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Eerie gothic landscape surreal painting

Saturday, June 7, 2008 at 4:37 AM

"Eerie" 11 x 14 159 dollars; surreal landscape watercolor abstract painting. Purple gothic tree painted over a sky with blended numerous rustic color washes. I outlined the tree with frisket before starting the painting.

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Blue Ridge Mountains original art landscape painting

Tuesday, June 3, 2008 at 3:15 PM

"Blue Ridge Mountains" 9 x 12 original watercolor landscape painting 99 dollars

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Melbourne Florida Boat Marina limited edition print

Friday, May 30, 2008 at 3:38 AM

Melbourne Florida Boat Marina art limited edition print modern realistic watercolor painting. Nautical marine seascape harbor banana river near Indian Harbor beach and Melbourne beach FL. 35 dollars with free shipping.

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Boat Marina

Wednesday, May 28, 2008 at 3:05 AM

Anchorage Yacht Basin Boat Marina in Indian Harbor Beach Florida near Melbourne on Eau Gallie Highway Causeway on the Banana River. 11 x 15 inches original seascape nautical boats marine modern realistic painting art illustration. 159 dollars

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Boat Painting

Friday, May 23, 2008 at 11:06 PM

Boat Painting Tybee Island Georgia shrimp boat nautical marine seascape beach watercolor painting cityscape boats, 199 dollars

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Route 66 cityscape painting

Thursday, May 22, 2008 at 10:55 PM

Route 66 old highway southwestern culture west original cityscape folk watercolor paintings. Old gas station and gas pumps historical western painting. 159 dollars

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2 seagulls

at 1:51 AM

6 x 17 inch watercolor original sea gulls bird watercolor wildlife reslistic modern painting. $99

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Orange monarch butterfly painting

Wednesday, May 21, 2008 at 8:03 AM

Orange Monarch butterfly miniature small original watercolor painting. The monarch butterfly Danaus plexippus is sometimes called the milkweed butterfly because its larvae eat milkweed. Nymphalidae family modern abstract art deco watercolor painting $79

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Blue monarch butterfly 2

Sunday, May 18, 2008 at 1:12 AM

Blue monarch butterfly 2 5 x 5 inch miniature small watercolor wildlife painting. The monarch butterfly Danaus plexippus is sometimes called the milkweed butterfly because its larvae eat milkweed. Nymphalidae family modern abstract art deco watercolor painting $79.

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Dogwood Tree Flowers

Thursday, May 15, 2008 at 2:59 AM

Many species in subgenus Swida are stoloniferous shrubs, growing along waterways. Several of these are used in naturalizing landscape plantings, especially the species with bright red or bright yellow stems. Most of the species in subgenus Benthamidia are small trees used as ornamental plants. As flowering trees, they are of rare elegance and beauty, comparable to Carolina silverbell, Canadian serviceberry, and the Eastern Redbud for their ornamental qualities.

The fruit of several species in the subgenera Cornus and Benthamidia is edible, though without much flavour. The berries of those in subgenus Swida are mildly toxic to people, though readily eaten by birds. Dogwoods are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Emperor Moth, The Engrailed, Small Angle Shades and the following case-bearers of the genus Coleophora: C. ahenella, C. salicivorella (recorded on Cornus canadensis), C. albiantennaella, C. cornella and C. cornivorella (The latter three feed exclusively on Cornus). They were used by pioneers to brush their teeth. The pioneers would peel off the bark, bite the twig and then scrub their teeth.

Dogwood tree flowers still life modern realistic original watercolor painting. $199

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Magnolia Tree Flower Painting

Wednesday, May 14, 2008 at 1:21 AM

Magnolia Tree Flower Painting white floral still life 3 original watercolor painting modern and realistic, southern United States tree. Beautiful white flowers bloom on this tree in the south. I will always remember this tree as my grndmother's favorite in Douglas Georgia. Those were the days I will never forget.

