Brian Summers

Brian Summers "Laughing Gull" Seagull Beach Water 12x12 Painting on Canvas

2024

"Seagull" is a 22x28 oil painting on canvas by artist Rob Meyers featuring a serene waterscape featuring softly colored boats resting on calm, misty water. Subtle reflections and a l...

This piece, "Tidal Treasure", is a 12x12 acrylic painting on board by artist Del Bourree Bach featuring a cat boat resting in the low tide of of a coastal tide. A bright blue sky an...

Little Gull is part of newly released small works from V....Vaughan's collection of recent travels in around Sargent TX on the Texas Coast.. V....Vaughan painted each of these on location "en plein air" It has an Impressionistic Style as seen in many of Virginia Vaughan's paintings. Adult gulls are mainly gray or white, with variable head markings. In breeding season the head is either pure white, black, gray, or brown; it becomes streaked or smudgy in winter. The bill is strong and slightly hooked and in some species shows a spot of colour. Bill and leg colours help to distinguish species, as do wing patterns. The herring gull (L. argentatus) is by far the most familiar of the Atlantic gulls. A bird of the Northern Hemisphere, it has a gray mantle, flesh-coloured legs and feet, and black-and-white-spotted wing tips. It was rare at the turn of the century, a casualty of the millinery trade, which used bird feathers as decorations in women’s hats. Legal protection and open garbage dumps helped it stage a spectacular comeback. Today some conservationists worry about these gulls’ depredations on the nests of other shorebirds. Herring gulls are scavengers as well as expert thieves, boldly stealing food from other birds and sometimes snatching sandwiches out of beachgoers’ hands. They also hunt moles and even rabbits, hovering over their holes waiting for the quarry to appear. Often they eat mollusks, whose hard shells they crack by flying over a hard surface and dropping them in flight. V....Vaughan is know for her animal, Texas missions Italy, France and Gulf Coast paintings...

While cliff walking in Cornwall and taking lunch at Dead Mans Cove, this Herring Gull squatted very close to us. Unlike other gulls who have dive bombed me for food, this bird patien...