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

Study: Sun and Moon

This motif has been in my head waiting for paint for a while.  Early sketches can be found in my mission journal.  (For those of you wondering why on earth a missionary would have that sort of thing on his mind, I can only point out that I was engaged my entire mission.  I arrived trunky, and got married one transfer after getting home.)

12"x9" acrylic paper

Study: Lonely Moon

The title only makes sense when paired with the next one.

12"x9" acrylic paper

Study: City on a Cliff by the Sea

First one with my new painting knives.  It's always interesting what people see in these.  Dad saw three tires, and figured it was a race.  When I tell people my name for it, quite a few see the yellow as sand.  I see it as the sun on the water.

9"x12" acrylic paper