CANDY CORN CROW

 6 x 10 inches, watercolor, 7/6/2024

framed original painting SOLD

 

Crow on shrimp boat, eating candy corn (South Port, NC)

HARMONY

12 3/4 x 10 inches, watercolor, 2024

original painting not for sale

 

This was our beautiful dog Oscar. 

THE FOREST EDGE (Stevens Mill 4)

 

6 x 11.25 inches, watercolor, 2022

framed original painting SOLD

 

In the 1950's, 60's, and 70's Stevens Mill / Warrick's Mill had a picnic shelter and a pavilion with a diving board.  It was open to the public, and was locally popular for 

picnics, parties, fishing, yearbook poses, etc.

PAIR OF MOURNING DOVES

 

4 x 5 inches, watercolor, 2022

framed original painting $155

 

This very tiny painting was developed from a piece of the painting Bird Sanctuary (See below).

BIRD SANCTUARY

 

10 x 17 inches, watercolor, 2022

framed original painting $528

The silo in this painting is based on a real, existing silo in Goldsboro, North Carolina (I made up the barn).  Goldsboro used to be a "bird sanctuary", as posted on the city limits signs of that era.  My father told me that the signs were probably a warning for little boys like me, who had received BB guns from Santa Claus.

The painting was first completed as a lone silo in the middle of a field, which was later re-imagined as you see it here.  The barn and most of the birds were added later.  The laurel blossoms are gouache (opaque paint), but the white parts of the birds and the window were scratched in with a knife to expose the white paper.  You could say they are both carved and painted.

CAROLYN'S CRANES

 

5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches

original painting SOLD

This painting is called "Carolyn's Cranes" after my cousin Carolyn, who thought the Florida sand hill cranes were "so beautiful", and who asked me to put them into a painting for her as a Christmas present to herself.  We shared many memories and revived some great family stories.  She loved to bring family together, and keep memories alive. 

THE APPROACHING STORM

 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, 2020/2021

unframed original painting $190

Sea waves crash on sunlit boulders,

Nacreous curtains flying high.

Out across the shining ocean,

Clouds are gray, a storm is nigh.

Young gulls love the wind and water,

Playing in the surf and sun, but

Mother Gull cries "Fun is over!

Lets fly home, a storm has come".

by Tom Britt

BEACH COMBER (Pas de Deux)

8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, watercolor

original painting SOLD

Twilight shadows, gulls on sand,

Tiny dancing feet,

Evoking dancers hand in hand,

Smiles from folks they meet.

by Tom Britt

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.

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.