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Bygone Fields on the
South Slopes of
Chelan Butte

oil on canvas
16” x 20”
2/16/26
Oil painting of old fields flowing down to a river with steep breaks leading to a plateau above.
February 15, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

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Columbia with Erratics
watercolor on arches
32” x 48”
1990
February 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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paintings of the Shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrubsteppe#wheat
#basalt#oilpainting
#blueskyart#art
#Watervilleplateau

Plateau Sky
oil on board
6” x 9”
2000
February 23, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

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Yeager Erratic
oil on board
12”x 16”
2012
A large rock next to a road. The rock has graffiti on it.
March 26, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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#Chelan

See Beauty,
See the Butte
oil on arches
23” x 28 3/4”
3/15/26
Oil painting of a butte, a lake, and two rivers. Clouds in the sky.
March 29, 2026 at 11:58 PM
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paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrubsteppe
#basalt#oilpainting
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#Watervilleplateau

Haystack Symmetry
oil on canvas
16” x 18”
1985
One dominant haystack basalt erratic is in the middle of a landscape composition in oil paint. Sky is blue with clouds. Rocks that have fallen over the years are orange. Vertical rock is purple. Foreground is yellow.
February 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#erratics#watervilleplateau
#oilpainting#art#landscape
#blueskyart#art#rock

Encircle
oil on canvas
28” x 40”
2001
An oil painting of a closeup of a basalt erratic -you can barely get around it. There’s two pieces of sky and a piece of ground on the left, otherwise the whole thing is a close-up of a rock.
April 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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41/100
paintings of the shrub-steppe
basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrub-steppe#basalt
#oilpainting#art#coulee
#Farmer#Watervilleplateau

At Farmer
gouache on board
8” x 10”
2002
February 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#oilpainting#breaks
#WatervillePlateau#art
#pleinair#landscape

I did good today.
A win is always
welcome.

On site in AM
Studio finish in PM

Sky, Plateau, Breaks,
Orchard, Cliffs,
River, Butte.
oil on canvas
24“ x 30“
6/18/25
An oil painting, showing a plateau giving way to cliffs that descend down to a river. The foot of a Butte can be seen in the foreground.
June 19, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrubsteppe#orchard
#oilpainting#wheat
#blueskyart#art
#breaks#watervilleplateau

Breaks with
Large Diagonal
Oil on board
2009
8” x 10”
An oil painting of a wheat plateau with a blue sky and clouds above. Below the plateau you can see hills breaking down to a lower plateau that has orchard on it. There’s a strong diagonal moving from left to the right bottom corner. The shadows are purple. The highlights are yellow gold.
March 19, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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East Slopes Chelan Butte,
with Columbia and
Breaks
oil on canvas
20” x 36”
3/29/26
Oil painting of sloping hills descending to a dark blue river. Across the river is a bench and distant plateau.
March 29, 2026 at 11:52 PM
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paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrubsteppe#orchard
#oilpainting#wheat
#blueskyart#art
#breaks#watervilleplateau

Plateau, Wheat
Plateau, Apples
Oil on board
2009
6” x 8”
An oil painting of a wheat plateau with hills breaking down to an Orchard plateau, and finally down to a river that you can barely see in the right hand bottom corner.
March 19, 2025 at 12:51 AM