Crabbing Crab Creek
At Sundown12 total reviews
Comment from Lisa Davey
This is a wonderful piece Ray. It's nice to see something a little less abstract although I do enjoy perusing the colors and shapes looking for your camouflaged people and scenes. However, this piece has the perfect balance of details and abstract imagery. Love it!
reply by the author on 12-Sep-2023
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This is a wonderful piece Ray. It's nice to see something a little less abstract although I do enjoy perusing the colors and shapes looking for your camouflaged people and scenes. However, this piece has the perfect balance of details and abstract imagery. Love it!
Comment Written 12-Sep-2023
reply by the author on 12-Sep-2023
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Lisa, thank you for your fine review and I am so glad you enjoy it. Everyone tells me the same thing so I try to mixed it up and lighten up on the abstract and I do understand what you mean. Ray
Comment from Easton Bay
You've outdone yourself with Crabbing, Ray! This image is bright, engaging, and FUN. I especially like the deep-colored reflections in the water. I'm betting that this image could earn you mega dollars if available here on the Eastern Shore where folks take crabbing and all things related very seriously. They are also art lovers. Bravo!
reply by the author on 12-Sep-2023
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You've outdone yourself with Crabbing, Ray! This image is bright, engaging, and FUN. I especially like the deep-colored reflections in the water. I'm betting that this image could earn you mega dollars if available here on the Eastern Shore where folks take crabbing and all things related very seriously. They are also art lovers. Bravo!
Comment Written 12-Sep-2023
reply by the author on 12-Sep-2023
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Bay, knowing you are from Easton, I wanted to come up with something you could easily connect with and this is it. Spending my summers in Ocean City and having been to Easton and because grew up crabbing, this was my choice. I am so glad you could see this. Thank you so much for your wonderful review and rating. I am gald you enjoy it. Ray
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You are so very welcome, Ray. So great that you are familiar with this area. I moved here from PA three years ago and am still learning my way around. I haven't been able to catch on to the crab, oysters and other so-called delectables folks here enjoy. But I am a pescatarian, think salmon, cod and lots of veggies.
Please let me know if you ever leave your comfy spot in Queens and travel this way!
Bay
Comment from Montana Shooter
Wow! Ray, I think this may be one of my favorite of your works!
Everything about speaks to me: the colors, reflections in the water, and the vertical and horizontal lines. I love the ropes tied to the rail and the anticipation of the crabs that are caught in trap below the water.
Very nice!
reply by the author on 11-Sep-2023
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Wow! Ray, I think this may be one of my favorite of your works!
Everything about speaks to me: the colors, reflections in the water, and the vertical and horizontal lines. I love the ropes tied to the rail and the anticipation of the crabs that are caught in trap below the water.
Very nice!
Comment Written 11-Sep-2023
reply by the author on 11-Sep-2023
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Ruth Ann, nice to see back and thank you so much for your wonderful review and rating. I am so glad you like it. Your comment about horizontal and vertical lines helps me so much. The bottom being horizontal and the top being vertical and the dock ties it all together. Thats what was intended. Thanks again. Ray
Comment from Christine389
Oh I absolutely love this Ray! The limited colour palette of orange and blue is so striking and perfectly used here. So much detail in the wooden structure, set off by the abstract background and then those beautiful reflections in the rippling water - there's so much to enjoy about this scene. Really clever work that I've enjoyed a lot. It may be my new favourite of your work! Worthy of six stars all day long in my book.
reply by the author on 11-Sep-2023
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Oh I absolutely love this Ray! The limited colour palette of orange and blue is so striking and perfectly used here. So much detail in the wooden structure, set off by the abstract background and then those beautiful reflections in the rippling water - there's so much to enjoy about this scene. Really clever work that I've enjoyed a lot. It may be my new favourite of your work! Worthy of six stars all day long in my book.
Comment Written 11-Sep-2023
reply by the author on 11-Sep-2023
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Wow, Christine, I am so glad you enjoy this painting. Thank you so much for your exceptional review and rating. I find it so inspiring, every time I read it, so I printed out a copy and I keep it in my studio for a shot of inspiration. Thank you again. Ray
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I love it!
Comment from Linda Bickston
Oh Ray, This creation of yours is grand is so many ways. Let me start by saying I find your use of outlining pen to be brilliant. It adds a very distinct border for the acrylics. My favorite part is the wharf. There is just something so inviting about it. I love the colors too.
reply by the author on 10-Sep-2023
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Oh Ray, This creation of yours is grand is so many ways. Let me start by saying I find your use of outlining pen to be brilliant. It adds a very distinct border for the acrylics. My favorite part is the wharf. There is just something so inviting about it. I love the colors too.
