Study: Lilies

9"x12" Acrylic Paper

Before the Storm

Requested by my mother in law.

24"x20" Canvas

Diamonds

This one started out as an abstract shape idea, and started looking more gemlike as it got more colors.

9"x12" acrylic paper

Docking with station 21

I believe in having impossible dreams.  When I hear about someone who achieves all their dreams and then doesn't know what to do with themselves I can guarantee it will never happen to me.  There is always something else that would be good fun and worthwhile.  So one of my goals is to own my own space station.  This is as close as I'll probably get, but if someday I get the chance, it's a road I know how to follow.  Naturally I have a great many probably possible dreams and goals stretching out to the impossible ones.  Like my next painting.  And reading The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

20"x16" canvas

Coast of Mysteries

I should probably "finish" this one, but I like it the way it is.  I'm not sure what the dark shapes in the center are; I wonder if they are friendly?

The initial wash worked perfectly for the reeds, which are scratched in with a paint knife.  Now the trick is to figure out how to use it at will.

20"x16" canvas

Slough in Morning

My paintings so far have been a bit supersaturated.  This is an attempt to paint with more gray.  A cold, slightly foggy morning in the slough near Bear River in Cache Valley, Utah.

20"x16" canvas

Forest stream

I liked my previous forest stream study well enough to try again on canvas.

20"x16" canvas