Gull Talk, the Last Word

Arcylic on canvas, 20" x 40"

The gull in the center forground inspired the title. 

 Neighbors

Watercolor on Paper, 21" x 27.5" 

 It took a long time to start this painting.  Every time I looked in my photo file I would find the original photograph and was intimidated by the relationship between the tree and the barn.  I finally painted it at least twenty years after photographing it.


Cool Afternoon on Bodie Island

I painted this unlikely view of the Bodie Island lighthouse so as not to copy a picture normally found in books or the Web.  I was standing in the brush and grass when I captured the image.