Teanaway Autumn

"Teanaway Autumn", 8 x 10 In, Oil, 2014
A painting from a few years ago from the Teanaway River Valley.
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Street in Cle Elum

"Street in Cle Elum, 8 x 10 In, Oil, 2009, NFS

This is another painting from one of my first plein air painting trips--a trip to Cle Elum, Washington in 2009.

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Winthrop Field

"Winthrop Field", 10 x 10 In, Oil, 2017

Washington State has everything: Pacific coast, rivers, mountains, deserts, farmland, old growth forest, cities, volcanos! I just read that the Cascade Forest Conservancy has won their lawsuit to deny mining exploration near Mt. St Helens. https://wawild.org/successful-lawsuit-halts-mining-threat-in-green-river-valley-near-mount-st-helens/

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Man with Donkey

"Man with Donkey", 8 x 10 In, Oil, 2009

Going back in time--to 2009--to my wonderful painting days in Cle Elum, Washington.

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Wenatchee Hills and Valley

"Wenatchee Hills and Valley", 10 x 12 In, Oil, 2021

I love going east of the mountains, though the passes are closed on and off these days due to rain and snow in the higher elevations.

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Desert Sage Republic

"Desert Sage Republic". 11 x 14 Oil, 2019

This is an image from my trip to Republic in 2019. Republic is a town in northeastern Washington State surrounded by desert, hills, mountains, lakes and rivers. The area is intersected by the Columbia River about 100 miles north of the Grand Coulee Dam. The Grand Coulee was a mythical name to me as a child--we'd go off in our green Chevy station wagon to camp in eastern Washington. I didn't know anything of the issues of the dams and the displacement of tribal lands and whole towns, of the destruction of salmon spawning in some 1100 miles of river and tributaries.
https://www.nwcouncil.org/reports/columbia-river-history/grandcouleeimpactsonfish.


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Yakima Hills Road

"Yakima Hills Road", 11 x 12 In, Oil, 2017

Yakima hills from a trip a few years ago.

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Cle Elum Hills

"Cle Elum Hills", 8 x 10 In, Oil, 2021

This was painted in June at the Plein Air Washington paintout in Cle Elum, Washington. Cle Elum is a town just east of Snoqualmie Pass on I-90. I've camped, hiked, climbed and painted in the area since I was a child.

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Clouds Yakima Hills

"Clouds Yakima Hills"

This is a study of the dry hills of Eastern Washington.

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Columbia Dry Hills

"Columbia Dry Hills", 8 x 10 In, Oil, 2020

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Hills above Curlew Lake

"Hills above Curlew Lake", 11 x 14 In, Oil on Panel

In June I traveled to Republic, Washington, for one of our Plein Air Washington paint outs. This is a beautiful area, remote from the intensity of the I-5 corridor in Western Washington, with expanses of fields, hills, mountains and beautiful lakes.

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Mud Lake

"Mud Lake", 11 x 14 In, Oil on Museum Board

We painted along the shoreline of Mud Lake on the last day of the Plein Air Washington paint-out to Republic, Washington in June, 2019. The area about Republic is beautiful.

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Palouse Walls

"Palouse Wall", 9 x 9 In, Oil on Museum Board, Plein Air

Painted on my trip with Plein Air Washington to the Palouse in May. How I love Eastern Washington!

Patit Road - NFS

"Patit Road", 10 x 12 In, Oil on Museum Board
I painted this in early June near Walla Walla in the southeastern corner of Washington State with Plein Air Painters of Washington and the Washington Pastel Society. It is usually dry and warm in Eastern Washington at this time of year, but it rained on and off the entire weekend.

Sketch Touchet Road

"Sketch Touchet Road", 8 x 10 In, Oil on Museum Board
This is definitely a very fast sketch, done in maybe 15 minutes before the rain started. But there is something I like about it and I may do a studio painting from it.

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From Touchet Road

"From Touchet Road", 7 x 12 In, Oil on Museum Board
This painting was done in between the rainfall in the Southeast corner of Washington State. I think it is usually much drier in this area by this time of year, but we have had so much rain.

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Hawk Creek Trail - Sold

6/24/10 "Hawk Creek Trail", 9" x 9", Oil
Now I'm really going back to find something to post this week while I am gone.  This was one of the Eastern Washington paintings from the beginning of May.  We came out to this creek--the light was pretty flat, everything seemed pretty gray and I was thinking there was nothing to paint, until I turned around and looked up creek and the sun lit up the path to the falls, which I didn't paint, because this was the spot.  I probably won't be posting again for a couple of days because I will be traveling.

Dry Falls Bluffs

5/11/10 "Dry Falls Bluffs", 10" x 12", Oil
Once I am finished with an outdoor painting, I almost never change it, except for an occasional minor adjustment, because I can never recapture the immediate response to the scene in front of me in the studio. However, sometimes an outdoor painting doesn't quite work out and it is interesting to try it again in the studio--a new painting, not working on the old one. This is one of those cases.

Dry Falls Shadows

5/7/10 "Dry Falls Shadows", 8" x 10", Oil
One of the days I was in Walla Walla was rainy, so I actually painted this from a Dry Falls photo on my computer in my motel room--a first for me!  I was so paranoid I laid plastic everywhere.  The main things I like about this painting are that its not tortured--its just a lot of big paint strokes, and I like the colors.

Dry Falls Basalt

5/6/10 "Dry Falls Basalt", 8" x 10", Oil
Imagine a waterfall three and a half miles wide and 400 feet high, with flood waters from the massive Lake Missoula plunging every 50 years across an area that had been repeatedly covered with successive lava flows, in some places two miles thick, the second biggest lava field in the world now known as the Columbia Plateau.  What you see now beneath the dry head walls of the falls are big chunks of oxidized black basalt.  It is spring there now and there have been a lot of rains (it rained the day we were there after which the wind blew with substantial gusto).  So the desert floor is a dusky green.  A really beautiful area and a challenge to paint.