Steady wind … strong wind …
Fine sand whirling past.
Palm trees bending low …
and ever lower … Break ?
Will the trunk snap ?
Never! I have never seen
it snapping … Pieces break off
but never a broken tree.
Archive for the ‘Watercolor’ Category
Texas Palm Trees
Posted in My Paintings, Natural Phenomena, Texas, Watercolor, tagged Palm Trees on February 3, 2015| Leave a Comment »
But … Can We Live There?
Posted in My Paintings, Natural Phenomena, Watercolor, tagged Galaxies, Other Worlds on December 30, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Strange structures on a far-flung world. Made by creatures? By natural processes? Of the many, many worlds in our galaxy are there some touched by old civilizations?
Aurora Borealis
Posted in My Paintings, My Paintings UTPA MFA, Natural Phenomena, Watercolor, tagged Aurora Borealis, Earth, Northern Lights, View of Earth from Space on December 21, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Were we able to fly out in space and look back on our planet we might see the Aurora Borealis in full glory … this is a sight humankind has only been able to see in the last few decades. Named for the goddess of dawn, Aurora, it is also called the Northern Lights. We live in an exciting era!
Enceladus
Posted in My Paintings, My Paintings UTPA MFA, Natural Phenomena, Watercolor, tagged Saturn, Solar System, Titan, Watercolor on December 20, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Enceladus is one of the moons of Saturn and has black sands and methane fountains. One of the most volcanically active bodies in our solar system, it spews forth methane and has methane lakes. A spectacle which would be awesome to see!
Rosetta Mission – Lander Philae
Posted in Etchings, My Paintings, My Paintings UTPA MFA, Watercolor, tagged Comet Landing, Etchings, Lander Philae, Philae, Rosetta Mission, Watercolors on December 8, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Landing on a comet as it rushes around the Sun at 84,000 miles per hour … a miracle of engineering and precision!
Then to the marvel of the photos taken by the Lander Philae which are relayed to the Rosetta Mission and hence on to us on the Internet … truly miraculous!!
Rings of Saturn
Posted in My Paintings, My Paintings UTPA MFA, Watercolor, tagged Saturn, Watercolor on December 7, 2014| Leave a Comment »
The Rings of Saturn
Our neighbor in space, Saturn, with its orbiting rings of frozen ice and (?).
The known is small … the unknown is vast … many puzzles to keep humankind occupied.
Sentinels
Posted in My Paintings, Watercolor, tagged Extraterrestial Life, Fantasy Art, Ink, Watercolor on May 2, 2014| Leave a Comment »
These sentinels stand on a bleak planet waiting … waiting … over countless light years to welcome the arrival of any life form which is voyaging between the stars.
Family Group
Posted in My Paintings, Watercolor, tagged Extraterrestial Life, Fantasy Art, Watercolor on May 1, 2014| Leave a Comment »
This family group may exist on some planet somewhere in the vast universe. As humans move out into space they will strive to understand the unknown. It is intriguing to try to conceptualize what alien forms of life may look like.