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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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#oilpainting#landscape
#DeepLake#rock
#DonPaulDraw
#coulee#sunlakes

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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#LowerGrandCoulee
#DeepLake#rock
#umatillarock
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#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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#oilpainting#landscape
#LowerGrandCoulee
#DeepLake#rock
#luckyseven
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#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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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
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

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

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

#oilpainting
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#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
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

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

#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
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#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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#oilpaintincoulee
#deeplake#sunlakes
#soltek2.0

Went painting last Saturday with new easel .
So great to be outside working with actuality and chance.

see alt about new easel👇👀
May 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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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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paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#erratics#sunlakes
#oilpainting#art#landscape
#blueskyart#art#rock

Balky Rock
oil on canvas
22” x 30”
1998
An oil painting of a large erratic close-up. The top of the rock cannot be seen. It is cut off by the edge of the canvas. In the top right hand corner you can see a distant cliff. Up close you can see green grasses.
April 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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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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paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#talus#basalt
#oilpainting#art
#blueskyart
#sunlakes

Sunlakes sketch
oil on board
8” x 10”
2024
Oil painting of a talus slope, half in shade and half in sunlight. A large rock form can be seen on the coulee floor. The sky is blue with a cloud.
April 2, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#umatillarock
#oilpainting#art
#blueskyart
#sunlakes

Battleship Rock study
oil on board
9” x 12”
2019
Oil painting of a large rock form surrounded by sagebrush.
April 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#deeplake
#oilpainting#art
#blueskyart
#sunlakes

End of Deep Lake
oil on board
9” x 12”
2019
An oil painting of a lake and a rock wall . The lake is a greenish color. There’s an orange shoreline to the left. The sky is overcast.
April 2, 2025 at 12:52 PM