Kitty Hawk Crabber (SOLD)

I drive past this boat on my way out of Kitty Hawk. There are a lot of crab boats like this in the canals on Outer Banks of North Carolina. These boats are used to  fish for blue crab in the Currituck, Alblemarle and Pamlico Sounds.
If you would like this painting for your wall, send me an email.

Oil on canvas 11"X14
This painting is sold.

Wanchese Sportfishers

More boats, different marina.

Oil on canvas 14"X16"

Romancing the Crab (SOLD)

Oil on canvas 14"X14" (SOLD)

Shrimp#10 (SOLD)

I taped a piece of pre-gessoed linen to a piece of plywood. I will have to mount it on a board of some fashion in order to sell or display this painting. I have not done this before, I usually build my own frames and stretch my own canvas. Prepared linen is a luxury. The linen panels are wonderful. It makes duck canvas feel like painting on gravel.

Oil on linen 10"X20"

this  painting is sold

The outdoor shower (SOLD)

Outdoor showers are wonderful things. I have one in my back yard with a nice rose growing up the side. Ouch! Some time in May I begin using it every day until it gets too cold. I would say that 95+% of the homes on the outer banks have outdoor shower's. Few are used more than mine. Mine also offers more privacy than this one.
Oil on linen 18"X18" (SOLD)

Marvin dies with a tit in his hand (SOLD)

Marvin Nygaard married Helen Nilson. Soon after they bought a farm just down the hill from Tabor Church. Tabor Church cemetery has a lot of headstones with names like Nilson, and Rickmo, and Nygaard. Like most of the farms in the area, Marvin had dairy cows. Everyday he would rise at 4:00 AM, and milk his cows. He would feed them, and he would eat something. Marvin would go to his "day" job in town. At the end of another day, he would return home and milk his cows for the final time that day, feed them, and finish the rest of his daily chores. He would go up to the house and eat. In the spring of the year Helen often spoke kind words and coached Marvin about fixing the broken gate that allowed the hogs into her newly planted garden. On other ocassions, Helen would go right down to the barn and offer spontaneous encouragement while Marvin was milking. Ancestors on the hill, upon overhearing Helen encourage Marvin on progressive farming practices, certainly rested in peace knowing their lineage was secure. One day Marvin didn't come up to the house. Helen found him hunched over behind a cow with udders full of milk. At the funeral someone commented on how straight Marvin had planted his fence posts.

Oil on linen panel 12"X16" Thanks for looking and I welcome comments.
This painting is SOLD

Crab Fight! (Donated to a worthy cause)

This painting has been donated to a worthy organizatioin, The Dare Co. Hospice.

The bottom of a crab is one of the most complicated shapes I have painted to date. Lots and lots of moving parts.

Acrylic on canvas 12"X14"

"One our Hen" (on painting youtube)

This was a painting demonstration we staged this morning. Tyler is visiting. He set up a camera to record me painting this. When we stopped, I had been painting for about an hour. Acrylic on canvas. 20"x20"
this painting is no longer available.