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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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Coulee Rockfall
oil on canvas
16” x 20”
1/10/26
Oil painting of a shrub-steppe landscape showing a large talus slope and smoke on the horizon.
January 10, 2026 at 9:08 PM
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#view#water#lake

Specular Prospect
at Deep Lake
oil on canvas
16” x 20”
1/11/26
A vertical oil painting of a morning scablands image, a specular prospect, a lake seen from the high notch of coulee walls.
January 11, 2026 at 11:44 PM
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69/100
paintings of the Shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

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OpeningDay
oil on canvas
16” x 22”
2013
February 14, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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#DeepLake#rock
#coulee#sunlakes

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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Lith
oil on board
9” x 12”
Oct 2025
Small oil painting of basalt landscape with lake in foreground.
October 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Alkali Rock Forms
oil on board
18“ x 24“
1993
An oil painting a basalt rock forms. Two lakes behind in the distance with an isthmus cutting between
March 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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112
paintings of the
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#basalt#oilpainting
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Sentinel
oil on canvas
9” x 12”
2019
February 28, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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113
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

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#basalt#oilpainting
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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
#Sunlakes#DeepLake

Deep Lake
oil on canvas
9” x 12”
February 7, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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#oilpainting#landscape#arch
#LowerGrandCoulee#rock
#scabland#shrub-steppe

Basalt Arch

oil on canvas
16” x 20”
1/3/26
An oil painting of a basalt arch in the springtime. It has a green grassy floor. There is a gap that you could crawl through.
January 4, 2026 at 2:29 AM
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102
paintings of the
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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
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91/100
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#basalt#oilpainting#art
#blueskyart

Greasewood Flats
oil on canvas
12” x 36”
2010
February 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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73/100
paintings of the Shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

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

Greasewood Flats
oil on canvas
24” x 28”
February 14, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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193
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

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#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
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7/100
paintings of the Shrub-steppe
basalt, sagebrush,

#shrub-steppe#coulee#basalt
#oilpainting#art#blueskyart
February 5, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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101
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

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#basalt#watercolor
#blueskyart#art
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#Columbiariver

Columbia with Erratics
watercolor on arches
32” x 48”
1990
February 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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27/100
paintings of the shrub-steppe
basalt, sagebrush,water, light

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#oilpainting#art#blueskyart
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Ancient Lake Waterfall
oil on canvas
22” x28”
February 7, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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paintings of the
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#McCartneycreek

McCartney Creek, November
oil on canvas
18” x 24”
2019
February 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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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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70/100
paintings of the Shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

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

Oasis
oil on board
16” x 22”
2013
February 14, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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99/100
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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213
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

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#watercolor
#blueskyart#art
#bluelake

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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paintings of the
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#blueskyart#art
#sunlakes#orange

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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96/100
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#basalt#oilpainting
#blueskyart#art

G.W. Flats
oil on board
7 1/2” x 16”
2010
February 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM