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Deep Lake with
White Poplars, Kolk,
Phthalo Parking Lot,
and Lapis Lazuli Cut
oil on canvas
30” x 40”
November 9, 2025
An oil painting of a landscape. The image shows the end of a lake on the left and to the right of that a parking lot. Between those two there are a group of trees. The landscape is of basalt rock formations.
November 10, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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#DeepLake#rock
#DonPaulDraw
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Don Paul Draw
oil on canvas
18” x 24”
November 2025
Oil painting of a landscape with a lake and the beginning of a draw heading up and away from the lake. A green bush is near the center of the painting. The water is calm and reflective except for the upper right corner.
November 4, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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#oilpainting#landscape
#DeepLake#rock
#fallcolor#parkinglot
#coulee#sunlakes

Meadow Creek Color
and Parking Lot
oil on panel
9” x 12”
October 2025
An oil painting of the end of a lake next to a parking lot with a road receding into the distance and a creek receding into the distance with fall color within the tracing path it traces.
November 1, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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#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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#LowerGrandCoulee
#DeepLake#rock
#luckyseven
#Sunlakes#coulee
#Autumn#deepcolor

Lucky Seven at
Vic Meyers Lake,
Early Morning,
Late October.
oil on board
16” x 20”
Oct 2025
An oil painting of a fall landscape scene with deep rich colors of foliage that have turned color, in front of basalt cliffs and a small lake. A number 7 can be seen on the talus slope.
October 26, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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#coulee#blueskyart
#art#pleinair#basalt#rock

October morning,
painting in the
Lower Grand Coulee.
October 20, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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paintings/sketches of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

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#pleinair#landscape
#handmadebook
#sketchbook

Coulee.
Handmade sketchbook
with manila pages.
11” x 17”
2016

select pages.
Coulee study, right hand side,
Gouache and swatches
June 21, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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paintings/sketches of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#art#coulee#blueskyart
#pleinair#landscape
#handmadebook
#sketchbook

Coulee.
Handmade sketchbook
with manila pages.
11” x 17”
2016

select pages.
Coulee study,
Gouache and swatches
June 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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#art#blueskyart#oilpainting
#collage#chance#easel

“The nectar of the unexpected”
Franklin Rosemont
What is Surrealism?

By chance I set the small ptg in front of the large and got a new relationship.

Coulee
meets
landscape painting
meets
collage
meets
chance:

Nectar of the unexpected.
2 oil paintings on an easel, that by chance, when combined, one in front of the other, make an unexpected collage.
May 9, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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#oilpainting#thumbnails

“Paint a big 4’ x 6’
and
a small 4” x 6”
in the same day”
-heard secondhand
from painter
Rackstraw
Downes

Changing sizes
shakes habits loose,
let’s air back in.
Unknowing again.

Couleur Color Chords
(18) oil painting thumbnails
1 1/2” x 2 1/4”
18 small, oil painted, thumbnails using the palette of coulees.
April 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Coulee in Red
red crayon on paper
A landscape drawing done in red on white paper.
April 20, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#oilpainting
#pleinair#art#landscape
#blueskyart

lay-in says enough

A ptg is not built by tickling brushes across the surface manufacturing details, it is big moves

Finished/Unfinished
Coulee Cliffs
oil on canvas
18” x 28”
An oil painting with loose broad strokes. You can see the gesso of the canvas peeking through. The subject is cliffs in a coulee.
April 18, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#oilpainting#tarpistancreek
#pleinair#art#landscape
#blueskyart#art#coulee

Sometimes a painting joins hands early on and creates a sense of wholeness. Time to stop. 🛑

Finished/Unfinished
Near Tarpistan
oil on canvas
22” x 28”
An oil painting showing a road on the left and on the right a rock form with trees in the bottom of a small canyon. You can see a triangle of a river going by and on the other side of the river, a flat and then behind that, undulating cliffs.
April 18, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#oilpainting#mosescoulee
#pleinair#art#landscape
#blueskyart#art#coulee

Finished/Unfinished
Coulee Floor
oil on board
16“ x 32“
An unfinished oil painting of a coulee floor. A very spare painting with only a few strokes.
April 18, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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bricolage tying and breaking

Widows and Orphans
Assembled and
Disassembled
Paper Collage

40/42
A collage with the head and tail of a snake and a highway going through a coulee and a pink stove.
April 18, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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240
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#oilpainting#sunlakes
#pleinair#art#landscape
#blueskyart#art#coulee

Sentinel above
Park Lake
oil on board
18” x 24”
An oil painting of a coulee. Large cliffs dominate the left-hand side. In the foreground we see a lot of green an in the background we can see cliffs as they move downstream in the coulee.
April 10, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#columbiariver#mosescoulee
#oilpainting#art#landscape
#blueskyart#art#rock#rain

Painting with artist friends. We had to cut it short because the rain just wouldn’t stop

Moses Coulee meets Columbia River
oil on board
18”x 18”
1994
Oil painting of a very tall coulee as it terminates at the Columbia River. Fog in the background and a train trestle in the foreground. There is both melted snow and bare ground. The image has a lot of white and a few earth tones.
April 10, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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#art#blueskyart#oilpainting
#landscapepainting#houses
#Navarrecoulee#river#apple
#development#columbia

Houses, River, Coulee,
with Snow and Red Bins
oil on canvas
20” x 24”
2001
An oil painting of a river. On one riverbank is a large group of densely packed houses. On the other side, the beginning of a coulee with snow. You can see red bins on one of the benches.
April 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#talus#basalt
#oilpainting#art
#blueskyart
#sunlakes

Sunlakes sketch
oil on board
8” x 10”
2024
Oil painting of a talus slope, half in shade and half in sunlight. A large rock form can be seen on the coulee floor. The sky is blue with a cloud.
April 2, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrubsteppe
#oilpainting#basalt
#blueskyart#art
#Mosescoulee

Three Devils
oil on board
16” x 20”
A very spare , geometric oil painting of a coulee road seen from a height. In the distance a green field can be seen down coulee. The secondary colors, orange green and violet are all represented in high key. Can you find them?
March 22, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrubsteppe
#oilpainting#basalt
#blueskyart#art
#mosescoulee

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

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

Vic Meyers Lake
oil on board
6” x 14”
2013
A panoramic format oil painting of a lake. The cloud band above has orange light blue and violet colors in the distance. Large cliffs can be seen on the left and the right. The corner of a road can be seen in the bottom right.
March 20, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

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

Alkaline
oil on board
16” x 20”
1998
An oil painting, showing basalt and a small, bright green, lake ringed with small boulders. Near the top of the painting, you can see the basalt columns, breaking into a rubble slope.
March 19, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

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

Large/quick,
considered,
brushwork,
with heightened color,
simplified shapes &
unfastened, smeared
reductions
in paint

Igneous Impasto
oil on board
16” x 20”
2010
An oil painting with exaggerated, loose strokes, bright colors, and simple shapes. You can see the painting ground, which is white, in the top left corner. Some of the strokes are very wet when laid down, with very little reworking.
March 19, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrubsteppe
#oilpainting
#blueskyart#art
#Grandcouleedam
#LakeRosevelt
#Columbiarver

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