ONE OAR

18x24" acrylic on linen

And yet another boat. What can I say...I like 'em. Clients like 'em. Believe it or not it's somewhat of a challenge to make water look right. And the lines of a boat are tricky. Curves extending away from the eye toward the vanishing point.Available at Primary Elements Gallery in Cannon Beach or. www.primaryelementsgallery.com

ATTITUDE

6"x 8" acrylic on gessoboardSOLD

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Some people hate crows but I like 'em. They're smart and comical. I was reluctant to do one because they are black and I don't even use black. In fact I don't even have any. I  mix blues and reds to get the shadows. black is so dead.....not really a color. But there are lots of reflective colors on a crow. Really we are painting light reflecting off of the crow so... there it is. Below is how it looks in a frame.(black of course)

DREAM FOR SALE

6" x 8" acrylic on gessoboard

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My wife and I walked the docks at the marina in Ilwaco Washington on a bright ,blue day. Good light and color. I saw quite few 'for sale' signs like the one in the window of this nice, old fishing boat.  Some of these old working boats had been turned into pleasure craft. Made me want to sail away.

AT THE MARINA

   

8" x 10" acrylic on gessoboard.........$100 SOLD
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I used a photo taken by Jim Furnish that inspired me for this one. I took a little artistic license, as always....Below is how it looks in a frame. I'm thinking of offering my daily paintings framed or unframed...not sure I want to go into the framing business ....it's so much like work....so it's just a thought right now.

SUMMER POND

6" x 6" acrylic on gessoboard...................$100

Our Koi ponds are full of life right now. Lily pads and water lilies along with water Iris and lots of fish.

This is how it looks in a frame.

Kinglet

6"x 6" acrylic on gessoboard...................$100 SOLD

WREN

6"x 6"acrylic on gessoboard....................$100

These little guys have the distinction of being able to stick that long tail straight up. We have lots of them hanging out in the dune grass.

BIRD ON A WIRE

6"x6" acrylic on gessoboard.............$100SOLD

While I was enjoying the summer sun in our yard a couple days ago ...a Goldfinch stopped and sang its little song. Next best thing to having a canary in a cage. Just after I finished this painting I realized there is a technical flaw in the wire. Sort of like an M.C.Escher rendering...it looks right at first glance but on closer inspection you see it is a physical impossibility.

STRAWBERRY DELIGHT

6"x8" acrylic on gessoboard.........$100

Not sure who eats strawberries with a fork.. sorta like eating a candybar with a knife and fork. But hey! it makes for a nice set up anyway.

MECHANIC'S STILL LIFE

6"x6" acrylic on masonite panel..........$100

Not sure they even make these oil cans anymore. I thought it had a certain beauty to it once I wiped off the years of grime.  But then I like to monkey around with tools and fix-it projects. And I like the way light moves through the yellow plastic handel on the old screwdriver.

YOUR CHOICE

$100

6"x6" acrylic on masonite

Here are a couple more apples.

Hen House

                                  6"x6" acrylic on wood panel
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This is the same hen as below in a different pose. I like the warm tones here.
My old Grandmother was a collector of all things chickenish (is that a word?)
She had chicken pictures, chicken plates ,chicken cups, little ceramic chickens, chickens on her apron....in fact... she sorta looked like a hen with glasses...same little beak of a nose...round body ...skinny legs... in a good way though. Sorry Gramma!

Sliced Oranges

Acrylic on linen.30x22. It may appear, after the last couple of sunsets, that I had a lot of blue and orange paint to use up. Not really...I just like the contrasting colors. This is one done just with a knife. Lots of texture.

Good Company (reworked)

I couldn't keep my paws off of this one..It wasn't right...so I reworked it a little. I like it much better now. The first version is below. Maybe you can see what changes I made.

Good Company

Some use shovels..some use a clam gun. Some carry the lantern while some just do the digging. There's nothing like trying to spot a hole the size of a dime by lamp light.
Acrylic on linen 30x14.

seals on the beach

 For some reason there have been quite a few seals and sealions beached lately in front of our house. The bald eagles got  one and the gulls got another just this morning. Reminded me that I did this digital image on the computer for a book a while back. It's titled  Seal Pup.

My son the surfer got sorta pumped when he saw this one. He has quite a collection of these..the tools of his trade.

SINGLE PEAR

I had panned to take this a little more toward realism but I kinda like it just like this.

Dawn Patrol

more clammers. I don't ususally pay much attention to these scenes when I'm digging..too focused on looking for clam holes. But it is beautiful down there just before the sun comes up isn't it?
Acrylic on linen 20x14

After Sunset

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I've been trying to get going on a series of clam diggers. So often photos of diggers are either at night (too dark) or during one of our overcast days when everything is monochromatic (gray). I'm lookin' for color. So even though this borders on a sunset with silhouettes I did it for color.
Acrylic on linen 14x20 SOLD