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.

At the end of the rainbow

this rainbow ended right at the foot of our beach trail. must be a good sign!

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

SOLD

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

kids book

 Just to keep you amused while I'm painting... here are a few digital images I did of our old dog Tex for a children's book

Terrible Tilly

O.K.! So I haven't posted any new work for a week. That's because I'm not painting much. I've been snooping around trying to find some good photos of the old lighthouse just offshore. I always wanted to paint it. An old fisherman friend gave me these showing the rock from his boat on a very calm day.  The Oregon shore is in the background on the 1st one. The color is so drab that it doesn't do much for me though.

Golden Brown

This is my goal..to be old and comical but most of all to be free to lay in the sun like an old dog. I might  even take to wearing a watch like this old coot just to be able to see how long I've been cooking.
14x20" acrylic on linen

Ian

here's how I did my youngest son and the dog (dog is on left) a few months back. He was just a little guy when I shot this picture. He's a big hulk now.Great pose I thought!
about 24x24 acrylic on canvas.

'Surfer Max'

tried to do a quick portrait of my oldest son Max....Ended up reworking it til I got crazy. When you know someone that well the slightest imperfection pulls your eye to it. Still looks loose enough for me and pretty damn close to how he looked last year when I took this photo.  acrylic on linen 13x17

lazy days

Acrylic on canvas......$800  SOLD

These beach scenes all miss the long horizontal feeling of being there so I stretched this one out a little.12x 28 acrylic on linen

Wish You Were Here

14x18 acrylic on linen. My wife says these latest beach scenes look like those old postcards that always said  'wish you were here!'