Steve Parker

Oaks Bluebonnets , Oil Paint, Weimar Texas, Impressionism, Texas Hill Country.

2022

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...

Framed 26.5" x 37.5 " Spring Cove is an impressionist landscape painting that was painted on Lake Cone located in Montgomery, Texas. Early Spring Cove is a contemporary oil landsc...

An oil painting, painted from a sketch done en plein air, a field half shaded by a large tree on the right side of the canvas. Framed Dimensions: 33 .5 x 41.25 inches Signed by t...

An oil painting by contemporary painter Ben Fenske, a seascape situated in Sag Harbor, NY. Painted en plein air amongst the elements of wind, sun, and sea salt in the air. Fenske use...