Leavin' Trunk(SOLD)

About This Painting:
Most weeks in the summer 20,000 families unload and then pack their leavin' trunks on the outer banks of north carolina.
this painting is sold.

Blue Minor (SOLD)

About This Painting:
This girl is being dragged through the surf by someone I do not know. I see nothing to be gained by any type of explanation.
There's no words that need to be said. other than, "this painting is sold"

The Lifeguard (SOLD)

About This Painting:

this is a lifegaurd watching the outer banks of north carolina.

Oil on canvas

this painting is sold.

Healthcare Crab (SOLD)

In a grandstand prank aimed directly at  health care reform, this north carolina bluecrab tears off its own claw, and hopelessly clouds the issue. If you would like to have this painting, send me an email.

Oil on canvas 24"X24"
This painting is sold.

Good Kitty, Play Dead Kitty (SOLD)

Cindy said when our old cat dies we should get a puppy.

In an act of unwavering gratitude for all the good years we have given her, this cat walked right out in the driveway and assumed the position. She recovered, but I am watching closely thinking border collie.

There is a lot of open or negative space on this canvas. I call it "not kitty".

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

Bestiole Amie (SOLD)

About This Painting:
The smart continental calls them Bestiole Amie. Thats french for lady bug.   I painted this in a workshop demo. One of the ladies brought the photo from her garden. Immediately after explaining the fatal error of putting the focal point in the middle of the canvas, I did exactly that. To lessen that feel, I used a technique I am fumbling with.  I intentionally blur or soften a  balance of  the edges. Check out Karin Jurick's people. Thanks Karin. I blurred enough of the bug to bring the focal point to the face in the lower middle. Still not the best solution, but it doesn't, you know, "...bug me, my wee mouton".
this painting is sold.

Dog Walk (SOLD)

This girl was walking her dog along the beach on the Outer Banks of North Carolina

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

Serendipity Revisited (SOLD)

This is the house in Rodanthe Nights. It was moved earlier this year.

The house is on the outer banks of north carolina.

I decided to add more paint to this until I was satisfied. I believe I am.

Oil on canvas 16"X20"

This painting is sold.

Pine Grove Blues(SOLD)

oil on canvas 20"X16"

This painting is sold

Pine Grove Blues

         

The Godspell according to Rick Nilson. Alla Prima.  I having been feeling very "punie" for the last 4 days. I have made some progress on this, but I like best my alla prima work or the stuff I do in one setting and it is difficult to maintain interest in the work over several days or sessions. So now I post this questioning my morality, no I mean mortatilty. I felt you deserved to know and I didn't call in sick. I think I may nominate myself as employee of the month.

I am calling this progress.

I am lazily approaching a crazy commission. This is a sketch work in progress.

Oil on canvas 16"X20"

Red Lobster (SOLD)

I host a painting workshop in my studio on most tuesdays. Today we all painted red lobsters.

Here is mine.

This painting is sold.

 

Kitty Hawk Reds

About This Painting:
These little red oceanfront cottages in Kitty Hawk always seem so paintable. I painted this quite a while ago and I have painted these houses several times.

Media: oil on stretched canvas
Size: 24 in X 12 in (61 cm X 30.5 cm)
Price: $265 USD

How to Purchase:

Buy this painting on PayPal
Price: $265 USD plus $21 USD s/h
Or, send me an email

Galant Fox(SOLD)

About This Painting:
This is a boat that fishes out of Wanchese Industrial Seafood Park in the waters around the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
This painting is sold.
Media: oil on stretched canvas
Size: 11 in X 14 in (27.9 cm X 35.6 cm)

Nags Head Rag (SOLD)

 I didn't feel so bad until the good lord struck me down.
Thanks for looking.
Oil on canvas 10"X24"
This painting is sold

A Lot Like Ewe On Bitter Lake(SOLD)

This is just like ewe on Bitter Lake. My Wee Mouton.
 I have got to get back to painting the beach I love so close at hand.

