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Alluring Chelan Butte
oil on canvas
24” x 48”
2/8/26
Oil painting of a snow covered butte.
February 8, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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Winter Butte and Moon

oil on canvas
10” x 36”
2/7/26
Panoramic format of a mountain butte next to a lake with a moon 🌕 in a pink and blue sky.
February 7, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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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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#Drylake#Manson

Chelan Butte from Manson
with Spring Showers
oil on canvas
16” x 20”
2/15/26

Valentines Day 💌
A oil painting of a mountain butte in the distance seen from a foreground lake and road. A cloudburst can be seen in the distance.
February 15, 2026 at 12:53 AM
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Chelan Butte Road
with Lake Chelan
oil on canvas
20” x 16”
1/26/26
Oil painting of a springtime butte with a lake behind. A road is visible coming up the mountain and going down the other side. A passenger ferry boat can be seen as a dot in the lower portion of the lake. An isthmus and small town is visible in the distance.
January 26, 2026 at 8:32 PM
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Chelan Butte
With a Skiff
oil on canvas
WIP
12” x 36”
1/17/26

Couldn’t wait. to get back to it.
A four hour stint in
the middle of
the night
got me
this…
2nd session of a landscape oil painted in the studio.
January 17, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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Chelan Butte feature that
looks like the head of a
sleeping elephant.

Seen here from
across the
valley.

Elephant Head
from Union Valley
oil on canvas
18” x 24”
2/17/26
Oil painting of an elephant shaped part of Chelan Butte seen from Union Valley Road. There is a small red shed and trees in subtle foreground shadow. Clouds in the sky with blue sky poking through.
February 17, 2026 at 7:16 PM
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May wildflowers on Chelan Butte
Wildflowers on a springtime morning on a butte with a river and breaking cliffs in the distance
June 12, 2026 at 2:14 PM
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paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

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Lake Chelan,
Looking North
oil on board
6” x 9”
2010
Oil painting of a lake. In the foreground are rolling hill forms.
March 27, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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paintings of the
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From Chelan Butte
oil on board
2011
11” x 14”
An oil painting of a series of hills moving into the distance. A thin strip of clouds and sky can be seen at the top.
May 11, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Truck Heading Out
of Town on Alt 97
with Chelan Butte
oil on canvas
16”x20”
2026
Oil painting of a pickup truck on a rainy highway with a moon in the sky.
May 23, 2026 at 11:34 PM
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Chelan Butte
With a Skiff
oil on canvas
WIP
12” x 36”
1/16/26

Don’t ever remember
doing a lay- in this quickly!

Less than hour for this…

A strong start because
of time restraints.
Beginning of an oil painting. A panorama of a butte with snow coming partway down. In the middle ground is a town to the left and a lake to the right. In the foreground is a dark hill to the left and a light colored hill to the right. The early morning sky is blue.
January 17, 2026 at 3:51 AM
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paintings of the
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Chelan Butte
oil on board
8 1/2” x 14”
1994
An oil painting of a mountain with a lake at the bottom. Shadows can be seen on the mountain. The sky is blue
March 6, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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#breaks#Columbiariver
#Watervilleplateau
#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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Good morning.
Happy Beltane.
Closeup at dawn of balsam root blooms.
May 1, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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#landscape#northslope
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May wildflowers on Chelan Butte
June 12, 2026 at 2:17 PM
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May wildflowers on Chelan Butte

Backside of butte
with Lupin in foreground
Rim Road in mid ground
and Columbia River
in background.
June 12, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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paintings of the
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#Lakechelan
#Chelanbutte
#wapatopoint

oil on board
6” x 10”
2010
Undulating hills can be seen making their way to a lake in the upper right corner of this oil painting. In the distance a small peninsula can be seen jutting out into the lake.
March 6, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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#lakechelan#morning#clouds
#mcneilcanyon#spring#hike

Glacially deposited basalt erratics on the north slope of Lake Chelan Butte
seen on a spring morning hike.
Basalt erratics on a butte. Morning clouds blocking the sun
June 14, 2026 at 4:47 AM
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paintings of the shrub-steppe
basalt, sagebrush,water, light

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#ColumbiaRiver

Limited palette. Painted with three primaries.

Downriver, Chelan Butte
39” x 48”
watercolor on arches
1989
February 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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May wildflowers on Chelan Butte.
Yarrow on the north slope.
June 12, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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Began last spring with a fluorescent green ground
so strong I couldn’t meet it
boldly enough. It sat facing
the wall till now.

Upside down on the easel
was fruitful

Driving up the Butte
oil on canvas
16” x 20”
3/30/24
Oil painting of a road heading up a butte in early spring. The viewer is in a shadow looking out. There is a glow from over the top aura-like marks establishing that paint built the image because the marks draw attention.
March 31, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

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Little Butte
oil on board
8 1/2” x 14”
1994
An oil painting of a mountain with blue sky above and a lake below. An alluvial fan can be seen with a park on it.
March 6, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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#ColumbiaPlateau

Line, plane, tones
and color gradients,
seeing fades from dark to light,
or from one color to another,
both & neither

Plateau, Breaks, and Butte
oil on canvas
12” x 39 1/2”
Thanksgiving weekend
2025
Oil painting of a view from Lake Chelan Butte, looking east, towards the Columbia River and the Columbia Plateau. A bench can be seen halfway up on the breaks .
November 30, 2025 at 11:18 PM