The Long Way Home

If you want to weave your own story about this painting ... enjoy just looking and dreaming.  

The Long Way Home, framed and ready to hang

This Day's Story

This is my painting from the day I chose to go to Oriental during NC Plein Air. I love the view right there at the main harbor. I was late arriving (lots of other art business to weave in during this event) but picked my spot. But while setting up, I was asked to move by a family member of a young man due sometime that day into the port. I guess they didn't want me to be the first to welcome him home.

Turns out the young man was completing his solo trip around the world in a small sailboat that day. He is the only American to finish that trek ... so it was a big deal.  On the left side of my painting is his ship coming into view.

There is something magical about Oriental. It's a place of tales of the sea with fresh ones unfolding all the time.

Ship Shape -- another of my marine scenes, this one created plein air in Key West. Click the image for more about this piece.