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Specular Prospect
at Deep Lake
oil on canvas
16” x 20”
1/11/26
A vertical oil painting of a morning scablands image, a specular prospect, a lake seen from the high notch of coulee walls.
January 11, 2026 at 11:44 PM
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#rockfall#smoke

Coulee Rockfall
oil on canvas
16” x 20”
1/10/26
Oil painting of a shrub-steppe landscape showing a large talus slope and smoke on the horizon.
January 10, 2026 at 9:08 PM
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Basalt Arch

oil on canvas
16” x 20”
1/3/26
An oil painting of a basalt arch in the springtime. It has a green grassy floor. There is a gap that you could crawl through.
January 4, 2026 at 2:29 AM
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Basaltic DP. LK.,
East End,
(with Bird Apparition)
oil on canvas
24” x 30”
Nov 22, 2025
A landscape painting with basalt cliffs and a lake. Bird-like marks are in the top right corner of the sky.
November 23, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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paintings of the
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Moses Coulee Rock
and Irrigated Fields
oil on board
14” x 11”
2009
A vertical format oil painting, showing a rock cliff on the left, a green irritated farmers field on the right, and in the background, the basalt cliffs and a sky with clouds in it.
March 20, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

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#oilpainting
#blueskyart#art
#mosescoulee

Columnar
oil on panel
12” x 16”
2002
A landscape painting in oil. It’s a close-up of columnar basalt. It is a series of vertical lines that describe the rock. There is orange and bright, green, and brown, brushstrokes.
March 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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6/100
paintings of the Shrub-steppe
basalt, sagebrush, water, light

#shrub-steppe#coulee#basalt
#oilpainting#art#blueskyart
#Deeplake#Sunlakes#cliff

South Shore Cliffs, Deep Lake
oil on arches
20” x 30”
February 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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67/100
paintings of the Shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrubsteppe#coulee
#basalt#oilpainting#art
#blueskyart#Mosescoulee
#US2

Moses Coulee
oil on board
6” x 9”
2001
February 14, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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8/100
paintings of the Shrub-steppe
basalt, sagebrush, water, light

#shrub-steppe#coulee#basalt
#oilpainting#art#blueskyart

Basalt Columns
acrylic on arches
25 3/4 x 34 1/2”
February 5, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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paintings of the
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#LakeRosevelt
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Grand Coulee Dam
oil on board
12” x 14”
2012
An oil painting of a dam with a bridge in front of the dam. The sky is yellow in the distance. The banks of the river can be seen behind the dam. The Columbia river is flowing towards us to the north We are looking south.
March 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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paintings of the
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#notebook

Attraction comes first.
Best standings spot.

Where, who,
has the shine?
Best facing, best face.
Who? Where?

Attraction comes first.
Best face

Ink on a
Kanso Noto
A5 Notebook
Ink over light pencil in an A5 notebook the scene is of a lake and cliffs and a green bush on the left. There is writing in the sky and in the water.
March 1, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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paintings of the
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Encircle
oil on canvas
28” x 40”
2001
An oil painting of a closeup of a basalt erratic -you can barely get around it. There’s two pieces of sky and a piece of ground on the left, otherwise the whole thing is a close-up of a rock.
April 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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9/100
paintings of the Shrub-steppe
basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrub-steppe#coulee#basalt
#oilpainting#art#blueskyart

Deep Lake, east end
oil on yupo
9 1/2” x 12 1/2”
February 5, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrubsteppe
#oilpainting
#blueskyart#art
#Monumentcoulee

Prodigious Rocks in
Monument Coulee
oil on gesso board
10” x 8”
2013
An oil painting in a vertical format of four very large rock forms in the mid distance. In the foreground there are some bright yellow strokes representing flowers. The skies is made up of four strokes two blue and two yellow.
March 7, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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paintings of the
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#clouds#Manson

Winter Ridge with Cloud
oil on canvas
14” x 18”
1993
An oil painting of a winter scene with a cloud hanging over a ridge that has orchards on it and snow.
March 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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paintings of the
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#LakeRosevelt
#Columbiarver

Lake Roosevelt Slide
oil on canvas
22” x 28”
2000
An oil painting of dramatic cliffs with a strong diagonal cutting across the canvas at 45°. Water can be seen at the bottom. The sky is clear trees can be seen on the slope. Large rock forms can be seen above.
March 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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paintings of the
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#shrubsteppe
#ink#ink#drawing
#blueskyart#art
#sunlakes
#basalt

Umatilla Rock-
ink on Bristol
A brushed ink drawing with black lines on white background of a large rock formation.
March 10, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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#blueskyart

On the edge of believable color that can build form…When I pretend it is a night 🌚scene, it helps me appreciate it more. 🖌️🧐

Three of a group of six:

Plutonic-3
oil on board
8” x 16”
2008
A horizontal format oil painting. There’s a blue stroke in the sky in the middle of the painting. There’s green in the foreground. There’s magenta in the middle of the painting as a wash behind. There’s a viridian stroke near the horizon. On the left and right are dark forms with dark strokes laid on top.
March 30, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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20/100
paintings of the Shrub-steppe
basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrub-steppe#coulee#basalt
#oilpainting#art#blueskyart
#Deeplake

South shore Deep Lake
oil on yupo
9 1/2” x 12 1/2”
February 6, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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4/100
paintings of the Shrub-steppe
basalt, sagebrush, water, light

#shrub-steppe#coulee#basalt
#oilpainting#art#blueskyart
#Sunlakes#DeepLake
#northcentralwa

Road to Deep Lake
watercolor on arches
22” x 30”
February 4, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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91/100
paintings of the Shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrubsteppe#coulee
#basalt#oilpainting#art
#blueskyart

Greasewood Flats
oil on board
11” x 24”
2009
February 18, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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68/100
paintings of the Shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrubsteppe#coulee
#basalt#oilpainting#art
#blueskyart#RockIsland
#Columbiariver

Rock Island Basalt
oil on canvas
22” x 30”
1989
February 14, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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#LakeRosevelt
#Columbiariver

Lake Roosevelt study
oil on basswood
4” x 9”
2002
A small oil painting of large cliffs with a blue sky and water below.
March 12, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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#oilpainting#landscape
#LowerGrandCoulee
#DeepLake#rock
#umatillarock
#Sunlakes#coulee
#spring#Dryfalls

South End of
Umatilla Rock
With Parking Lot
oil on canvas
20” x 32”
May 2025
An oil painting of a landscape showing sagebrush, a road, and a large basalt rock form with talus slopes. Large boulders to the right.
October 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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10/100
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#oilpainting#art#blueskyart

Dry Falls
oil on yupo
10 1/4” x 14”
February 5, 2025 at 5:04 AM