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.