Passing Storm

Passing Storm
8" x 10" oil on board
Commissioned - sold

This is the second version of this painting that I've done; the first is hanging in my bathroom.  My brother requested the painting, something with water and boats, for a coworker who's moving to the northern neck of Virginia.  I had already emailed a photo of the painting to my brother when I realized that I'd made a mistake. The horizon on the right was much lower than the horizon on the left...not physically possible.  So I scraped it off, got rid of a dock and boathouse and added a new horizon. The painting's called "Passing Storm," and I feel like the revised version does a better job of creating that effect.  Here's the original:

Here's the first one that's hanging in my bathroom:

"Tangier"

8" x 10" Oil on canvas
$150 includes shipping

This is Tangier Island in Accomack County, VA, in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay. The only way on or off of Tangier Island is by boat or plane. Despite its isolation, there are about 600 people who live there full time, mostly commercial crabbers. The residents of Tangier Island speak a dialect of early American English that is said to be unchanged since colonial times. Traveling there is literally like traveling back in time.

The colors here are a little different from my usual - kind of pastel I guess. Not a lot of bright colors aside from the yellow of the closest boat house. Tangier is a grimy, crab-centered, place and this painting reminds me of that. A storm has just passed - everything is wet and the sun is just now poking through. I can smell the menhaden.