In 1703 Charles Plumier described a flowering tree from the island of Martinique in his Genera. He gave the species, known locally as 'Talauma', the genus name Magnolia, after Pierre Magnol. The English botanist William Sherard, who studied botany in Paris under Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, a pupil of Magnol, was most probably the first after Plumier to adopt the genus name Magnolia. He was at least responsible for the taxonomic part of Johann Jacob Dillenius's Hortus Elthamensis and of Mark Catesby's famous Natural history of Carolina. These were the first works after Plumier's Genera that used the name Magnolia, this time for some species of flowering trees from temperate North America.

Original one of a kind artwork available to buy for $159

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Oil Sunflower modern painting

Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 10:05 PM

Oil on canvas sunflower original painting modern flower still life oil painting yellow and blue colors, I painted this with a pallet knife, large 16 x 20 inches one of a kind work 99 dollars

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Wildflowers flower modern art painting on yupo paper

Monday, May 5, 2008 at 6:10 AM

Wildflowers flower modern art painting on yupo paper, 9 x 12 inches, wet on wet technique on a new paper called yupo.

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Sapelo Island Lighthouse Georgia Watercolor on yupo

Saturday, May 3, 2008 at 9:27 PM

Sapelo Island Lighthouse, Georgia original modern surreal nautical marine watercolor painting on yupo paper. 99 dollars.

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Butterflies on yupo paper

at 6:50 AM

Latest watercolor butterfly painting on yupo completed today. Wildlife original art of butterflies 99 dollars.

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Monarch Butterfly Watercolor painting on yupo

Friday, May 2, 2008 at 6:46 AM

Monarch Butterfly Watercolor painting on yupo paper, modern art deco wildlife colorful butterflies are a new subject I am working on. Fine art prints. 35 dollars
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Butterfly Paintings

Pelican 3

Monday, April 14, 2008 at 8:54 AM

Newest pelican painting, the same one I painted yesterday but in a landscape profile.
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Latest painting - pelican 2

Sunday, April 13, 2008 at 3:57 PM

Back to my painting a day - today I completed this pelican. I am going to start giving my son lessons on painting.
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umbrella tree with berries

Wednesday, February 6, 2008 at 7:56 PM

Tree with berries by derekmccrea

For sale: $75.00 as a limited edition printBuy it now at Artbreak!

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For sale as an original 15 x 20 inches tropical painting

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Derek McCrea Art Newsletter February 2008

Sunday, January 27, 2008 at 1:32 PM

Derek McCrea February 2008 Artist Newsletter

This month has been a very busy month for me.

In summary I have been very busy painting and having images placed onto mural tiles.

I have completed a recent series of whimisical watercolors including peaches, sea turtles, and 2 Bird of Paradise flower paintings.

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Peaches 2008, by Derek McCrea

This painting is my first fruit still life since 2001. I was inspired to paint this from an image a friend of my wifes sent to me.

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Bird of Paradise, 2008 Derek McCrea

This painting is from my front yard is Satellite Beach Florida and is comprised of about 10 different colors of washes from light to dark.

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Bird of Paradise 2, 2008 Derek McCrea

Second in the Bird of Paradise series, soon to paint some more I hope when I get the time. This is by far my favorite flower. The leaves on this floral are amazing in color.

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3 Sea Turtles, 2008 Derek McCrea

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I live just blocks from the beach in Brevard County, Florida and the Sea Turtles
are a very special animal in central Florida. Every year they come near shore to
lay eggs on the beach. The close in waves are scattered with sea turtle life
throughout the day as the turtles await for night time to come ashore to lay
their eggs. several months later little turtles crawl their way to life at sea.
It is said that these same baby turtles will return to this same beach to lay
their eggs when they mature.

Other news is Shazam Mohammed, of S & K Distributors, an art dealer for Florida and north from North Carolina down to Louisiana, is representing me in upcoming art shows with 10 of my works.

Bobby from Zaracus Studio in England finished the audio and video for the gallery
representation there.

Dave Bosley, managing director of Artwork on Tile is working placement of over 10 of
my images on Tile Murals for bathrooms and kitchen backsplashes.

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