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Scablands Eyeshot
oil on canvas
20” x 16”
1/18/26
Oil painting of lake surrounded by basalt cliffs with a “broken” lake reflection
January 18, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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#promunturium

Promunturium
(Looking S.E
towards Don
Paul Draw)
oil on canvas
16” x 20”
1/17/26
An oil painting of a scablands landscape with a jutting cliff over an emerald colored lake.
January 18, 2026 at 1:47 AM
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#LowerGrandCoulee#rock
#scabland#shrub-steppe
#Deeplake#reflection
#view#water#lake

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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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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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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#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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#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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A field-painting “fail”,
brought home

Studio rework.
Chance to
experience
new rhythms.

Color pushed so far that it gives away its name, divorcing itself from the imagined whole. Stop.

Deep Lit Rock
oil on Yupo
9” x 12”
October2025
An oil painting on Yupo that was taped off with artist tape that since been taken off, revealing a magenta outline drawn by a colored pencil before being taped.The paint is thick and mosaic-like with some spots and strokes, appearing to lift off the two-dimensional plane. I took it into Procreate and drew frames: titanium buff and graphite gray.
November 1, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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220
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#deeplake
#oilpainting#art
#blueskyart
#sunlakes

Why do I like rock?
Suits me cuz my psyche
is made up largely of:

EARTH x EARTH x EARTH

Unwavering Strength,
comma,
painted with…

Power of Stone
oil on canvas
18”x 28”
2010
An oil painting of a rock cliff. The picture has a portrait like feeling. There are distant rock and cliff in the background. There’s an orange note in the sky. The main face of the foreground cliff has chartreuse notes in the vertical rock forms and a peachy red orange color on the talus slope.
March 30, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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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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#oilpainting#landscape
#LowerGrandCoulee
#DeepLake#rock

Tops of White Poplars
Poking Above
Walls of Basalt
oil on board
16” x 20”
Oct 2025
Oil painting of the basalt cliffs and walls with the tops of white popular trees, poking above one of the far walls.
October 25, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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69/100
paintings of the Shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

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

OpeningDay
oil on canvas
16” x 22”
2013
February 14, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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149
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrubsteppe
#oilpainting
#blueskyart#art
#Deeplake

White Poplars at
Deep Lake
acrylic on manila
12” x 14”
Acrylic painting of White Poplar trees next to a lake. Rock cliffs can be seen in the distance. There are clouds in a blue sky.
March 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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65/100
paintings of the Shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

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

Deep Lake,SE
oil on arches
22” x 30”
2018
February 12, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Lith
oil on board
9” x 12”
Oct 2025
Small oil painting of basalt landscape with lake in foreground.
October 25, 2025 at 6:29 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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26/100
paintings of the shrub-steppe
basalt, sagebrush,water, light

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

Deep Lake
oil on canvas
9” x 12”
February 7, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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170
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrubsteppe
#oilpainting
#blueskyart#art
#Deeplake
#cataract

Sheer Vertical Cliff
oil on board
10” x 16”
2020
An oil painting in a horizontal format up a sheer cliff with a lake below.The sky is blue. You can see cliffs in the distance on the far right.
March 14, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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21/100
paintings of the Shrub-steppe
basalt, sagebrush,water, light

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

I took a quick color study on the left and compiled matching paint swatches on the right.
Good practice for learning color.

Squint:
February 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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175
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

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#oilpainting
#blueskyart#art
#water#deeplake

Beginning of the Portals
oil on board
9” x 12”
2018
An oil painting of sloping cliffs down to a lake. There is a triangle shaped rock in the top center of the canvas board. In the background you can see blue and purple cliffs. The lake is bluish with a slight green tinge.
March 15, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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218
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#deeplake
#oilpainting#art
#blueskyart
#sunlakes

Unwavering Strength,
comma,
painted with…

Isthmus Muscle
oil on canvas
18” x 28”
2010
An oil painting with large, strong strokes. The picture is of a a basalt isthmus as it curves around towards the sky in the left-hand corner. You can see green plant forms. You can see purple, red, and dark brown, rock forms. The architectonics of the paint is exceptionally tight, deliberate and confident.
March 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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#DeepLake#rock
#coulee#sunlakes

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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57/100
paintings of the Shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrubsteppe#coulee
#basalt#oilpainting#art
#blueskyart#DeepLake
#Sunlakes

Jumbleyard Rocks (detail)
oil on panel
11” x 14”
2021
February 12, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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202
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrubsteppe
#oilpainting
#blueskyart#art
#Deeplake

Deep Lake
acrylic on manila
12” x 14”
A rough acrylic painting of a lake and cliffs. There is a yellow dot in the sky.
March 24, 2025 at 3:43 AM