Oil on canvas 20"X20"

This painting is sold.

"Ewe on the Coolin' Board" (Death Letter)

I have a doctor's note and a perscription for vicadin. I had a wisdom tooth pulled and I feel equally as wise  as before the incident occured. When I first started painting I did not know there was a difference between fine linen and the duck canvas they sell at Walmart. I bought Walmart canvas duck and bought 1x pine at Home Depot for the stretchers. I then put one thin layer of gesso on the canvas. I then painted something with acrylic paint. That was a couple of years ago.  In the first few brush strokes of painting these sheep on Bitter Lake

 I realized I did not have enough gesso on this canvas. No wonder I wore out so many brushes. This canvas is like painting on stucco or devils hide sandpaper. I think I will try this again on a different type of canvas. I told you that this whole painting thing has been trial and error right from the gitgo.

 Bitter Lake is expanding rapidly and has taken much or all of this pasture. More than the pasture the south end of Waubay is threatened by the  rising water of Bitter Lake. I have studied it some in google and it appears that the airport in Watertown may have been the final manmade dam that held back most of the runoff from west of Summit. As a land planner  I see this as  a golden opportunity to redesign Watertown. Odd how the names seem so obvious to the telling of this particular "yarn" It is imporatant in the telling of any good story to be keen enough with your wit to know when to stop the telling.

Oil on "canvas"24"X24"

This painting no longer available.

Ready Set Crab

Ready, set, everybody crab.
this painting is sold.

Your Name Here (SOLD)

About This Painting:

When I was a kid I wanted a tee shirt like the ones I saw advertised with the girl and the guy standing there proudly modeling the bold text saying "Your Name Here". When I started painting this it seemed appropriate to add my own POV.   A blatant go at art appealing to the masses. This little house is in Nag's Head across from "Jockey's Ridge""Between the Highways"

Media: Oil on stretched canvas

Size: 12 in X 20 in (30.5 cm X 50.8 cm)

this painting is sold.

Johnny Too Crab(SOLD)

A blue crab original by Outer Banks Artist Rick Nilson

Accept no Substitute. Copy no Other.

Oil on canvas 10"X20"

This painting is sold.

Shorebirds (SOLD)

Oil on canvas 9"X12"
this painting is sold.

Little Red Rooster(SOLD)

This is my first go on the little 6X6 tiles.

Oil on panel 6X6
Thanks for looking.
This painting is sold.

Bitter Lake Two Step(SOLD)

These are my favorite sheep on Bitter Lake.

Oil on canvas 8"X20" Thanks for looking.
This painting is sold.

Foggy Duck Breakdown (SOLD)

About This Painting:

This is a foggy white duck that lives on the big island of "Collington" on the outer banks of north carolina.

This painting is SOLD.

On the Waterfront(SOLD)

This is a scene in Downtown Manteo NC.

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

Dire Frog

Oil on canvas 36"X24"
This painting is no longer available.

Nice Kitty (mule drama)

These are Cindy's Shoes. There is a town not far from here called, Mashoes, North Carolina. Sometimes I wander around the house asking about that place. "Where are Mashoes?"

Oil on canvas 14"X11"

If you would like to own these send me an email.

Joe Pete done Gone(SOLD)

Suddenly one spring day late last fall I took this picture of a beach access and one of the remaining one story ocean front homes in Southern Shores. Originally part of "Millionaires Row" a string of houses on the oceanfront in Southern Shores along the outer banks of North Carolina. Most have met the wrecking ball. Southern Shores is the meanest town I know.

Oil on canvas 10"X30"
This painting is sold.

Any Time Now

Shore bird

Oil on canvas 18"X18"

Ready, Set, Everybody Holstien

Ahh, these good times are killing me.

Oil on canvas 9"X12"

Nouvelle Heron Blues (SOLD)

This guy spends winters in my back yard.

