Shrimp Boat - 6x6 Oil Painting

6"x6" oil painting on archival canvas panel
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This guy was parked outside a seafood restaurant at Sneads Ferry. It was nice to break away from straight-up landscape paintings for a bit and paint a boat instead, and all those wires were fun to play around with.

Beach Walk - 5x7 Oil Painting

5"x7" oil painting on archival canvas panel
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"Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks."
- Samuel Johnson

Outer Banks Waves - 16x20 Oil Painting

16"x20" oil painting on stretched canvas
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"The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness."
- Percival

The little seascapes I've been painting recently were to help me stay loose on this larger painting. I always find these scenes of the Outer Banks to be relaxing and fun to paint. Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Ocean Study II - 5x7 Oil Painting

5"x7" oil painting on archival canvas panel
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"Hope, that star of life's tremulous ocean." - Paul Moon James

Another ocean study.

Ocean Study I - 6x6 Oil Painting

6"x6" oil painting on archival canvas panel
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"The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness." - Percival

I painted a few of these smaller ocean studies to get loosened up and get ideas for a slightly larger painting. Tomorrow I'll post a similar study.

After the Rain - 6x8 Oil Painting

6"x8" oil painting on archival canvas panel
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"Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?"
- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

Simplicity - 5x7 Oil Painting

5"x7" oil painting on archival canvas panel
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"'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."
- Frank Lloyd Wright

For me, this painting was an exercise in reducing a landscape to its most basic forms; the land, broken by a hint of water winding through the marsh, a cloudless sky, and that solid dark line of trees.

Lifting Fog - 5x7 Oil Painting

5"x7" oil painting on archival canvas panel
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"Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down."
- Charles F. Kettering

Silver - 24x24 Oil Painting

24"x24" oil painting on stretched canvas
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"Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold." - Maurice Setter

This is another painting that's been on the backburner for a while. I've always been drawn to silver motifs in paintings and really loved painting that wide open sky.

Once a Little Nut - 6x6 Oil Painting

6"x6" oil painting on archival canvas panel
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"The mighty oak was once a little nut that stood its ground." - Unknown

Evening Glow - 5x7 Oil Painting

5"x7" oil painting on archival canvas panel
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"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length." - Robert Frost

Endings - 5x7 Oil Painting

5"x7" oil painting on archival canvas panel
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"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." - Pablo Picasso

I have to say, it's been relaxing and enjoyable to paint these little sunset paintings lately. I like to imagine those perfect ends to perfect days. Life can be so hectic; it's nice to escape into tranquil moments through painting.

View of Bear Island Salt Marshes - 18x24 Oil Painting

18"x24" oil painting on stretched canvas
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"When I look at a painting it isn't only the painting that I see but the thing that I am. If there is more in the painting than I am, then I won't see it." - Ivan Eyre

I hope everyone's having a great 4th of July!

Here's a larger painting of one of the views from Bear Island, of the marshes. It's been on and off my easel for the past few weeks, it took me a while to find the time to finish it up.

Sunset Glow - 5x7 Oil Painting

5"x7" oil painting on archival canvas panel
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"I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom." - Simone de Beauvoir

I hope everyone has a safe and happy 4th!

Marsh Greens - 6x8 Oil Painting

6"x8" oil painting on archival canvas panel
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"Then followed that beautiful season... Summer....
Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape
Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sunset Lake II - 6x6 Oil Painting

6"x6" oil painting on archival canvas panel
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"Happiness comes from within a man, from some curious adjustment to life." - Hugh Walpole

I didn't get a chance to post this painting yesterday on my blog, so here it is now. I've painted a few similar scenes to it before; I just really love that warm palette and playing with the tree silhouettes overhanging the lake. I've been running low on these square format 6"x6" canvases for a while so I haven't gotten to paint many lately, but I've just ordered a new batch. The square format has always been a favorite of mine.