BOATS AKIMBO

48x62"acrylic on canvas

This is not a good photo of this piece.Too dark! But until I can light it better, you can at least see what I've been working on. As you can see by the dimensions above, this is a larger scale one. And it can't be appreciated in such a small reproduction. It is much more the sort of painting I like to do and different than the little dailies. I can't get the bolder, more abstract quality in my small pieces and also I don't feel the tiny format of  a 6x6inch painting lends itself well to things like this.  I think the small ones fill my need to do something more toward realism. I'll take a better shot of this and put it on my website later.
Available at Riversea Gallery in Astoria Or. www.riverseagallery.com

Checking The Pots

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

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I see crab boats day and night from our house in all kinds of foul winter weather. This one was checking the pots early one rare, sunny morning about a month ago. I was on the beach trying to get a nice shot of it just beyond the surf. Of course my batteries were dead when I tried to shoot. I was about to lose my  shot because they were heading back out, so I rubbed my batteries in my hands for a minute to warm them up and tried again. Bingo! It worked!

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.

Two Drifters

$1600

Can't resist a nice looking row boat. This is oil on linen....30x21. I paint in acrylics mostly . After doing this in oil I remember why ..Oil paint has a way of getting everywhere. My hands, my face, my hair,  my stool, seat of my pants, bottom of my shoes, tracked into the house! and takes forever to dry. This is supposed to go to a gallery on Saturday but I don't think it will be dry in time.