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“Bernie…..have you lost your DAMN mind?” That’s what folk artist Charlie Frye said when I asked him to paint 30 paintings for the Lost Sea Expedition the series about my 14 month wagon mule voyage across America.
![Charlie with some of the 30-plus paintings he created for the Lost Sea Expedition series on Rocky Mountain PBS, Amazon and Vimeo.](https://lostseaexpedition.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/IMG_5148-1-300x222.jpg)
But I know Charlie’s about more than roosters, rusty trucks and bootleggers. Then Charlie started painting. Here’s more on how Charlie went from painting owls to dead fish.