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#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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#art#blueskyart#basalt
#oilpainting#landscape
#LowerGrandCoulee#rock
#scabland#shrub-steppe
#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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#art#blueskyart#basalt
#oilpainting#landscape#arch
#LowerGrandCoulee#rock
#scabland#shrub-steppe

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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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, 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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271
paintings/sketches of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#violetgreenswallow
#art#coulee#bird
#pleinair#landscape
#handmadebook
#sketchbook

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

select pages,
More Violet Green Swallows
Ink, gouache,
colored pencil
June 21, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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paintings/sketches of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#violetgreenswallow
#art#coulee#bird
#pleinair#landscape
#handmadebook
#sketchbook

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

select pages,
Violet Green Swallows
Ink, gouache,
colored pencil
June 21, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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paintings/sketches of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#oilpainting#sunlakes
#art#coulee#basalt
#pleinair#landscape
#handmadebook
#sketchbook

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

select pages,
DP.LK.
pen and ink
June 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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paintings/sketches of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#oilpainting#sunlakes
#art#coulee#basalt
#pleinair#landscape
#handmadebook
#sketchbook

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

select pages,
Anastomosis,
splitting and rejoining.
Steamboat Rock
June 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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paintings/sketches of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#oilpainting#sunlakes
#art#coulee#basalt
#pleinair#landscape
#handmadebook
#sketchbook

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

select pages,
Title page:
Pen and ink.
June 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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paintings/sketches of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#oilpainting#sunlakes
#art#coulee#basalt
#pleinair#landscape
#handmadebook
#sketchbook

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

select pages,
Inside front cover:
“Ideas without precedent”
June 21, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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paintings/sketches of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#oilpainting#sunlakes
#art#coulee#basalt
#pleinair#landscape
#handmadebook
#sketchbook

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

select pages,
Cover:
June 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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paintings of the
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#oilpainting#sunlakes
#art#coulee#basalt
#pleinair#landscape

Playing around with
different colored grounds.
This one is on black ground.

Anchoring Rock
oil on canvas
9” x 12”
6/18/25
An oil painting of basalt
June 20, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#oilpainting#breaks
#WatervillePlateau#art
#pleinair#landscape

I did good today.
A win is always
welcome.

On site in AM
Studio finish in PM

Sky, Plateau, Breaks,
Orchard, Cliffs,
River, Butte.
oil on canvas
24“ x 30“
6/18/25
An oil painting, showing a plateau giving way to cliffs that descend down to a river. The foot of a Butte can be seen in the foreground.
June 19, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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#oilpainting#coulee
#sunlakes#art
#pleinair#landscape

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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##gouache
#sunlakes#art
#pleinair#landscape

That hopeful, excited feeling of taking the tape off and getting a clean edge!

untitled coulee study
gouache on board
unknown date
14 1/2” x 18 1/2”
A gouache painting of a coulee with braided channels .
June 4, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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#oilpainting
#sunlakes#art
#pleinair#landscape

new 2025 work:

Top, Face, and Slide
oil on canvas
5/20/2025
12” x 9”
An oil painting from the shrub -steppe showing a talus slide, a rock face and the flat beyond.
June 3, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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paintings of the
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#oilpainting
#sunlakes#art
#pleinair#landscape

new 2025 work:
Note the bright
fluorescent
coral colored
border that
reappeared when
I took the painters
tape off. I like the accent

Plucked
oil on arches
5/20/2025
8” x 11 1/2”
Oil painting of basalt rock forms.
June 3, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#oilpainting#underpainting
#sunlakes#art#deeplake
#pleinair#landscape

new 2025 work:
fluorescent vermilion
underpainting made tuning some of the delicate greens easier.

Backlit View East
oil on canvas
5/19/2025
18” x 18”
An oil painting in a square format with a bright red orange background wash. The subject matter is basalt forms and a lake in the distance.
June 3, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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paintings of the
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#oilpainting
#sunlakes#art
#pleinair#landscape

new 2025 work:

Isthmus, Kolk,
Isthmus, Kolk
oil on canvas
5/20/2025
20” x 16”
An oil painting of a shrub steppe landscape showing basalt pothole depressions, rock was plucked out by forceful ice age floodwaters.
June 2, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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paintings of the
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#oilpainting
#sunlakes#art
#pleinair#landscape

new 2025 work:
same ptg twice,
👀raw version on the left
cleaned up on the right👀

uncooked honesty
OR grafted certainty posing
as improvement?

Duo
oil on canvas
5/ /2025
9” x 12”
Raw version …An oil painting of large rock forms rising out of a coulee , pairing themselves off against the sky. Cleaned up version …An oil painting of large rock forms rising out of a coulee , pairing themselves off against the sky.
June 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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paintings of the
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#oilpainting
#chelanbutte
#pleinair#landscape
#blueskyartoilpainting

From Chelan Butte
oil on board
2011
11” x 14”
An oil painting of a series of hills moving into the distance. A thin strip of clouds and sky can be seen at the top.
May 11, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#oilpainting
#mosescoulee
#pleinair#landscape
#blueskyartoilpainting

McCartney Creek
oil on board
2001
6“ x 9“
A small oil painting of a small rock canyon
May 11, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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#oilpainting
#mosescoulee
#pleinair#landscape
#blueskyartoilpainting

This one is close
to incohering,
esp if you aren’t
family with the motif

Parking Lot,
White Poplars,
Dock and Lake.
2015
oil on yupo
20” x 26”
An oil painting on Yupo paper of white popular trees reflected in a lake with cliffs behind.
May 11, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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#oilpainting#deeplake
#pleinair#landscape
#blueskyartoilpainting
#whitepoplar#leuke

Gleaming Light,
Bright Blanco,
White Tops,
Leuka Poplar,
Reflection in
Deep Lake.

Summer Solstice
unknown year
oil on board
8“ x 12“
An oil painting of a group of white leaved trees reflecting in water.
May 11, 2025 at 10:14 PM