Chickadees (SOLD)

Oil on panel 6”X8”

This painting is sold.

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Heron

Oil on canvas 10”X8”

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Beach (SOLD)

Oil on canvas 10”X20”

Ricknilson@gmail.com

This painting is sold.

 

When I come back as a Pelican (SOLD)

Oil on canvas 8"X24"

This painting is sold.

 

The Fish Pond (SOLD)

This was a fun painting. 

Oil on canvas 8"X10"

this painting is sold.

 

We're Driving Cadillacs in our Dreams

I became obsessed with this. Sometimes that happens. Be grateful when it does happen.

Life is short. Oil on canvas 24"X36"

We will never be Royals.

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Ravaged in the Corn (SOLD)

Here is a painting of a farm in Webster Township. I took this photo a few years ago and I don't know if this barn is still standing. Corn and soybeans have replaced almost everything!

Oil on linen 16"X20"

This painting is sold.

Lazarus (SOLD)

Oil on canvas 12”x24”

this painting is sold.

Frequent Flyers

These sparrows are the most frequent visitors to my bird feeder.

Oil on canvas 12”X24”

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Cardinal (SOLD)

Oil on canvas panel 9”X12” 

This painting is sold.

Thanks again.

Colorful Shrimp (SOLD)

Oil on canvas 16"X20"

I want to sell this. So...

your move.

Good move! 

This painting is sold.

The Paint Job (SOLD)

I do like this subject. Men at work

Oil on canvas 16"X20"

Wanchese NC.

This painting is sold.

Fat Cardinal (SOLD)

Oil on panel 8"X10"

This painting is sold.

Avalon addition

Oil on canvas 12"X16"

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Peacock

Oil on canvas 12"X24"

Wow! Here is my 1900th painting post on this blog.  #1900

I have learned a lot. 

You could buy this. 

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Peacock Study (SOLD)

This was fun. I can do more.

ricknilson@gmail.com

this painting is sold.

thanks for looking

Silver Shrimp (SOLD)

Oil on panel 11"X14"

This painting is hole.

Staycation Study(SOLD)

Oil on canvas 12"X16"

this was fun. 

ricknilson@gmail.com

thanks 

This painting is sold.

Rogie

Oil on canvas 30"X40"

Here is a commission I did for some nice people. 

Rogie and Buzz.  I liked the "conversation happening between the little girl and the lifeguard.

thanks for looking

Power Rangers in Repose

Oil on canvas 12"X24"

loved it.

thanks for looking

rick nilson

Jennette’s(SOLD)

Oil on canvas 10”x20”

This paining is sold.

Pink (Sold)

Oil on canvas 10”x20”

This paining is sold.

2 Mccaws (SOLD)

Oil on canvas 12”X24”

This painting is sold.

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Red Mccaw

Here is a parrot study I painted.

Oil on canvas 11”x14”

Hot and Green (SOLD)

I painted this in a facetime session with my daughter. I would love to tell you it was brutal, but it was not painful really.

Oil on panel 9"X12"

This painting is sold

TikTok (SOLD)

Oil on panel 12"X16"

In case you haven't figured out what tiktok is all about, I did this as a public service (of sort) to show you what it is all about.

please send questions about this piece or anything else that confuses you to: 

This painting is sold.

thank you and you are welcome.

1114 crab (SOLD)

Good news everybody. I believe this painting is sold.

11"X14" Bluecrab

thanks for looking.

Rick Nilson

Rooster(SOLD)

thanks again.

Oil on canvas 16”X20”

This painting is sold.

Radishes with butter

Oil on panel 9"X12"

you can own this.

$150 delivered.

ricknilson@gmial.com

Flamingo A'la Orange (SOLD)

I photographed this with my cellphone. 

Oil on canvas 18"X24"

buy this you could.

this painting is sold.

Flamingo Con Limone (SOLD)

Oil on canvas 18"X24"

this painting is sold.

Three Mares (SOLD)

I still try to paint most days. I am seldom satisfied with the results. I painted these Corolla mares and a bunch more pieces that I am trying to fix to my satisfaction. It is a process. One of my professors at TAMU told me that my drawings looked like a battlefield. He went on to say that I used the paper to resolve the issues. I guess I paint the same way.

Oil on canvas 20"X30"

This painting is sold.

Cardib (SOLD)

my cardinal

Oil on panel 9"X12"

this Painting is sold 

Big Blue (SOLD)

I have been thinking about doing this type of image and here is another. A blue heron and stuff.

Oil on canvas 24"X36"

This painting is sold

Thanks for looking.

Witnesses (SOLD)

They know something.

I worked on this for a lot of hours while recovering from back surgery.

Oil on stretched canvas 24X36

thanks for looking

This painting is sold.

The Other Woman(SOLD)

I have always loved the name of this boat.

Oil on canvas 30"X40"

I have been using my cellphone to photo these and it seems to work as well as my old Olympus which looks like a relic covered in a million paint smudges.

This painting is sold.

Horse Study (SOLD)

Oil on canvas 11”X14”

this painting is sold.

Three Orioles

Oil on canvas 11"X14"

3 White Pelicans (SOLD)

Oil on canvas 10”X20”

this painting is sold.

Three Sparrows

Three sparrows

Oil on panel 9"X12"

$175 free shipping

ricknilson@gmail.com

thanks for looking

Nuthatches (SOLD)

Oil on panel 9”X12”

This painting is sold.

Conformists (SOLD)

Oil on canvas 11"X14"

Chicadees 

This painting is sold

Yell-Oh Finch (SOLD)

I did a series of birds. here are some yellow ones.

Oil on canvas 11"X14"

This painting is sold.

Saturated Ranch Scene

This painting is saturated with colors.

You know what I'm talking about.

The Stinton Ranch looks out to the Alblemarle Sound.

Oil on canvas 12"X16"

$250 free shipping

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Red (SOLD)

Oil on panel 

This painting is sold.

Electric Avenue (SOLD)

Good news everybody! This blue crab painting is sold.

thanks for looking.

this painting is sold

Fish Pond Plan View (SOLD)

These are always fun and rewarding.

Oil on canvas 24"X24"

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This painting is sold.

A bit of Avalon (SOLD)

Oil on canvas 8"X16"

This painting is sold.

Cone Flowers (SOLD)

Oil on panel 6"X8"

Sometimes I do a little painting like this and  manage to sell it before I post it. Thank you, Lord for everything. 

Last spring on a warm morning my dog was barking insistently at something on the other side of the fence. I came closer and noticed a decent size water moccasin as still as a stone coiled with it's cottony white mouth agape with fangs showing. The snake stayed in that position as I managed to distract my dog and avert  what was sure to be death of something, either the snake or the dog, or both.

 As I was leaving my home in my pickup one day this summer I noticed that water moccasin in the road in front of me, offering itself as roadkill for my pleasure. Another car was coming up from behind me and I was sure that if I swerved to avoid killing it, the car behind me would certainly take that opportunity. I stopped in the middle of the street and got out of my car and gently urged the snake into the woods next to my house.

Perhaps a week ago,  I witnessed an event in nature that is work remarking. I am aware that every winter for years a particular blue heron comes to spend time along the water's edge near my house. Some mornings I find him perched on one leg on a piling in my back yard. I saw him last week across the canal. He stood next to the bulkhead with what appeared to be a catfish in his beak. I looked closer and saw it was not a fish, but what I am sure was the snake I had twice spared in recent months. The heron banged his beak and the snake coiled around it several times against the bulkhead and over the next 5 minutes the bird swallowed the snake whole.

I witnessed the wonder of life and death in that moment, and I am grateful for it.

this painting is sold.