Woodie Long was a sharecropper’s son. “Daddy had us for a reason, that was to be field hands,” he said. In 1988, with his trademark loose approach, he began painting. And he didn’t stop. After settling in Santa Rosa Beach, he opened a gallery to sell his paintings. Long estimated that, by the start of the new millennium, he had made nearly 14,000 paintings. The tenor of his work is defined less by subject referent than by his elongated expressive figures. His bright palette added further whimsy to the abstracted portrayals.