Charleston, South Carolina

All paintings shown here are oil on canvas and 30x24in or 24 x20in.

Finally some paintings! I was in Charleston SC last weekend and had a chance to make some paintings on Folly Beach and at a party. The bones and seashells are from the party where I made a still life painting of local bones on display at the hosts house.

The highlight of the weekend had to be a Jon boat ride with it's Evinrude motor that kept us busy for most of the morning. A boat ride that started at 6am and ended 50 ft from the dock at 2:30pm. This boat ride had a lot of excitement and touched on every aspect of navigating in a marine environment. All of of this under the careful watch of Captain Ryan. Can't wait to do it again, Cheers mate!

Pensacola Florida

The trip to Pensacola Fl. was perfect. The beach was great except for the jelly fish that got me. Beware of the sun here it will put the zap on you between high noon and 4:00 pm. Lots of great drift wood washes up on shore here and the Gulf of Mexico has a definite primitive and extreme feel to the water and shore with heavy rip tides and marine life of all types some the biting and stinging variety. A perfect place for an artist who wants to touch on the basis of life. I can see where Julian Schnabel got lots of ideas from having grown up in Brownsville TX living on the Gulf. Very Primordial.
By way of events beyond my control I am in Va. now but am still planning to head back to Charleston SC this weekend. It will probably work out for the best since I can pick up some paints and canvas. This blog is starting to be a travel log and there should be some paintings coming from all this travel soon. Well just have to wait and see what direction this all takes me.