Red Shrimper (GONE)

Oil on canvas 14"X24"

This painting is no longer available.

Peeing Prohibited (SOLD)

Apparently peeing in front of this oceanfront house is prohibited.

That's fair.

Oil on canvas 12"X24"

this painting is sold

So much sand, So little time

Oil on panel 11"X14"

I like it.

Signing Crab (SOLD)

You can't make this stuff up.

Oil on canvas 18X18"

this painting is sold.

 

Egret in Minglewood (SOLD)

I used my drivers license like a palette knife.

Oil on canvas 12"X16"

this painting is sold.

Crab 101 (SOLD)

I am thinking this is probably my 101st crab. Viva La Crab.'

Oil on panel 8"X10"

This painting is sold.

Pier Action (SOLD)

I liked the colors on this fishing pier scene.

Oil on canvas 12"X20"

this painting is sold

Hens De Rhumba

Oil on panel 6"X9"

Owner Operator (SOLD)

Sketch of a Ford 4000

Oil on canvas 12"X16"

This painting is sold.

Blue in the Night (SOLD)

This canvas is wet and why is black such a hard color to photograph?

Oil on gallery wrap canvas  (1-1/4") 11"X14"

this painting is sold.

Yellow House Gallery

One of my gallery reps. asked me to paint her gallery in Nags Head. The outbuildings are the Annex and the Annex-annex.

Thanks Eve.

Oil on panel 10"X20"

this painting is sold.

Camel Racing

I have no idea........really.

Oil on panel 12"X16"

Last Leg Blues

Here stands a blue heron on his last leg.

not really.

Oil on panel 11"X14"

thanks for looking.

Orangeaid

I have spent a few great days fishing around Ft. Meyers Florida. We caught lots of seatrout and lots of redfish and pompano and mangro snapper and kingfish and jack crevalle and catfish and snook and a few other kinds.

Oil on panel 9"X18"

Chartreuse by the Bright Crystal Sea (SOLD)

This chartreuse house is in Kitty Hawk.

I thought this turned out well.

Oil on panel 12"X16"

This painting is sold.

Pica (SOLD)

Oil on panel 12"X16"

thanks for looking

This painting is sold.

Rank Stranger

I painted a buffalo without a reference photo.

"Rank strangers" are complete strangers. A folksong tells about a guy that goes home to see his old friends and instead finds them to be Rank Strangers.  Rodeo bulls are judged by their rankness.

Oil on canvas 18"X18"

General Tsos Horse

Here in this work I can barely remember a time just before the war.

Oil on canvas 18"X18"

this painting is no longer available.

Buffalo Back (SOLD)

This was fun.

Oil on panel 11"X14"

This painting is sold.

Blue Heron in Green

I might keep adding paint to this.

Oil on panel 10"X20"

This is no longer available.

Lambs at the Creep Feeder

Oil on panel 10"X20"

thanks for looking.

Girl in Purple

I have been painting every day.  I have about 10 paintings going at the same time. None of which seem ready for prime time. I liked my girl in purple. I made her up. But there is a glare on the photo.

I try to do different stuff. In the beginning, failure seems a less bitter pill.
Oil on panel 9"X10

Holy Cow

oil on panel 11"X14"

Good News Everybody.

Painter Rick Nilson will demonstrate and instruct a two day workshop designed to help students paint from their own photographs and how to use your computer as a painting tool. This class will be held Tuesday February 21 and Wednesday February 22 from 10:00-2:00. Students will supply their own materials for the class: acrylics, brushes and canvas. Cost for this two day workshop is $150. All proceeds from this workshop will be donated to the Outer Banks Community Foundation.

This workshop will be held in the upstairs studio at KDH Cooperative Gallery & Studios, milepost 8.5 in Kill Devil Hills.

Any questions regarding this contact Rick directly at ricknilson@gmail.com

Limited to 8 students.

Call 441-9888 to register for this 2 day workshop.

Julie Moye

KDH Cooperative Gallery & Studios

502 S. Croatan Hwy.

Kill Devil Hills, NC 27948

252-441-9888

www.kdhcooperative.com

Lucky Crab (SOLD)

Oil on panel 11"X14"

this painting is sold.

Steel Drum Chicken

Oil on panel 11"X14"

$225. shipping included.

ricknilson@gmail.com

Upwardly Mobile (SOLD)

upwardly mobile little birds

Oil on panel 8"X10"

This painting is sold.

Wanchese Skyline

I have been struggling to paint simple landscapes. Days seem to go by without much progress. The simple landscape is never all that simple. I do like this one.

Oil on panel 11"X14"

$200 shipping included.

thanks for looking.

Sometimes A Great Notion

(Tu Le Ton Son Ton)"Every now and then".

Oil on panel 12"X12"

Tyler's Nissan Commercial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bb1Cqsceos&feature=player_embedded

Jellyfish Fields

Oil on panel 9"X12"

Seagull Sampler (SOLD)

Oil on panel 10"X10"

This painting is sold.

Wide Open

I did this sketch sitting down watching my dog sleep. I have to get a life. Briefly she held her leg up in the air.

Oil on canvas 11"X14"

A Leg Up (SOLD)

I think the blue heron has a "leg up" on being coolest bird on the planet.

I bought some of the smoothest panels I have ever painted on. A Gessoed Art Board by Speedball.

This is my first time using these. They are so slick that it seems something must be wrong.

Oil on panel 11"X14"

this painting is sold.

FishWish

I never know when to stop painting on any particular piece of work. Often for me, less is more. I occasionally use my drivers license as a pallet knife.

Oil on canvas 18"X18"

I have donated this painting to the Dare County Arts Council

thank you DCAC.

Sunflowers (SOLD)

I started this blog originally to remind myself  that I was indeed out here most days, trying as best as I could, to craft this skill of being a painter. I made a pre-commitment to myself  in 2007 to do my best to excell at this. To be the best painter I was capable of being.  I never expected more. I never expected less. There was never a clear understanding of what my goal was. The appearance of success was never a distinct image or place or state of mind. It's a journey and I am pleased with most of the steps I have taken and with the progress I have made to date.

I found some dried sunflowers in my attic and plopped them in a vase and painted them.

Oil on panel 11"X14"

and now as this journey continues I sold this painting.

thank you.

Crawfish (SOLD)

no explanations pending or given.

Oil on panel 11"X14"

this painting is sold.

Cherries and Chiquitas (SOLD)

I painted a still life of fruit.

Oil on panel 6"X9"

this painting is sold.

King Craw

I bought crawfish. Not to fish with or to eat.

Just to taunt.

Oil on canvas 22"X28"

Under Wing

Oil on panel 14"X11"

Send me an email. I will sell you this painting of two seagulls.

$225 shipping included

ricknilson@gmail.com

Beyond Here Lies Nothing

These oceanfront houses on the beach road along the Outer Banks.

Oil on panel 11"X14"

Turtle Still Life

I painted this as a still life of baby turtles figurines coming out of the sand until, (for reasons unclear to even me) I moved them. Its always a good idea to leave your still life in the same place as you paint it. Much easier that way.  Lesson learned.

Oil on panel 11"X14"

Jumping at Shadows

This piece has so much transparent color on it that it does not really photograph very well. This scene had so little light that it felt like I was "jumping at shadows". 

It used to look like that and now it looks like this.

Oil on canvas 16"X20"

Nothing Works Out for Me with Tuna on Toast (SOLD)

Here Captain Wrongway shows an excellent example of what to name a painting if you want google to help others find it.

I liked the way this blue heron was scrunched up with his long legs out.

Oil on panel 12"X18"

Through a very odd set of circumstances this painting is sold.

FlashPan Dancer (SOLD)

Oil on panel 11"X15"

This painting is sold

Body Count and Delphinius (SOLD)

Not sure why someone would name their boat

"Body Count"

Oh well, here she is.

Oil on canvas 18"X18"

I donated this painting to the Outer Banks Hospital Cancer Resarch Center.

thank for looking.

Pelican on a Stick (SOLD)

Oil on canvas 16"X20"

ricknilson@gmail.com

This painting is sold.

Painting Kaylee Fisher (SOLD)

One morning I met my friend Mick in Wanchese.  We planned to do a plien aire painting of these guys painting their fishing boat, the "Kaylee Fisher". We got there a little late. When we arrived it  was obvious.  The painters had set up in the wrong place, just under the only tree on the lot. They failed to see my painting would have been better if I  was set up exactly where the boat sat. The dappled shade felt welcoming in the morning sun and threw odd shadows on the hull. The scene was not up to my artistic standards. I hesitated  asking them to move their job site from under the tree. I feared  they would not have seen validity of the request. 

None the less, I mucked on like a good soldier. Since, I have lamented not doing something with the images I photographed that day. I tried the same piece as a studio work in a larger size and moved the boat out into the morning sun. I think this is my best work to date,  I am quite pleased. And it's not just the pills talkin'.

Oil on canvas 16"X20"

this painting is sold.

Pink on the Outside. Wild on the Inside. (SOLD)

Good News Everybody.

I have been given one million pounds in the BT Millionares Sweekstakes.

Oil on canvas 8"X16"

This painting is sold

Nags Head Beach (SOLD)

This was kinda fun.

Oil on canvas 12"X16"

this painting is sold. thank you again.

Buy this painting on PayPal

Price: $250 USD plus $15 USD s/h

Or, send me an email

Elephant Rodeo

Scribble with no warning.

thank you all for looking. 

King on a Stick (SOLD)

For reasons unexplained.

Oil on canvas 9"X12"

this painting is sold