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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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#art#blueskyart#oilpainting
#pleinair#lowergrandcoulee
#SunlakesStatePark

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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#Sunlakes#scablands
#oilpainting#landscape
#Lowergrandcoulee
#greatflood#view

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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#Sunlakes#DonPaulDraw
#oilpainting#landscape
#Lowergrandcoulee
#promunturium

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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#oilpainting#landscape
#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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#oilpainting#landscape
#DeepLake#rock
#kolk#parkinglot
#coulee#sunlakes

Deep Lake with
White Poplars, Kolk,
Phthalo Parking Lot,
and Lapis Lazuli Cut
oil on canvas
30” x 40”
November 9, 2025
An oil painting of a landscape. The image shows the end of a lake on the left and to the right of that a parking lot. Between those two there are a group of trees. The landscape is of basalt rock formations.
November 10, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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#oilpainting#landscape
#DeepLake#rock
#DonPaulDraw
#coulee#sunlakes

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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#oilpainting#landscape
#DeepLake#rock
#fallcolor#parkinglot
#coulee#sunlakes

Meadow Creek Color
and Parking Lot
oil on panel
9” x 12”
October 2025
An oil painting of the end of a lake next to a parking lot with a road receding into the distance and a creek receding into the distance with fall color within the tracing path it traces.
November 1, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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#oilpainting#landscape
#LowerGrandCoulee
#DeepLake#rock
#umatillarock
#Sunlakes#coulee
#spring#Dryfalls

South End of
Umatilla Rock
With Parking Lot
oil on canvas
20” x 32”
May 2025
An oil painting of a landscape showing sagebrush, a road, and a large basalt rock form with talus slopes. Large boulders to the right.
October 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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#oilpainting#landscape
#LowerGrandCoulee
#DeepLake#rock
#luckyseven
#Sunlakes#coulee
#Autumn#deepcolor

Lucky Seven at
Vic Meyers Lake,
Early Morning,
Late October.
oil on board
16” x 20”
Oct 2025
An oil painting of a fall landscape scene with deep rich colors of foliage that have turned color, in front of basalt cliffs and a small lake. A number 7 can be seen on the talus slope.
October 26, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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269
paintings/sketches of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#oilpainting#sunlakes
#art#coulee#basalt
#pleinair#landscape
#handmadebook
#sketchbook

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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268
paintings/sketches of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#oilpainting#sunlakes
#art#coulee#basalt
#pleinair#landscape
#handmadebook
#sketchbook

Coulee.
Handmade sketchbook
with manila pages.
11” x 17”
2016

select pages,
Anastomosis,
splitting and rejoining.
Steamboat Rock
June 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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paintings/sketches of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#oilpainting#sunlakes
#art#coulee#basalt
#pleinair#landscape
#handmadebook
#sketchbook

Coulee.
Handmade sketchbook
with manila pages.
11” x 17”
2016

select pages,
Title page:
Pen and ink.
June 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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paintings/sketches of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#oilpainting#sunlakes
#art#coulee#basalt
#pleinair#landscape
#handmadebook
#sketchbook

Coulee.
Handmade sketchbook
with manila pages.
11” x 17”
2016

select pages,
Inside front cover:
“Ideas without precedent”
June 21, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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paintings/sketches of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#oilpainting#sunlakes
#art#coulee#basalt
#pleinair#landscape
#handmadebook
#sketchbook

Coulee.
Handmade sketchbook
with manila pages.
11” x 17”
2016

select pages,
Cover:
June 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#oilpainting#sunlakes
#art#coulee#basalt
#pleinair#landscape

Playing around with
different colored grounds.
This one is on black ground.

Anchoring Rock
oil on canvas
9” x 12”
6/18/25
An oil painting of basalt
June 20, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#oilpainting#coulee
#sunlakes#art
#pleinair#landscape

untitled coulee study
oil on yupo
5/ /25
10 3/4” x 8”
A small oil painting study of a coulee
June 8, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

##gouache
#sunlakes#art
#pleinair#landscape

That hopeful, excited feeling of taking the tape off and getting a clean edge!

untitled coulee study
gouache on board
unknown date
14 1/2” x 18 1/2”
A gouache painting of a coulee with braided channels .
June 4, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#oilpainting
#sunlakes#art
#pleinair#landscape

new 2025 work:

Top, Face, and Slide
oil on canvas
5/20/2025
12” x 9”
An oil painting from the shrub -steppe showing a talus slide, a rock face and the flat beyond.
June 3, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#oilpainting
#sunlakes#art
#pleinair#landscape

new 2025 work:
Note the bright
fluorescent
coral colored
border that
reappeared when
I took the painters
tape off. I like the accent

Plucked
oil on arches
5/20/2025
8” x 11 1/2”
Oil painting of basalt rock forms.
June 3, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#oilpainting#underpainting
#sunlakes#art#deeplake
#pleinair#landscape

new 2025 work:
fluorescent vermilion
underpainting made tuning some of the delicate greens easier.

Backlit View East
oil on canvas
5/19/2025
18” x 18”
An oil painting in a square format with a bright red orange background wash. The subject matter is basalt forms and a lake in the distance.
June 3, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#oilpainting
#sunlakes#art
#pleinair#landscape

new 2025 work:

Isthmus, Kolk,
Isthmus, Kolk
oil on canvas
5/20/2025
20” x 16”
An oil painting of a shrub steppe landscape showing basalt pothole depressions, rock was plucked out by forceful ice age floodwaters.
June 2, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#oilpainting
#sunlakes#art
#pleinair#landscape

new 2025 work:
same ptg twice,
👀raw version on the left
cleaned up on the right👀

uncooked honesty
OR grafted certainty posing
as improvement?

Duo
oil on canvas
5/ /2025
9” x 12”
Raw version …An oil painting of large rock forms rising out of a coulee , pairing themselves off against the sky. Cleaned up version …An oil painting of large rock forms rising out of a coulee , pairing themselves off against the sky.
June 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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#art#blueskyart
#oilpaintincoulee
#deeplake#sunlakes
#soltek2.0

Went painting last Saturday with new easel .
So great to be outside working with actuality and chance.

see alt about new easel👇👀
May 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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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