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

Douglas Creek Canyon, Palisades/Moses Coulee Area, WA
#mosescoulee #slotcanyon #iceagefloods #lakemissoula #geology #nature #art #awe #pnw

A small oil painting of a small rock canyon

254
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#oilpainting
#mosescoulee
#pleinair#landscape
#blueskyartoilpainting

McCartney Creek
oil on board
2001
6“ x 9“

An oil painting on Yupo paper of white popular trees reflected in a lake with cliffs behind.

253
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#oilpainting
#mosescoulee
#pleinair#landscape
#blueskyartoilpainting

This one is close
to incohering,
esp if you aren’t
family with the motif

Parking Lot,
White Poplars,
Dock and Lake.
2015
oil on yupo
20” x 26”

Oil painting of small creek gorge.

251
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#oilpainting
#mosescoulee
#pleinair#landscape
#blueskyartoilpainting

McCartney Creek
oil on board
9”x6”

An oil painting in the group of paintings called Plutonic. This is number six. It is very much a field painting and the physical forms are barely visible. You can see sky in the left-hand corner. The foreground is a flat that leads up to a slope which leads up to a vertical with multiple colors. The center is largely vacant, especially on the left-hand side.

227
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#mosescoulee
#oilpainting#art
#blueskyart

Six of a group of six:

Plutonic-6
oil on board
8” x 16”
2008

An oil painting of rock cliffs. The sky is bright, blue and turquoise. There are patchy brush strokes all over the painting. The center part of the painting has a magenta colored ground that shows through there are yellow, green and blue and gray and red strokes. The foreground has some green in it.

226
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#mosescoulee
#oilpainting#art
#blueskyart

Five of a group of six:

Plutonic-5
oil on board
8” x 16”
2008

An oil painting of a rock cliff and talus slope. The image is divided by a diagonal near the center of the painting. The left half is the distance. The right half is the fore ground where a vertical rock shape has multiple dabs of color that define it and a lot of white of the gesso showing through.

225
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#mosescoulee
#oilpainting#art
#blueskyart

Four of a group of six:

Plutonic-4
oil on board
8” x 16”
2008

A horizontal format oil painting. There’s a blue stroke in the sky in the middle of the painting. There’s green in the foreground. There’s magenta in the middle of the painting as a wash behind. There’s a viridian stroke near the horizon. On the left and right are dark forms with dark strokes laid on top.

224
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#mosescoulee
#oilpainting#art
#blueskyart

On the edge of believable color that can build form…When I pretend it is a night 🌚scene, it helps me appreciate it more. 🖌️🧐

Three of a group of six:

Plutonic-3
oil on board
8” x 16”
2008

Horizontal format, oil painting painted on an indian yellow ground. There are thick strokes of clouds and patches of blue in the sky. There is a central dark vertical rock cliff with hints of the structure around it . To the left there is a cliff behind and to the right of that, and behind, that there is a further cliff on the horizon.

223
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#mosescoulee
#oilpainting#art
#blueskyart

Two of a group of six:

Plutonic-2
oil on board
8” x 16”
2008

A horizontal format oil, painting of the basalt out in the shrub-steppe . The colors are violets, burnt, red, greenish ochre brown and dark blue with a yellow ochre ground showing through. There is little or no sky.

222
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#mosescoulee
#oilpainting#art
#blueskyart
#basalt

Loose paint, washes and impasto. Observed motif,
not fanciful inventions.

One of a group of six:

Plutonic-1
oil on board
8” x 16”
2008

A panoramic oil painting of the basalt cliffs 1/3 of the way from the left edge is an orange dot next to blue cliffs on the horizon. On the right there is a viridian green stroke on the horizon. There are pure colors dotted around the painting, contrasting off of each other.

221
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#mosescoulee
#oilpainting#art
#blueskyart
#basalt

Can a pure orange
dot of paint
live on the horizon convincingly?

Zero of a group of six:

Plutonic-O
oil on board
8” x 16”
2008

An oil painting of a shrub-steppe landscape of a cliff and a talus slope with cliffs in the background, the sky is blue and orange. There are green spots, orange spots, yellow spots in a field of purple.

199
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrubsteppe
#oilpainting#rock
#blueskyart#art
#mosescoulee

a good ptg.
which means:
I wish for another like it

But it won’t happen,
cuz I don’t put things back where they are supposed to go

Variant
oil on board
10” x 16”
2008

A very spare , geometric oil painting of a coulee road seen from a height. In the distance a green field can be seen down coulee. The secondary colors, orange green and violet are all represented in high key. Can you find them?

196
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrubsteppe
#oilpainting#basalt
#blueskyart#art
#Mosescoulee

Three Devils
oil on board
16” x 20”

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.

