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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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Cataract Height
with Telephone Poles

oil on canvas
36” x 35”
12/8/25
2025
Oil painting of a landscape. The image is of a very high dry fall cataract. Two telephone poles can be seen near the bottom.
December 9, 2025 at 12:55 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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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
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

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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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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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Using bamboo with a brush stuck in the end has been my MO for a few years now.

…forces me to see the
BIG shapes and stay loose; makes it more difficult to get fussy.

(Adaptation came quickly)

Top: Jan Cook Mack ptg of me painting.

Bottom: my ptg. In Moses Coulee.
February 1, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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paintings of the
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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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20/100
paintings of the Shrub-steppe
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#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
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#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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#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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Dry Falls
oil on yupo
10 1/4” x 14”
February 5, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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60/100
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Parking Lot and Basalt Forms
oil on arches
22” x 30”
February 12, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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7/100
paintings of the Shrub-steppe
basalt, sagebrush,

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#oilpainting#art#blueskyart
February 5, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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84/100
paintings of the Shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

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

Dp. Lk.
oil on yupo
9 1/2” x 12 1/2”
2018
February 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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#oilpainting#landscape
#DeepLake#rock
#kolk#parkinglot
#coulee#sunlakes

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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paintings of the
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untitled coulee study
oil on yupo
5/ /25
10 3/4” x 8”
A small oil painting study of a coulee
June 8, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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paintings of the
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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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88/100
paintings of the Shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

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#blueskyart

Greasewood Flats
oil on canvas
12” x 36”
2010
February 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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87/100
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Lake Lenore-Clipped Cliffs
oil on canvas
121/4” 39 1/2”
1999
Winter scene of lake ringed with basalt cliffs. The lake is a greenish color. The basalt is a reddish brown color with some yellow ochre. You can see the ring of the lake, looks like white mineral deposits. There are low hanging clouds that obscure the higher coulee cliffs above.
February 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM