
5. I will be crushed if you don't like my paintings.

Oil on canvas 8"X20"

(SOLD to a collector in Memphis)

Little Angel Mine (SOLD)

This painting has a glare in the photo that I don't know how to get rid of .

When I finish a painting that I am exceptionally proud of or that I really enjoyed painting, I find little ways to reward myself.

 I don't get weird about it though.

This is a blue crab painting by Rick Nilson.

Oil on canvas 8"X20"
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

The New Hula Blues(SOLD)

a blue crab painting by Rick Nilson

oil on canvas 7"X5"
(SOLD)

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)

Dancing with Roosters

Rooster at the Copa with a fresh coat of Rick Nilson

These birds are just having too much fun. "Off with their heads!" cried the Queen.

Oil on canvas 22"X16" (this painting is a gift)

Sure Miss Elvis

A still life involving a windup mickey mouse toy lamenting the untimely loss of his muse, Elvis Presley.
Void where prohibited by law.

Oil on canvas 9"X12"

Three Birds (SOLD)

Three Birds 150 bucks

Bob in South Dakota says I am the only artist that can paint his chickens. He's a wildman, he might get someone else to write you a letter. he'll do it too.  Don't ask about painting chickens out here on the outerbanks without the expressed written concent of Rick Nilson, Bob, The National Football League, and the American Egg Layers Assoc. Manteo Chapter

Void where prohibited by law.

This painting may be copied without notice.

Accept no substitute.

Oil on canvas 12"X16"

this painting is sold

Serendipity Now (SOLD)

This is from another photo furnished by my painting mate Mick. Serendipity again. I owe you Mick. For some reason this painting feels somber in a way that is hard to shake. I think the open electrical panel on the front of the house is the saddest element.  The elctrical panel and the house are both vacant. When a house is condemned they "pull the (meter) ". Similar to "pull the plug".

The perfect gift for Festuvus celebrations.

Serendipity Now.

Let our sales team stuff your stocking.

Oil  on canvas 16"X20"(SOLD)

No Dog and Pony Cow

"Were in the big time now, Jack", " we're not just a couple of macho men from the flea market"

A Rick Nilson Holstien Cow

Accept no substitute and Copy no other

oil on canvas panel approx. 10"X8"

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Price: $75 USD plus $6 USD s/h
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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.

Later that same evening in Rodanthe(SOLD)(Serendipity)

My mate Mick spends his nights mostly in Rodanthe these days. I asked him to take a picture of Serendipity, the house in "Rodanthe Nights". It has been an icon on Hatteras Island for as long as I can remember. The first oceanfront home after about 25 miles of National Park Service Property. From the very top of the Oregon Inlet Bridge you can see Rodanthe in the distance. Its really RodantheWavesSalvo.  "Richard Gere frolicking in the surf". Ahhh. Good Times.

Oil  on canvas 14"X10"

I am going to officially call this my 500th  painting.
(SOLD) to a repeat collector

Paroled Crab(SOLD)

He's going to mess with you.
This is an original oil painting of a beautiful swimmer crab by Rick Nilson.

Accept no substitute and Copy no other.

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

Charter Fleet Pirates Cove (SOLD)

When you can't think of any two words that gets your heart pounding like
 "FISH ON"
Then, son, you have reached a different part of your life. These boats are part of the charter fishing fleet in Pirates Cove Marina in Manteo, North Carolina.

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

Missed The A Train (what happens at the terminal, stays at the terminal)

I had several inspirations for this piece. I always have done little doodles of people doing extraordinary things. I liked the idea of the dancers. One of the painters at Dailypainters.com does wonderful dancers. Connie Chadwell. I have also watched a lot of the paintings come in at DSFDF. Once I was satisfied with the dancers, I began looking for a scene for dancers.  The colorful concrete floor of the terminal seemed like an easily recognizable icon. When I saw what Karin Jurick called her painting "Terminal Pace" and thought about all those poor people rushing around trying to catch their rides, the idea of  "Terminal Dancing" seemed like a nice change of pace.   I think I have missed the submission date for DSFDF, so indeed, I have ("Missed the A Train").

Accept no subsititue and copy no other.

A Rick Nilson Original.
Oil on stretched canvas 12"X9"

Legally Crab (Don't start me talkin") (SOLD)

This is an original oil painting of a blue crab by Rick Nilson. Accept no substitute and copy no other.

"Don't start me talkin', I'll tell everything I know."
Oil on Linen 16"X16"
She said she had information, if her named wasn't used.
(SOLD) to a collector in Vancouver Island, Canada
If you would like to buy a crab painting, I do commissions.

Atlantis and the sea

This is Hayman Street Beach Access in Kill Devil Hills looking south to Avalon Pier. The pictures in this post were taken in August of 2009 and the one above was taken after our last storm. Do you see any difference?
This was taken a few days after our last storm. You will see the yellow house called Atlantis, only the concrete portion is yellow. I have painted Atlantis before, see (Yell Oh) It has lost a lot of siding on the wood part of the structure. The stairs, decks and a lot of sand from the outer banks are a little closer to the Swanquarter, NC. This is my painting from a reference photo while driving south along  Virginia Dare Trail. Frank Sinatra was doing a Limp Biskit cover on the radio. There was a Starbucks Mocha Latte in the cup holder.
Oil on canvas 12"X24"