193
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrubsteppe
#oilpainting#basalt
#blueskyart#art
#mosescoulee

Moses Coulee Rock
and Irrigated Fields
oil on board
14” x 11”
2009

A landscape painting in oil. It’s a close-up of columnar basalt. It is a series of vertical lines that describe the rock. There is orange and bright, green, and brown, brushstrokes.

154
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrubsteppe
#oilpainting
#blueskyart#art
#mosescoulee

Columnar
oil on panel
12” x 16”
2002

A landscape painting done in gouache. The foreground is muted sagebrush in shadow. There’s a yellow band of light behind that, and behind that, cliffs. The upright portion of the cliffs are in shadow. Talus slopes are half in light, half in shadow. There is a blue sky.

153
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrubsteppe
#gouache
#blueskyart#art
#mosescoulee

Moses Coulee Near 2
gouache on panel
16“ x 20“
2002

An oil painting of a creek cutting through rock into a small plunge pool in the bottom right corner of the painting. Above that looms a cliff that the creek has wound around. In the background you can see yellow ochre colored grass on a hill with small rock forms, and above that a sky composed of only blue and pink with the white of the ground, making up the bright edges of the clouds.

151
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrubsteppe
#oilpainting
#blueskyart#art
#Mosescoulee
#DouglasCreek

Cool noon,
Cool Chroma,
at Douglas Creek.
oil on board
16” x 20”

Oil painting of very tall cliffs carved out by catastrophic ice age flooding. High voltage ⚡️ power lines and towers can be seen at the bottom right and top left. A reddish brown talus slope at approximately 45 degree is painted as a triangle shape on the left side of the painting. In the foreground are 40’ tall poplars for scale.

150
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrubsteppe
#oilpainting
#blueskyart#art
#Mosescoulee

50 miles long.
800’ cliffs.
Abandoned cataract,
Moses Coulee,
is the deepest of 4 major paths of ice age flooding.

Hanging Canyons,
Moses Coulee
oil on board
12” x 16”
1993

An oil painting of a winter scene of a coulee wall with an undulating S shape and with patches of snow

145
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrubsteppe
#oilpainting
#blueskyart#art
#mosescoulee

Moses Coulee-March
oil on board
12“ x 16“
1993

A vertical oil painting of a winter scene, looking down a coulee that is in the shade looking towards the coulee beyond which is in the light. The sky is overcast. Patches of snow can be seen.

144
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrubsteppe
#oilpainting
#blueskyart#art
#mosescoulee

McCartney Creek
oil on board
20“ x 16“
2002

An oil painting showing two large round irrigated fields split by a road which connects to another road that runs by a large rock bench. In the background low lying, soft, hills can be seen. Above that is a blue sky.

143
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrubsteppe
#oilpainting
#blueskyart#art
#mosescoulee

Road to Field Station
oil on board
11” x 14”
2018

Oil painting of the basalt cliffs. There is a purple triangular shadow on the talus slope. The ground is yellow ochre with some green and light blue. The sky is mostly clear, but there is a cloud on the horizon.

108
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrubsteppe
#basalt#oilpainting
#blueskyart#art
#Mosescoulee

Moses Coulee
oil on board
8” x 16”
2018

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.

102
paintings of the
shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrubsteppe
#basalt#oilpainting
#blueskyart#art
#Mosescoulee

Mose Coulee Cliffs
oil on board
12” x 16”
2013

55/100
paintings of the Shrub-steppe, basalt, sagebrush,water, light

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

6 years later the impulse to paint came back. A new looser download had occurred, a new lyric wind.

Basalt, Greasewood Flats
oil on panel
6” x 9”
2008

54/100
paintings of the Shrub-steppe
basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrub-steppe#coulee#basalt
#gouache#art#blueskyart
#Mosescoulee

I have made pictures all my life but in 2002 the tide went out and I just stopped. Still not sure why. Last ptg:

Sulphur Springs
gouache on panel
20” x 26”
2002

53/100
paintings of the Shrub-steppe
basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrub-steppe#coulee#basalt
#gouache#art#blueskyart
#Mosescoulee

Moses Coulee, February
gouache on panel
20” x 26”
2002

43/100
paintings of the shrub-steppe
basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrub-steppe#basalt
#oilpainting#art#coulee
#MosesCoulee

G.W. Flats
12” x 16”
oil on panel
2018

42/100
paintings of the shrub-steppe
basalt, sagebrush,water, light

#shrub-steppe#basalt
#oilpainting#art#coulee
#MosesCoulee

Trying for economy, but nothing worthy omitted.

(3) Coulee studies
oil on basswood
(3) 4”x 6 5/8”
2010