Morning Light, Staithes, UK”
Oil on Canvas - 62 x 51 cm
Created 2023
By Australian Painter Colley Whisson (b.1966)

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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.

#art#blueskyart#spring
#lakechelan#chelanbutteroad
#oilpainting#ChelanButte

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 butte, a lake, and two rivers. Clouds in the sky.

#art#blueskyart#spring
#lakechelan#fields
#oilpainting#ChelanButte
#breaks#Columbiariver
#Watervilleplateau
#Chelan

See Beauty,
See the Butte
oil on arches
23” x 28 3/4”
3/15/26

Oil painting of sloping hills descending to a dark blue river. Across the river is a bench and distant plateau.

#art#blueskyart#spring
#lakechelan#fields
#oilpainting#ChelanButte
#breaks#Columbiariver
#Watervilleplateau

East Slopes Chelan Butte,
with Columbia and
Breaks
oil on canvas
20” x 36”
3/29/26

4’-8” wide cardboard sign for No Kings Rally March 28 2026. Orange peace sign, nuclear explosion and the words Disarm Trump

#NoKings#peace#disarmtrump

John Rogers Cox (American, 1915-1990)
Gray and Gold, 1942
Oil on canvas
91.5 x 151.8 cm (36 x 59 3/4 in.)
Cleveland Museum of Art

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Lake Chelan, Stehekin, WA

The stillness of dawn
Broken by the rising sun
Shadows turn to light

Fond memories of early October 2025.
#Stehekin #LakeChelan #PNWphotography #monochromelandscape #dawnlight #newyear #blueskyartshow

People who believe in an imminent Rapture/Armageddon don't have anything invested in what happens to you here on Earth. You are irrelevant to them and will be treated accordingly.

Northrup Canyon / Northrup Lake, Steamboat Springs State Park, WA
#canyon #lake #scablands #trout #rattlesnakes

Closeup of a buttercup flower.

#flowers#buttercup
#yellow#spring

Happiness
Optimism
Sunshine
Charm
Warmth
Beginnings
Joy
Youth
Radiance
Fortune
Brightness
Generosity
Cheer
Lightheartedness

BUTTERCUP!

Saw our first of the season today.
Beautiful sunny day in the coulee.

a painting titled Hollyhocks by Julia McEntee Dillon, dated approximately 1882.

Congress must return immediately and vote to put an end to this war.

Every Senator should be on the record—the American people deserve to know which of their leaders supports another potentially bloody and costly war in the Middle East.

No war with Iran.

Douglas Creek Slab Falls, Palisades Area, WA
#waterfalls #canyon #mosescoulee

Glacier Peak, Glacier Peak Wilderness, WA
#mountains #wilderness #pnw #nature

Tabletop with tubes of oil paint organized around a color circle of hues.

#art#blueskyart#colorwheel
#oilpainting#tubesofpaint

Doing a reorganization
of the studio.

…a bunch of oil paint tubes
sorted crudely, circling
a color wheel…

Mercury was only 50 arcminutes (0.8°) above a very young waxing crescent Moon this evening. KAS member Pete Mumbower captured this image from his home in Vicksburg, MI.

Thanks for noticing. I really tried to work on that!

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Yes!

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Thanks. Glad you like it!

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! The shapes must repeat all around the world…

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.

#art#blueskyart#spring
#lakechelan#fields
#oilpainting#ChelanButte
#UnionValley#farmbuilding
#breaks#elephanthead#clouds

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

Appreciation!

Fabulous floater variety of Lake Superior agate.
#Photography #Agates #LakeSuperior

Thanks.

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I posted two views this weekend…one is Chelan Butte from Manson and one is from the top of the butte looking south. (not sure which one you are looking at…)