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Scablands Eyeshot
oil on canvas
20” x 16”
1/18/26
Oil painting of lake surrounded by basalt cliffs with a “broken” lake reflection
January 18, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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Promunturium
(Looking S.E
towards Don
Paul Draw)
oil on canvas
16” x 20”
1/17/26
An oil painting of a scablands landscape with a jutting cliff over an emerald colored lake.
January 18, 2026 at 1:47 AM
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Basaltic DP. LK.,
East End,
(with Bird Apparition)
oil on canvas
24” x 30”
Nov 22, 2025
A landscape painting with basalt cliffs and a lake. Bird-like marks are in the top right corner of the sky.
November 23, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

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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

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Orange Note
oil on board
12” x 16”
And oil painting of a shrub-steppe landscape. Near the center top of the painting there is an orange colored rock that dominates.
March 22, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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paintings/sketches of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

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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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213
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

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Blue Lake
watercolor on arches
48” x 32”
1990
A watercolor painting of a lake with cliffs on the other side and blue sky with clouds above.
March 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Best painting day
in the coulee ever!

At lakes cliff edge, recording high speed swallows in flight.

Then painting.

Then 2 great friends show up
totally unexpected
We LAUGH and hike!

Amaze
oil on Yupo
12”x 9”
6/26/26
June 27, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

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Sentinel
oil on canvas
9” x 12”
2019
February 28, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

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Looking Uplake, Deep Lake
oil on canvas
22” x 30”
2020
February 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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26/100
paintings of the shrub-steppe
basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrub-steppe#basalt
#oilpainting#art#blueskyart
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Deep Lake
oil on canvas
9” x 12”
February 7, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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Seen this weekend,
a Foxtail Lily.
A tall pink and white flower in front of basalt cliffs.
May 21, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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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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25/100
paintings of the shrub-steppe
basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrub-steppe#gorge#basalt
#oilpainting#art#blueskyart
#Sunlakes#rockformation

West side of Umatilla Rock
oil on canvas
9” x 12”
February 7, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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Random shots from #easternwashington trip. #soaplake #sunlakes #palouse #palousecountry
May 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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paintings of the
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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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Paint-Out 2026:
4 cold, windy days in May,
painting outdoors in the
Lower Grand Coulee
7 paintings begun outdoors,
none finished on site,
but none overworked.
Clean color starts, all hard won, for later studio finishings.
Seven oil paintings of different sizes depicting basalt and sagebrush landscapes of Sunlakes State Park.
May 18, 2026 at 4:22 AM
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#CouleeCity #SunLakes #Evacuating Heads up!!
June 22, 2026 at 11:22 PM
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18/100
paintings of the Shrub-steppe
basalt, sagebrush,water, light

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Deep Lake-East
oil on yupo
12 1/2” x 9 1/2”
2024
February 6, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

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#oilpainting
#blueskyart#art
#deeplake

Don Paul Draw
oil on board
9” x 12”
2020
Oil painting of a lake with large rock forms on both sides. On the other side of the lake there is a green spot of color. This is one end of a draw that moves up and away from the lake becoming shallower as it gains elevation.
March 27, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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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

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Park Lake
oil on arches
22” x 30”
2018
February 12, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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paintings of the
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On the way
oil on board
12” x 16”
1995
An oil painting of a shrub step landscape.The sky is blue with some clouds. The foreground is yellow grasses with sagebrush on the left. On on the right a cliff silhouette can be seen in the background and on the left sun-lit cliffs in the distance.
March 9, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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paintings of the
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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
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paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

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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