Tybee - watercolor

watercolor, 2018

available, 11"x15"

prints also available

      This somewhat loose landscape of the lighthouse on Tybee Island in Georgia is based on a photo I took back in March. I changed the color of the small structure at the base of the lighthouse (I think it's the entrance). It's really the same dark gray/black that's on the lighthouse itself. But, I thought it looked better matching the other buildings. It's red roof helps draw the eye into the lighthouse as the focal point.

Portland Bill - watercolor

watercolor, 2017

available, 11"x15"

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      Just a quick landscape of the Portland Bill Lighthouse and a couple resting boats. I tried phthalo blue for the sky. In mass tone I hate the phthalo colors. But, when applied fairly thin, phthalo blue makes a nice sky. I'm also happy with how the ocean and surf worked -- and how easy it was. I usually struggle with believable surf.

Carricknahowley - watercolor

watercolor, 2017

available, 9"x12"

prints also available

      I'm very happy with this one. It's just loose enough; it's Ireland; the sky isn't completely terrible. I actually found the location through a YouTube clip from a BBC show called Awash With Colour wherein Dermot Cavanagh teaches a celebrity to paint a particular scene in Ireland. In one episode Cavanagh and the celebrity of the week (I don't remember who it was now.) painted this location from a different perspective. I found the location and several photos of it through Google Maps.

Beach Baby - watercolor

watercolor, 2017

nfs, 11"x15"

      My first great-niece. I shot a few photos of her on a chance meeting between my wife and I and my nephew and his young family at a popular NC beach. Neither of us knew the other was there until they posted something to Instagram. A couple weeks later, they've got a portrait of their little beach baby. Honestly, this might be one of my best.

Bodie Island Light - watercolor

watercolor, 2017

available, 11"x15"

prints and gifts also available

      From my most recent trip to the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

Cape Spear - watercolor

watercolor, 2016

available, 11"x15"

prints also available

     Virtual Paintout is in Newfoundland this month. I couldn't pass up this view.

Sullivan's Island - watercolor

watercolor, 2016

available, 11"x15"

prints and gifts also available

      I took a lot of reference photos during our September 2015 trip to Charleston, SC. When I took this one I knew it was kind of cliche. A photo of any kind of sailboat on the beach is on every real estate and tourism brochure for every coastal community in the world. But this one works, I think, since I framed the lighthouse in the rigging and I'm very happy with the looseness.

Formentor Lighthouse - watercolor

watercolor, 2016

available, 8"x10"

prints also available

      Virtual Paintout is in Mallorca this month. Not much to say about this one. I kept it quick and fairly loose.

Beach Combers, Nags Head - watercolor

watercolor, 2015

11"x15" $150

prints also available

      This is from a photo I took while at the Outer Banks back in March.

The Chappie At Wanchese - gouache

gouache, 2015

11"x15" $125

prints also available

      The Chappie has been out of the water four years. After her owner and captain died his daughters spent a large sum having her set here just a few feet from the Wanchese commercial fishing marina, facing the sea, just behind the viewer's standpoint.

Currituck - watercolor

watercolor, 2015

original available, 11"x15" $125

prints also available

      This is from a photo I took a couple weeks ago during our trip back to the Outer Banks of North Carolina for the first time in 24 years. We only had one day of good weather, the day I got this shot. So, I'll have to make the most of gray, cloudy reference photos. Overall, I'm happy with the looseness of this piece, though there are a couple things I could've done differently.

Oak Island - watercolor

watercolor, 2013

original available, 9"x14" $150

prints also available

Beach House - watercolor

watercolor, 2014

original available, 9"x12" $100

prints also available

Coumenoole - watercolor

watercolor, 2014

original available, approx. 8"x10" $125

prints also available

     Virtual Paintout is in County Kerry, Ireland this month -- just as I've begun studying James Fletcher-Watson's landscapes. Is that synchronicity - or something? Normally, I struggle to find one image that really speaks to me in VP's locations. This month I found so many I had to stop myself. I've had to whittle down from 12, and I'll probably do more than these two. Anyway, this (above) is the beach at Coumenoole on the Dingle Peninsula. 
     The one below is the Rattoo Round Tower. I found several good views of this gem and probably will do one or two more.

watercolor & ink, 2014

original available, 6"x9" $50

Nobska Light - watercolor

watercolor, 2014

original available - 9"x12" $100

Done for Virtual Paintout - http://virtualpaintout.blogspot.com