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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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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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paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrubsteppe
#ink#ink#drawing
#blueskyart#art
#sunlakes
#basalt

Umatilla Rock-
ink on Bristol
A brushed ink drawing with black lines on white background of a large rock formation.
March 10, 2025 at 1:47 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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#oilpainting#landscape
#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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60/100
paintings of the Shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

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

Parking Lot and Basalt Forms
oil on arches
22” x 30”
February 12, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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38/100
paintings of the shrub-steppe
basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrub-steppe#basalt
#oilpainting#art
#rotundrum#golfcourse

Rotundum, Sunlakes Course
oil on canvas
23 3/4” x 19”
1999
February 8, 2025 at 2:12 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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262
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#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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19/100
paintings of the shrub-steppe
basalt, sagebrush,water, light

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

The light diagonal in the center is the trail. Moving from the right to the left it reaches a higher elevation

Deep Lake-south shore
oil on yupo
10 1/2” x 13 1/4”
February 6, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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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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176
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrubsteppe
#oilpainting
#blueskyart#art
#golfcourse#sunlakes

Sun Lakes Scene
oil on board
9” x 12”
2018
An oil painting of a distant wall of cliffs in the mid ground a green golf course with a tall popular tree, and some other trees in the foreground and a mound with rocks and foliage . There sky is blue. A road can be seen in the bottom left.
March 15, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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235
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#perchlake#basalt
#oilpainting#art#landscape
#blueskyart#sunlakes

Perch Lake
oil on canvas
20“ x 29“
1998
An oil painting of a lake, surrounded in sagebrush and grasses. In the distance. cliffs can be seen, mostly in shadow. A talus slope comes to the meet the sagebrush.
April 3, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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269
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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126
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrubsteppe
#basalt#oilpainting
#blueskyart#art
#Sunlakes

Mountain Shadow
oil on board
16” x 20”
1994
A vertical painting done in oil of the face of a mountain with a long diagonal shadow. The sky can be seen at the top and a small piece of green orchard can be seen at the bottom right. Trees can be seen at the top left of the mountain. There is a purple triangle shape, top right, depicting a mountain behind.
March 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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58/100
paintings of the Shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

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

Jumbleyard Rocks,
Looking East

oil on yupo
23 1/2” x 35”
2018
February 12, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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261
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

##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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113
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrubsteppe
#basalt#oilpainting
#blueskyart#art
#Sunlakes

Looking Uplake, Deep Lake
oil on canvas
22” x 30”
2020
February 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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#oilpainting#landscape
#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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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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100/100!
paintings of the Shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrubsteppe#Umatillarock
#basalt#oilpainting
#blueskyart#art#Sunlakes

100th post of shrub-steppe! Wasn’t sure I had 100 to post. Actually there is more. Watch this space…

Umatilla Rock, North End
oil on canvas
18” x 24”
2013
February 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrubsteppe
#basalt#oilpainting
#blueskyart#art
#Sunlakes

Rocks at Perch Lake
oil on board
9” x 12”
Oil painting with thick paint in places. 2 dominant rock forms in mid ground, cliffs behind and lake in foreground.
February 27, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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61/100
paintings of the Shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

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

Park Lake
oil on arches
22” x 30”
2018
February 12, 2025 at 2:41 AM