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Oil on panel 10"X20"

War Horse

This was just fun. making up horses.

oil on canvas panel 15"X9"

3 gulls in flight (SOLD)

I  am again liking these gulls.

My first recollection of seagulls was watching them fly behind the farm machinery and eat in mass whatever the farm equipment would stir up. At first they seemed like welcome company on those lonely trips back and forth across the fields.  They would eat earth worms until they were too heavy to fly. I questioned then how they fit into God's Plan for all things. Now that I am older I don't think about God's plans. She knew that they were put here to eat all that stuff we wouldn't. Besides, I don't like earth worms much anyway.

Oil on canvas 16"X20" 

this painting is sold.

Jersey Gull (SOLD)

I like the way this turned out.

Oil on panel 10"X10"

why don't you buy this painting?

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Sheila Rene (SOLD)

I struggled at first with a bit too much blue. I think I won the battle.

This is  "Sheila Rene" docked in Wanchese Harbour.

Oil on canvas 12"X24"

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Flying Gull (SOLD)

oil on panel 6"X6"

this painting is sold.

Calico Turning

Calico turning. My wife said, "I like the blue boat..."

I said, "...........yeah?..." She said, "yeah."

I was thinking, ".....what blue boat?"

Oil on canvas 11"X14"

Common Cause Way Fishing

5 guys fishing a common causeway. In this particular case, the US64 Causeway that separates Manteo and the outer banks of north carolina.

Oil on canvas 11"X14"

Grounded (SOLD)

Oil on canvas 11"X14"

I do like these blackfaced gulls. thanks for looking.

this painting is sold.

Alligator Burning

This is my interpretation of what the outer banks looked like one day last week when smoke from the fire at the Alligator River Refuge blew out of the southwest.

Oil on canvas 6"X12"

Welcome to the Jungle

(We've got fun and games)

Ghost crab and turtle.....perhaps a bit creepy all locked in time

Oil on panel 10"X12"

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Reel Chaos (SOLD)

I think this is enough paint. When I like a piece I will paint compuslively on it until I am satisfied with it or until I have killed it. I really do like how this one turned out, not overworked.

 I am posting my reference photo. If any of you painters would like to paint this boat, feel free. I would love to see how someone else would paint this. This is a new sportfisher named Reel Chaos that is being built in Wanchese, NC. I would guess it is a 70' plus?

 oil on canvas 12"X24"

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Shell Seeker

I have had a tough week. I have not been that eager to make a mistake.

Oil on panel 6"X8"

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Buzz Cuts (SOLD)

Hey, this is, (by my standards) my 900th painting. Originally I thought, "........well, maybe I will do....50." that was in Sept. 2007. Now I have some confidence I will see 1000. Most days I say a little prayer in thanks for being able to just one more, maybe a little better than the last. Some days it works.

oil on panel 6"X12"

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On The Pamlico (SOLD)

This little house is located on a hammock in the marsh overlooking the Pamlico Sound.

Oil on panel 8"X10"

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Losing Face (SOLD)

This is the biggest canvas I have ever painted on. this started off as a chance to stain a very large carvas that had been sitting neatly wrapped in celophane. I felt sort of a  guilty pleasure painting this in knowing it is pretty much of an unsellable piece.  Somehow a canvas of this size is intimidating in its very presence, you perhaps may know the feeling.  I like the unfinished quality of this. Accompanied with the sense of rightousness that comes with setting aside childish things, and then feeling somehow less foolish than had I carried this charade to an overworked death. I did not have a model to work from, not even a good photograph of a crab in this position, face or no. I am getting to know my subject quite well, and  take comfort in knowing that losing face for a softshell crab is far more tramatic and painful than it is for me.

 thanks for looking.

Oil on canvas 36"X48

 Below are some pictures of the New Fishing Pier in Nags Head. For those of you that are not familiar with softshell crabs, one of the things that happens to them is the face is cut off and the back is peeled away to clean it before it is fried or sauteed.

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closeout gulls (SOLD)

oil on canvas 8"X10"

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Gray Beards Seafood

This is Gray Beard's Seafood Co. in Wanchese, NC.

Oil on canvas 16"X20"

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Throw your panties overboard (SOLD)

Jump in to the lifeboat love, throw your panties overboard.

oil on canvas 9"X12"

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To have and have not (SOLD)

A blue crab painting by North Carolina Artist Rick Nilson

Oil on canvas 11"X14"

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Egrets

Oil on panel 8"X8"

Gull Friends (SOLD)

Oil on panel 8"X10".

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The Fish Mongers

Pirates Cove Marina has a fish cleaning house and someone will clean your catch while you wait.

If you ever go to Houston....no. I mean, if you ever go someplace nice, a nice marina with beautiful fishing boats like these, there is a very good chance that they (the boats) were built within 25 miles of where I live. This sweeping bowline is a signature look of fishing boats built on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. At the peak of our last economic turn there were no less than 20 companies building custom yachts in and around Wanchese. Today there are 3. The assemblages of such qualified craftsmen in one place building boats at one time may never happen again.

Oil on canvas 16"X20"

Back to the Outerlimits (SOLD)

I was going through some old pictures and found this boat painting I did about a year ago. For reasons unexplained, I posted it and then deleted the post. Here it is again. This is a scene in Pirates Cove Marina. The pink boat is the Outer Limits.

Oil on canvas 12"X24"

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Something in the water

 oil on canvas 18"X24"

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Flight Maneuvers

Flight maneuvers by a black pelican.

oil on panel 8"X10"

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BigEyes

This almost felt cruel the way I put paint on the slick surface. a scene in Wanchese Harbour with the BigEye.

Oil on panel 8"X16

I think this is sold. I think.

thank you.

Mock Turtle (SOLD)

a mock turtle

Oil on panel 6"X6"

This painting is sold.

Whats all this about then?

oil on panel 8"X10"

Oil on canvas 10"X10"

The first time I saw a flounder I thought, perhaps God also makes mistakes. The first time I heard someone say they were going to "gig" for flounder, (being an aggie), I gave them a thumbs up.

whoop?

Ethridge Seafood and Yellowfin (SOLD)

This is the back side, or rather, the waterfront side of Ethridge Seafood Co. in Wanchese, NC. One of the new worries for the local fishing and boating industry is, due to spending cuts, the US Army Corps. of Engineers will stop dredging Oregon Inlet. This has happened before and eventually dredging of the canal is resumed. If Oregon Inlet is not dredged regularily it will eventually close of its own accord. Oregon Inlet is the only inlet into the inland waters of the sounds from Rudee's Inlet in Virginia Beach to Ocracoke Inlet.  You can imagine what that would mean to boats like The YellowFin. Check it out on googlemaps.

 I like this one and I am starting to like the slick surfaces of panels.Thanks for looking

Oil on panel 10"X20"

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Brown Bat (SOLD)

I saw Van Gogh's bat. Thought it would be fun to paint one.

Oil on panel 8"X16"

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Old Fashion Caroleing Ducks (SOLD)

These are old fashion singing ducks, like your grandmother talked about.

You don't see them around much any more.

Oil on canvas 8"X10"

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Hurry Sundown (SOLD)

I painted this quite a while ago. It languished without much of a focal point. I added the guy working at the edge of the setting sun, and muted some of the other colors. I like it.

Oil on canvas 16"X20"

This painting is sold in 2021.

?Que Me Importa

A lot of things about my "studio" suck. The natural lighting is poor, and it is hot in the summer and cold in the winter. The views of the late afternoon sun across Ablemarle Sound, and Avery Pond and the marsh islands on the west side  is not one of those things.

What do I care?

 The sunset last night was amazing.

Oil on panel 10"X16"

I have a frame for this.

Chicken (SOLD)

Oil on panel 8"X10"

this painting is sold.

Passing the Bar

a bar scene along the beach.

Oil on panel 6"X12"

Buckets of earring

oil on masonite 6"X6"

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Sailboats (SOLD)

Oil on canvas 6"X12"

This painting was bartered for an Air Conditioning System.

Thanks RichAir

Pit Boss

Oil on canvas 11"X14"

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Black Crow

Oil on canvas 6"X8"

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Mostly Blue

I painted this mostly blue.

Oil on canvas 9"X12"

Sunset Babies (SOLD)

 I love this subject and I feel it does capture a moment in time and perhaps memories of a warm summer day along the outer banks of north carolina.

When I was thinking about a name for this painting of babies playing in the surf at sunset and dogs and The Nags Head Fishing Pier as a back drop, well, the first thing that popped into my head was,.......... of course,

 "SUNSET BABIES (ALL GOT RABIES)".

This must be what Alice Cooper was singing about.

Oil on canvas 36"X24"

I have had fun with this piece.

this painting is sold.

Putting on Luminaires (SOLD)

This building has a name and a nice location.

Marshes Light on the waterfront in Manteo, NC.

It was built in those heady times long after lighthouses became obsolete and turned into icons of places we want to visit and linger.

Oil on canvas 24"X12"

this painting is sold.

New Moon (SOLD)

I took the reference photo I used for this painting last fall. It was not after I had cropped it and printed it and had the painting half finished that  I looked at the photo of the sky and almost invisible was the new moon directly in the center of my sky.

I am quite pleased with this painting of the Kitty Hawk Pier at sundown.

Oil on canvas 12"X24"

. thanks for looking.

this painting is sold

Pelican on the fly

Oil on stretched canvas 9"X12