NATURAL HISTORY

20 x 6 3/4 inches, watercolor, 2018

framed original painting $589

This composition is based on the "Terror of the South" exhibit in the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science.  For more about the exhibit, go to  https://naturalsciences.org/exhibits/tours/extinct-tour.  The dinosaur skeleton is an Acrocanthosaurus.

KING OF KURE BEACH

14 x 20 inches, watercolor, 2018

original painting - SOLD

In 2018, this brown pelican was a regular attraction at the Kure Beach Fishing Pier.  He liked to sit on the small shelter at the end of the pier, waiting for fishy handouts.  

GRANDDADDY'S TRACTOR

11 x 15 inches, watercolor, 2018

original painting - SOLD

My grandfather, Cleon Blackmon, bought this Case tractor brand new in 1951, the year I was born.   As a child, I rode on the fender with him for hours at a time, while he worked the fields.

BFF (Bovine Friends Forever)

19 x 26 3/8 inches, watercolor, 2018

original painting SOLD

It was a hot summer day, and the bovine friends were resting in the cool shadow of the big oak.

WARREN FARM IN WINTER

6 7/8 x 16 1/2 inches, watercolor, 2018

original painting bartered

The Britt Family Reunion is occasionally held at this wonderful old farm.  Thank you, Dale.  

HOUSE WITH DOVES

7 5/8 x 7 5/8 inches, watercolor, 2018

original painting - SOLD

This composition is based on a pencil sketch that I made during a dove hunt in 1989, but we saw fewer doves on the hunt than are depicted above.  

BEYOND THE DUNES

8 1/4 x 12 3/4 inches, watercolor, 2018

original painting - SOLD

This is at Federal Point, south of Fort Fisher, North Carolina.  

FELIX WITH CANDY CANE

5 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches, watercolor, 2017

original painting not for sale

This was our 2017 Christmas card.  Felix is a French Brittany Spaniel / German Short Hair Pointer mix.  

BRITT FARM

11 x 16 inches, watercolor, 1989

original - not available

This is my childhood home near Mount Olive, NC, as it looked in 1977.  It was my earliest serious attempt at a transparent watercolor.