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wildernessed.bsky.social
Douglas Creek Slab Falls, Palisades Area, WA
#waterfalls #canyon #mosescoulee
February 28, 2026 at 7:16 PM
wildernessed.bsky.social
Douglas Creek Canyon, Palisades/Moses Coulee Area, WA
#mosescoulee #slotcanyon #iceagefloods #lakemissoula #geology #nature #art #awe #pnw
February 11, 2026 at 12:31 PM
ronjons.bsky.social
251
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#oilpainting
#mosescoulee
#pleinair#landscape
#blueskyartoilpainting

McCartney Creek
oil on board
9”x6”
Oil painting of small creek gorge.
April 30, 2025 at 5:54 PM
ronjons.bsky.social
254
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
rogersdigitalptgs.bsky.social
"Moses Coulee," #digitalpleinair, done on the same trip as my last post.

#scenery #painting #landscape #pleinair #pleinairpainting
#landscapepainting #pnwart #pnw #digitallandscape #pacificnorthwest #washington #washingtonstate #mosescoulee #procreate #digitalsketch #digitalpainting
September 14, 2026 at 2:57 PM
ronjons.bsky.social
43/100
paintings of the shrub-steppe
basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrub-steppe#basalt
#oilpainting#art#coulee
#MosesCoulee

G.W. Flats
12” x 16”
oil on panel
2018
February 9, 2025 at 7:06 PM
ronjons.bsky.social
102
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrubsteppe
#basalt#oilpainting
#blueskyart#art
#Mosescoulee

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
ronjons.bsky.social
193
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrubsteppe
#oilpainting#basalt
#blueskyart#art
#mosescoulee

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
ronjons.bsky.social
154
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrubsteppe
#oilpainting
#blueskyart#art
#mosescoulee

Columnar
oil on panel
12” x 16”
2002
A landscape painting in oil. It’s a close-up of columnar basalt. It is a series of vertical lines that describe the rock. There is orange and bright, green, and brown, brushstrokes.
March 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
ronjons.bsky.social
241
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#oilpainting#mosescoulee
#pleinair#art#landscape
#blueskyart#art#coulee

Finished/Unfinished
Coulee Floor
oil on board
16“ x 32“
An unfinished oil painting of a coulee floor. A very spare painting with only a few strokes.
April 18, 2025 at 4:16 AM
ronjons.bsky.social
196
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrubsteppe
#oilpainting#basalt
#blueskyart#art
#Mosescoulee

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
ronjons.bsky.social
145
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrubsteppe
#oilpainting
#blueskyart#art
#mosescoulee

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
ronjons.bsky.social
253
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#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
ronjons.bsky.social
67/100
paintings of the Shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrubsteppe#coulee
#basalt#oilpainting#art
#blueskyart#Mosescoulee
#US2

Moses Coulee
oil on board
6” x 9”
2001
February 14, 2025 at 2:19 AM
ronjons.bsky.social
53/100
paintings of the Shrub-steppe
basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrub-steppe#coulee#basalt
#gouache#art#blueskyart
#Mosescoulee

Moses Coulee, February
gouache on panel
20” x 26”
2002
February 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
ronjons.bsky.social
54/100
paintings of the Shrub-steppe
basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrub-steppe#coulee#basalt
#gouache#art#blueskyart
#Mosescoulee

I have made pictures all my life but in 2002 the tide went out and I just stopped. Still not sure why. Last ptg:

Sulphur Springs
gouache on panel
20” x 26”
2002
February 11, 2025 at 5:36 PM
ronjons.bsky.social
55/100
paintings of the Shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrubsteppe#coulee
#basalt#oilpainting#art
#blueskyart
#Mosescoulee

6 years later the impulse to paint came back. A new looser download had occurred, a new lyric wind.

Basalt, Greasewood Flats
oil on panel
6” x 9”
2008
February 11, 2025 at 5:36 PM
ronjons.bsky.social
2/100
paintings of the Shrub-steppe
basalt, sagebrush, water, light

#shrub-steppe#coulee#basalt
#oilpainting#art#blueskyart
#BanksLake#MosesCoulee
#northcentralwa

Moses Coulee horizontal
oil on basswood
4” x 13”

Steamboat Rock horizontal
oil on basswood
4” x 13”
February 4, 2025 at 3:22 AM
ronjons.bsky.social
144
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrubsteppe
#oilpainting
#blueskyart#art
#mosescoulee

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
ronjons.bsky.social
#art#oilpainting#mosescoulee
#Larsengallery#grimeslake

Moses Coulee (named for Chief Moses) begins south of Mansfield at Grimes Lake.

In February my 36” x 48” oil entered the permanent collection of Yakima Valley College Larson Gallery along with 24 other artworks bequeathed by Maia Mittlestaedt
An oil painting of a lake with a shadow in the foreground and basalt cliffs with talus slopes in the distance.
May 16, 2025 at 12:47 PM
ronjons.bsky.social
199
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrubsteppe
#oilpainting#rock
#blueskyart#art
#mosescoulee

a good ptg.
which means:
I wish for another like it

But it won’t happen,
cuz I don’t put things back where they are supposed to go

Variant
oil on board
10” x 16”
2008
An oil painting of a shrub-steppe landscape of a cliff and a talus slope with cliffs in the background, the sky is blue and orange. There are green spots, orange spots, yellow spots in a field of purple.
March 23, 2025 at 9:59 PM
ronjons.bsky.social
239
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#columbiariver#mosescoulee
#oilpainting#art#landscape
#blueskyart#art#rock#rain

Painting with artist friends. We had to cut it short because the rain just wouldn’t stop

Moses Coulee meets Columbia River
oil on board
18”x 18”
1994
Oil painting of a very tall coulee as it terminates at the Columbia River. Fog in the background and a train trestle in the foreground. There is both melted snow and bare ground. The image has a lot of white and a few earth tones.
April 10, 2025 at 4:13 AM
ronjons.bsky.social
226
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#mosescoulee
#oilpainting#art
#blueskyart

Five of a group of six:

Plutonic-5
oil on board
8” x 16”
2008
An oil painting of rock cliffs. The sky is bright, blue and turquoise. There are patchy brush strokes all over the painting. The center part of the painting has a magenta colored ground that shows through there are yellow, green and blue and gray and red strokes. The foreground has some green in it.
April 1, 2025 at 3:31 AM
ronjons.bsky.social
42/100
paintings of the shrub-steppe
basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrub-steppe#basalt
#oilpainting#art#coulee
#MosesCoulee

Trying for economy, but nothing worthy omitted.

(3) Coulee studies
oil on basswood
(3) 4”x 6 5/8”
2010
February 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
ronjons.bsky.social
143
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrubsteppe
#oilpainting
#blueskyart#art
#mosescoulee

Road to Field Station
oil on board
11” x 14”
2018
An oil painting showing two large round irrigated fields split by a road which connects to another road that runs by a large rock bench. In the background low lying, soft, hills can be seen. Above that is a blue sky.
March 7, 2025 at 2:36 AM