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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Moses Coulee Near 2
gouache on panel
16“ x 20“
2002
A landscape painting done in gouache. The foreground is muted sagebrush in shadow. There’s a yellow band of light behind that, and behind that, cliffs. The upright portion of the cliffs are in shadow. Talus slopes are half in light, half in shadow. There is a blue sky.
March 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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paintings of the
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50 miles long.
800’ cliffs.
Abandoned cataract,
Moses Coulee,
is the deepest of 4 major paths of ice age flooding.

Hanging Canyons,
Moses Coulee
oil on board
12” x 16”
1993
Oil painting of very tall cliffs carved out by catastrophic ice age flooding. High voltage ⚡️ power lines and towers can be seen at the bottom right and top left. A reddish brown talus slope at approximately 45 degree is painted as a triangle shape on the left side of the painting. In the foreground are 40’ tall poplars for scale.
March 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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paintings of the
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Moses Coulee-March
oil on board
12“ x 16“
1993
An oil painting of a winter scene of a coulee wall with an undulating S shape and with patches of snow
March 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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McCartney Creek
oil on board
20“ x 16“
2002
A vertical oil painting of a winter scene, looking down a coulee that is in the shade looking towards the coulee beyond which is in the light. The sky is overcast. Patches of snow can be seen.
March 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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paintings of the
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#dryfallscoulee
#perchlake

Rocks in Dry
Falls Coulee
oil on board
9” x 12”
2013
An oil painting of large rock forms near a lake with a tree to the right and cliffs behind. The lake is in the foreground.
March 7, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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#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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Prodigious Rocks in
Monument Coulee
oil on board
12”x 12”
2013
Four large rock forms painted in oil centered in a square canvas. There is a greenish blue sky. The foreground is dotted in light, green and orange. Behind the rocks you can see bright yellow peeking out on both sides.
March 7, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Prodigious Rocks in
Monument Coulee
oil on board
12”x 16”
2013
An oil painting of four large rock forms with a blue sky with angled strokes in the sky and angled strokes on the ground. There’s a dark violet shadow between the left two rocks.
March 7, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Prodigious Rocks in
Monument Coulee
oil on gesso board
12”x 16”
2013
An oil painting of very large rock forms surrounded by sagebrush and smaller rocks. Dramatic clouds are in the background.
March 7, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Moses Coulee
oil on board
8” x 16”
2018
Oil painting of the basalt cliffs. There is a purple triangular shadow on the talus slope. The ground is yellow ochre with some green and light blue. The sky is mostly clear, but there is a cloud on the horizon.
February 28, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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#Sunlakes

Towering Rock
oil on board
14” x 18”
Painting of cliffs. Green in foreground. Grayish sky . Purple diagonal sloping talus. Yellow curving coulee floor, Brownish rock .
February 27, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Mose Coulee Cliffs
oil on board
12” x 16”
2013
Painting of basalt cliffs with talus sloping to the coulee floor. A blue diagonal shadow pushes off and opposes a mostly horizontal sunlit yellow band.
February 27, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Moses Coulee Outcrop
oil on board
16” x 20”
2000
February 22, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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G.W. Flats
oil on board
7 1/2” x 16”
2010
February 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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95/100
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Hanging Canyon
gouache on
Tomoe River paper
A5 8.2”x 5.8”
2024
February 22, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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One of my best.
But hard won.

Forgot key painting supplies. Wind blew the ptg face down into my palette. Good outcome anyway!

Hanging Canyon
oil on canvas
18” x 24”
2012
February 21, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Basalt Study
oil on canvas
24” x 36”
2010
February 21, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Boom ! Full-on color.

I think the only reason this ptg
works is the cobalt blue out of the tube and other strong oppositions.

Near Deep Lake
oil on canvas
14” x 30”
2011
February 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Greasewood Flats
oil on canvas
12” x 36”
2010
February 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM