Oregon Inlet (SOLD)

Sportfishers in Oregon Inlet Marina

Oil on canvas 16"20"

this painting is sold.

Calico in Blue

This is my cat Shirley.

Oil on panel 11"X14" $265 plus $12 shipping

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Slip Sliding Away

I am struggling with how to crop and photo my paintings. Thus the little black line on the left. Anyway, enough about that. I will take another photograph if it bothers you that much.

  Here is a skimboarder  about to catch a down hill slide to the surf.

 Ancient Proverb: Fall down 7 times, get up 8.

Oil on panel 11"X14"

$275 plus $12 shipping

Without Agenda (SOLD)

My computer suffered a fatal virus and I got a new one, and with that will be a new learning curve. I painted seagulls! No agenda.

Oil on panel 11"X14"

Thanks for looking

this painting is sold.

Razzo "The Rocket"

This is Razzo and the boat behind is Capt. Skyler

It seems like I have spent a lot of time on this. Not always a good thing to do. Some of that time was more enjoyable than other times. Such is life and painting.

Razzo sits in boatyard in Wanchese and is scheduled for demolition.

Oil on canvas 16"X20"

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

 

Fishing Frenzy (SOLD)

here is a my rendition of a photo taken by the captain of the Fishing Frenzy, a charter fishing boat docked in Oregon Inlet Marina. Nice fish.

I never do this. This is from a photo I ripped on facebook. I did this painting as a gift for a nice lady that does a lot for dogs all across the continent. I hope she and the Captain of the Fishing Frenzy like it.

Thanks for looking

Oil on panel 11"X14"

 

Where's Waldo (SOLD)

Somehow this seemed appropriate and then sometimes I wonder , "Where's Waldo?"

Oil on panel 11"X14" 

This painting is sold.

Trinity (SOLD)

These things are always setting around and they seem so "paintable" and I enjoy painting still lifes of these things,

and sometimes people buy them. I like that.

Oil on panel 9"X12"

and then just like that this painting is sold. thank you.

sincerely, rick nilson (pinter of seafood)

 

Heron Study (SOLD)

This felt quick and easy.

11"X14" Oil on panel

This painting is sold.

Inquiring Gull (SOLD)

Oil on panel 8"X10"

this painting is sold.

Shorebirds at the Water's Edge (SOLD)

These shorebirds are always fun to paint.

Oil on panel 12"X24"

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this painting is sold. 

The Shapes I'm In

This is a painting of the shapes of these boats in dry storage in Wanchese, North Carolina. I painted this as "loosey" as I would allow myself and concentrated on just the shape and feel of these boats.

That's my story.

Oil on panel 12"X24"

dunkashien. this painting is no longer available

Egrets (SOLD)

this painting is sold.

Heron and the Crab

Heron and the Crab

9 -1/2"X12" Oil on panel

$275 plus $12 shipping

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Lifeguards (SOLD)

Lifeguards on duty at the end of Kitty Hawk Road.

Oil on panel 12"X24"

This painting is sold.

Thank you all.

The Original Horse of a Different Color (SOLD)

I enjoyed painting this horse of a different color that lives on Kitty Hawk Road.

Oil on panel 12"X24"

"Whitey" as he was known died the other day at the ripe old age of 43.
This painting is sold.

The Wharf

Attention Bredrin.

Rick Nilson has painted the Wharf Restaurant in Wanchese, North Carolina.

Behold.

Oil on panel 12"X24"

Beach Gulls (SOLD)

I was satisfied with the way these herring gulls at the beach turned out.

Oil on panel 12"X 24"

this painting is sold.

Ole'

Cozy (SOLD)

Sometimes cozy scenes like this just give me the creeps!

Oil on panel 9"X12"

This painting is sold.

Board Game

I liked the way this skimboarder turned out.

Oil on panel 11"X14"

thank you for coming to my blog.

This time I mean it.

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Sailfish Cadillac of the Sea (SOLD)

These must be considered the Cadillac of the Sea with such fins.

Oil on panel 11"X14"

This painting is sold.

Feels Like Seafood (SOLD)

You can't make this stuff up. In this painting I am all about painting the way seafood  feels or the impression of the seafood. Just like the way you would paint the feeling of a landscape and not the things in the landscape. It is hard to know when you finally do get it right. I will let you be the judge.

Oil on panel 11"X14"

This painting is sold.

 

Light Up Anxiety (SOLD)

The first time I saw a bullnose dolphin or mahi-mahi in the bottom of the boat, I thought "...what manner of mutant fish is this?" Just before they die, dolphin and other fish, "lightup" in a way that causes them to look florescent against the dark blue of the Atlantic gulf stream.  They are called the perch of the sea.

Oil on panel 11"X14"

thank you

this painting is sold.

Laugh it up (SOLD)

oil on panel 6"X6"

this painting is sold.

Tuna Study (SOLD)

Oil on panel 11"X14"

This painting is sold.

Two blackfaced sheep

Oil on panel 6"X6"

$100 free shipping

High Anxiety (SOLD)

The sight of a citation Wahoo coming down on a surface bait.

In your lifetime there are few moments you remember.  This scene from 18 plus years ago, in the middle of a  perfect day fishing the gulfstream, is one of mine.

Oil on panel 10"X16"

Thanks for looking

this painting is sold.

Reel Anxiety (SOLD)

This has been fun.

real anxiety. a Goliath Grouper

Oil on canvas 24"X24"

This painting is sold.

 

Separation Anxiety (SOLD)

 Oil on canvas 18X24"

This painting is sold.

No Wake (SOLD)

I have been working on everything and nothing and back again.

Oil on canvas 16"X20"

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thank you all.

This painting is sold.

 

My Gull Friday (SOLD)

 

 

 

 

what? It's friday.

Oil on canvas panel 6"X8"

this painting is sold.

Eckener

This beach access in Kitty Hawk was most likely named for this guy.

Dr. Hugo Eckener (10 August 1868 – 14 August 1954)^[1][2][3] was the manager of the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin during the inter-war years, and also the commander of the famous Graf Zeppelin for most of its record-setting flights, including the first airship flight around the world, making him the most successful airship commander in history. He was also responsible for the construction of the most successful type of airships of all time. An anti-Nazi who was invited to campaign as a moderate in the German presidential elections,^[1][4][5] he was blacklisted by that regime and eventually sidelined.

Maybe this is too much information?

What?

Everybody is wearing them.

Oil on panel 12"X16"

Bleriot

 French aviator who in 1909 made the first flight across the English Channel (1872-1936)

I painted on this for what seemed like a long time. I can hardly remember when I wasn't painting on this beach access at the end of Bleriot Street in Kitty Hawk.  Hope I don't go senile.

I think this guy caught a bluefish!

Oil on panel 12"X16"

#2 in my Beach Access Series. 

Waiting on Nurishment

I have decided to take on a series. I plan to paint some of the beach accesses along North Carolina Highway 12. I am starting at the north end of Kitty Hawk. This house is just over the dune on the south side of Bieriot Street. I do not think it will be around to see any beach nourishment and the place is not habitable, but it has a lamp in the window on the back side.

Thanks for looking

Oil on panel 12"X16"

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Everybody sees you on your window ledge

"....how long is it going to take,

 for you to get off the edge"

"Tell Me Mama" Blind Willie McTell

 

The girl in Rome.

Oil on panel 12"X16"

 

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Bubbles

Picasso said "inspiration likes to find you working in the studio."

To that end I have been grinding away days and days painting things and drawing things that could not hold my interest and showed it.

I think this one has a bit of drama. Bubbles.

Thanks for looking.

Oil on linen 18"X24"

This painting was donated to someplace.

 

The Stinton Ranch Dude, where are the cows? (SOLD)

I must admit to smiling more than once while painting this.

Just don't go there girlfriend.

If you go to the Stinton Ranch looking for cows, well dude, just forget about it. There's no cows in Nag's Head.

Oil on canvas 18"X24"

This painting is sold.

 

The Duck Stopper

My grandfather was a duck stopper.

Oil on panel 9"X12"

$275 plus 12 shipping

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The man wore a tie hunting!

 

Watch Your Step

Oil on canvas 16"X20"

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I donated this painting to some cause.

 

 

A Nag's Head Scenario (SOLD)

This is a commission I am doing for a friend, and a work in progress at that. 

 Still too much red?

 You think?

 

Not such good news.

My mother died a few days ago. She was 94. Rosemary. For the last 10 months she has been in a care facility in South Dakota. I have been calling her every day for the past year. Needless to say I miss her and our converstions and everything seems so sad.

 I am going to South Dakota for a while. There is still 3 feet of snow there. What's that all about?

I have been faithful and do something artistic every day. Mostly, of late, my efforts  have not satisfied me enough to post them. 

I read somewhere that painting is one thing that gets harder to do the more you know about it. If that be true, then I may be really close to mastering oil painting!

 I am still busy working on my remodel/renovation project.

Thank you all.

Oil on  canvas 60"X42'

This painting is sold.

a Nag's Head Scenario

Children at Work

I have been back and forth with this and revised it more than I would care to admit.

I should do more of these.

Oil on canvas 12"X16"

$275 plus $12 shipping

Thanks for looking

Ibis in the Morning (SOLD)

I thought I was being so clever with this title.  I did a google search for "ibis in the morning"

and just like everything else, somebody has already done that. I am not detoured. If there is an original thought out there, it should be revealed to me, mui pronto.

Oil on panel 8"X10"

This painting is sold.

In the Mangroves

I have been working on this for days. I wiped away the green more than once.

Oil on canvas 16"X20"

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

thanks for looking

 

Balance (SOLD)

Builds strong bodies! Happy Birthday to me.

Oil on panel 11"X14"

this painting is sold.

It was this big crab (SOLD)

Behold a blue crab painting by Rick Nilson

Oil on panel 4 1/2" X 13 1/2" 

this painting is sold.

On Duty

 

Here is a lifeguard on duty along the Beach Road in my town.

Oil on panel 8"X10"

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Price: $150 USD plus $10 USD s/h

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Steel Away(SOLD)

Oil on canvas panel 6"X8"

hello kitty.

this painting is sold.