Here's some more of my favorite fishing and seascape painting
click on thumbnail to see full size image See my original paintings at The Art Shop Gallery
No one knows why salmon jump like this but it's a great way to find out where they are as the sides flash silver and gold. Where one jumps many more may be found below. The bluffs of Kachemak Bay show orange as the sun sets and the moon rises.
Reds show up colorfully against the rocky stream bed and floating leaves. Often they will lie in pockets behind rocks and log jams as they rest on their way upstream. If you look carefully you can spot small Dolly Varden trout as they shadow the salmon waiting for eggs or eventually fish flesh of the dead and dying.
Long time friend Mike Kennedy is portrayed from many years back in our old cod fishing dory built in Kodiak. His girlfriend at the time, Barb, steers the boat. I have always loved the way boat wakes create patterns of light and color.
This is one from my youth in Virginia. My dad and I used to fish in old broken down duck blinds for bass in the summer. Abundant wildlife can be seen under and above the waterline.
This really was the Celtic's last voyage as the wheel man fell asleep and plowed her directly into sixty foot rock which looms in the distance . She was one of the last great old wooden fishing boats once common around Alaska. Every one was sad around Homer when this happened. The men escaped.