Comment Written 10-Sep-2023
reply by the author on 10-Sep-2023
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Linda, Thank you for you wonderful comment, review and rating. I am so glad that you enjoy Crabbing Crab Creek. This is one of my latest paintings inspired by my younger days. Ray
Comment from Maureen Woychyshyn
A very interesting and well thought out picture. It makes me want to check out the traps to see if there are crabs inside. Your composition colors and tones are very well done. I especially love how you created your water. Very nice visual!!
reply by the author on 10-Sep-2023
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A very interesting and well thought out picture. It makes me want to check out the traps to see if there are crabs inside. Your composition colors and tones are very well done. I especially love how you created your water. Very nice visual!!
Comment Written 10-Sep-2023
reply by the author on 10-Sep-2023
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Thank you very much for your fine review, it is well appreciated. i am glad you enjoyed it. Ray
Comment from alaskapat
Wonderful initial impact: this is just beautiful, Ray! I love water scenes and fishing or in this case crabbing, the sky here is amazing, it looks like either sunrise or maybe it's sunset. I love the vertical movement in the sky and the horizontal movement on the water, the reflections are so very well shown here. Awesome work to show the dock and the ropes hanging over the railing , I assume they are attached to crab pots. I don't know what type of crab is being caught here, but I love crab, here I am spoiled by our king crab!
This is very well rendered, it's a perfect scene, well presented!
reply by the author on 10-Sep-2023
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Wonderful initial impact: this is just beautiful, Ray! I love water scenes and fishing or in this case crabbing, the sky here is amazing, it looks like either sunrise or maybe it's sunset. I love the vertical movement in the sky and the horizontal movement on the water, the reflections are so very well shown here. Awesome work to show the dock and the ropes hanging over the railing , I assume they are attached to crab pots. I don't know what type of crab is being caught here, but I love crab, here I am spoiled by our king crab!
This is very well rendered, it's a perfect scene, well presented!
Comment Written 10-Sep-2023
reply by the author on 10-Sep-2023
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Pat, thank you so much for your wonderful review and rating. I am so glad you enjoyed it. when I was younger I was taught by a waterman how to catch blue claw crabs. You take a length of rope and attach chicken parts to one end and lower it into the water and check on it every 15 minutes for crabs. You loop the rope around the rail three times. Bring the baited end up just below the water and take a long handled crabbers net under the crab and scoop it up. You put the fresh caught crabs into the trap and put food scraps into the wire food cylinder to fatten them up. After a while, they would shed their shell and get bigger. Then steam them in beer and season them with Old Bay seasoning. Delicious. That is how it was. Ray
Comment from seshadri_sreenivasan
In this semi-abstract art, forms blur and boundaries dissolve, leaving room for the viewers to weave their own narratives, finding beauty in the ambiguity. As ways I find this intriguing. Thanks for sharing!
reply by the author on 10-Sep-2023
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In this semi-abstract art, forms blur and boundaries dissolve, leaving room for the viewers to weave their own narratives, finding beauty in the ambiguity. As ways I find this intriguing. Thanks for sharing!
Comment Written 10-Sep-2023
reply by the author on 10-Sep-2023
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Sesha, thank you for your fine review, glad you enjoy it. Ray
Comment from nikman
A good looking image posted here! Your fine, full and appropriate composition offers us an enjoyable view of the crabbing arrangements not near a jungle? But where are the crabbers?? Nicely painted!
reply by the author on 10-Sep-2023
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A good looking image posted here! Your fine, full and appropriate composition offers us an enjoyable view of the crabbing arrangements not near a jungle? But where are the crabbers?? Nicely painted!
Comment Written 10-Sep-2023
reply by the author on 10-Sep-2023
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Thank you for your review, the crabbers, they are sitting on their lawn chairs on the adjoining beach, sluffing a few. Ray
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Sluffing? No such word in an English dictionary! What does it mean?
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I all ready told you what "sluffing a few" means, Having a pint or two. Write it down. Ray
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Thanks!
Comment from Charlotte Morse
Ray, I just love this! You're so good at drawing, I always like your less abstract paintings because of your wonderful drawing technique - and of course as you know, I understand them so much better than abstracts!
This is such a simple scene, but for anyone who enjoyed crabbing as a kid, it evokes so many fond memories!
I also really like your use of pen and ink to pick out the finer detail.
A great painting, I love it (did I say that already? Lol)
Charlotte
reply by the author on 10-Sep-2023
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Ray, I just love this! You're so good at drawing, I always like your less abstract paintings because of your wonderful drawing technique - and of course as you know, I understand them so much better than abstracts!
This is such a simple scene, but for anyone who enjoyed crabbing as a kid, it evokes so many fond memories!
I also really like your use of pen and ink to pick out the finer detail.
A great painting, I love it (did I say that already? Lol)
Charlotte
Comment Written 10-Sep-2023
reply by the author on 10-Sep-2023
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Charlotte, thank you for your wonderful review and rating, I spent all my summers on the Maryland shore, fishing, crabbing and clamming. Such great memories. It is nice to share a few. Ray
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And you shared this one beautifully Ray! You?re very welcome.
Charlotte