Beach Gulls (SOLD)

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

Oil on panel 12"X 24"

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Ole'

Cozy (SOLD)

Sometimes cozy scenes like this just give me the creeps!

Oil on panel 9"X12"

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Board Game

I liked the way this skimboarder turned out.

Oil on panel 11"X14"

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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"

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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"

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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"

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Laugh it up (SOLD)

oil on panel 6"X6"

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Tuna Study (SOLD)

Oil on panel 11"X14"

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Two blackfaced sheep

Oil on panel 6"X6"

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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"

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Reel Anxiety (SOLD)

This has been fun.

real anxiety. a Goliath Grouper

Oil on canvas 24"X24"

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Separation Anxiety (SOLD)

 Oil on canvas 18X24"

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No Wake (SOLD)

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

Oil on canvas 16"X20"

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My Gull Friday (SOLD)

 

 

 

 

what? It's friday.

Oil on canvas panel 6"X8"

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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.

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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.

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Oil on linen 18"X24"

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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"

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