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

Stranded, Caught in the Crosswalk (SOLD)

I have been painting this surfer on two different canvases at two different beach accesses for the last 2 days. Indeed, and then I realized it was me.

"Stranded, caught in the crosswalk."
Oil on canvas 16"X12"
This painting is sold.

White Avenue Jam(SOLD)

This is White Avenue Beach Access in Kitty Hawk. Its the first beach access south of John's Drive In.

Oil on Canvas 14"X11

If you would like to purchase this painting send me an email.

Today I turned over a group of my paintings to a gallery in New Bern, North Carolina.

Check it out. They promised to include me on thier list of artists soon.

This painting is sold.

Helga Street(SOLD)

I am considering doing a series of painting of the beach accesses along the Outer Banks of North Carolina. This is Helga Street in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. Oil on canvas 24"X12"
This painting is sold.

Kosher Crawfish

Oil on canvas 8"X16"
When I painted this I was trying to put this my crawfish on jade mosaic as a background. It changed the scale of the subject in an interesting way.
"The Last Crawfish on Jade"
this painting is no longer available.

Nouvelle 'chese Boat (SOLD)

There is a glare on this photo. The paint is still very wet.

This red boat is docked in Wanchese Harbor, Wanchese North Carolina.

Oil on canvas 8"X16"

this painting is sold

Nags Head Beach Access(SOLD)

Some one asked me if OBX stood for Out of Body eXperience. Only on vacation. This is a beach access along the beachroad. In a way this painting is opening an entire new scene of paintings to me. I am kind of excited about this piece.

Oil on canvas 20"X16"

This painting is SOLD.

This is all I need, and maybe that ashtray

This is a rough sketch I started this afternoon. I don't think i will finish it right now. This is all I need, and that and this thing, and that other deal over there. I looks a lot like the one I just painted a few days ago.

Oil washes on canvas 20"X16"

Canadas on Ice (SOLD)

These are Canada Geese and not Canadian Geese.

Canadians are people with DNA similar to regular people.

Oil on Canvas 11"X14"

This painting is SOLD

 

Jole Blons

I am trying to backlight a cold scene. I keep changing the ground and then the sky and then the wool and then the............I keep adding more and more paint to this. I wanted to look at it in thumbnail. Does anybody but me do that? Do you ever see that one thing that should have been so obvious? I think looking at your work in thumbnail is better than any mirror or upside down.

Oil on canvas 14"X11"

Big Island Crabber (SOLD)

Oil on canvas 20"X16" (This painting is SOLD)

Cajun Waltz (SOLD)

I had fun changing this again and again. A North Carolina Blue Crab all red.

Oil on canvas 24"X16"
This painting is sold.

The Last BlueCrab in Pink Floyd (SOLD)

About This Painting:

This is a painting of the last blue crab in Pink Floyd. You know what that means.

this painting is sold.

Grab Ass on Bitter Lake (SOLD)

There is a lake in South Dakota called Bitter Lake. It is called so because it has the lowest elevation of all of the glacial lakes in north eastern South Dakota. Bitter Lake collects a lot of sediment from all the other lakes. I took pictures of all the farm animals in that pasture on Bitter Lake last year and there were a variety of them. I am going back to South Dakota this summer. The weather there in the summer is usually as nice as it is brutal in the winter. I look forward to it.
 Oil on canvas 11"X14"
this painting is sold

Your uncle Louie shows up in Cabana Wear

Your uncle Louie shows up in Cabana Wear

About This Painting:
We painted this today in a workshop I host in my studio. This is Leslie's uncle Louie in his traveling suit.
This painting is no longer available.

Wild Hog Charters (SOLD)

Wild Hog Charters

About This Painting:
Wild Hog Charters is a 55' sportfishing boat moored in Pirates Cove Marina on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. I waited until the sun was setting along the leading edge of the hull.
This painting is sold.

Kentucky Derby Day

Cokes's for horses.
Pencil sketches