The scene is the bight at Cape Lookout wherein previous trips I had noticed that sink netters worked in this area. You're considered a realist painter. I never apologize for what I do because I feel it is one of the hardest kinds of art to do well. In school I could do nice impressionist paintings so easily that I thought they couldn't be worth much if they were that easy. When you get right down to it, realism is the study of nature.
Nothing is more vital or more interesting than nature.
Spritsails and Sanderlings at Rest Watercolor You seldom see sanderlings at rest. They are the busy little sandpipers that dash after receding waves, looking for a choice morsel, and then dash back before the next wave can catch them. However, at times they do rest in groups, still enough for you to study, but wary of your approach. The boat is the classic North Carolina spritsail skiff featured prominently at the North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort. A lot of people think, well, he went out and snapped a picture and painted the photograph.