#art#blueskyart#underpainting #oilpainting#landscape #LakeChelan#Chelanbutte #snowfall#january#skiff #winter 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.

#art#blueskyart#basalt #oilpainting#landscape #LowerGrandCoulee#rock #scabland#shrub-steppe #Deeplake#reflection #view#water#lake Specular Prospect at Deep Lake oil on canvas 16” x 20” 1/11/26

#art#blueskyart#basalt #oilpainting#landscape #LowerGrandCoulee#rock #scabland#shrub-steppe #rockfall#smoke Coulee Rockfall oil on canvas 16” x 20” 1/10/26

Quilomene Bay, Quilomene Wildlife Area from the Babcock Bench area, WA #shrubsteppe #columbiariver #pnw #eastslopes #leewardside

#art#blueskyart#basalt #oilpainting#landscape#arch #LowerGrandCoulee#rock #scabland#shrub-steppe Basalt Arch oil on canvas 16” x 20” 1/3/26

#Peace#NewYears#2026 #ChicoMarx#OlympiaFilmSociety PEACE ON EARTH already This has been on my wall since December 2001. It was the movie calendar for the Olympia Film Society at the Capitol Theater. (Monkey Business played on January 29, 2002) Maybe 2026 is the year… PEACE ON EARTH already

#art#blueskyart #oilpainting#landscape #ColumbiaRiver#HowardFlat Keeping in mind edges, fades (ombré), desaturation of receding planes, color call-and-response, and saving pure chromatic pigments for focal points. Columbia River, Howard Flat, and Beebe Flat oil on canvas 20” x 36” 12/30/25

Today is the birthday of cartoonist Elzie Crisler “E.C.” Segar (Dec. 8, 1894-Oct. 13, 1938). In 1919, he created the newspaper strip, Thimble Theatre, and on January 17, 1929, that strip contained the 1st appearance of his most famous creation, Popeye.

#art#blueskyart #oilpainting#landscape #coulee#cataract#dryfalls Cataract Height with Telephone Poles oil on canvas 36” x 35” 12/8/25 2025

#art#blueskyart #oilpainting#landscape #ColumbiaRiver#Chelan #ChelanButte#breaks #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

#CatCatRedLight #OilPaint #Red #Close-up #Art #Painting How can you not like CAD red light?

#Caturday#cat#tomcat#dreaming “Boyfriend”dreaming about tomorrow being Caturday and all that.

My personal version of depression and anxiety involves my feeling absolutely terrible about myself, as if I had done something wrong or forgotten something vital or was somehow failing dreadfully at being a human. It is distressing, yes, but it is also SO ANNOYING. I'm fine. I am a goddamn delight.

#art#blueskyart #oilpainting#landscape #DeepLake#rock #coulee#sunlakes Basaltic DP. LK., East End, (with Bird Apparition) oil on canvas 24” x 30” Nov 22, 2025

#art#blueskyart #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

#art#blueskyart #oilpainting#landscape #DeepLake#rock #DonPaulDraw #coulee#sunlakes Don Paul Draw oil on canvas 18” x 24” November 2025

#art#blueskyart #oilpainting#landscape #DeepLake#rock #fallcolor#parkinglot #coulee#sunlakes Meadow Creek Color and Parking Lot oil on panel 9” x 12” October 2025

#art#blueskyart #oilpainting#landscape #DeepLake#rock A field-painting “fail”, brought home Studio rework. Chance to experience new rhythms. Color pushed so far that it gives away its name, divorcing itself from the imagined whole. Stop. Deep Lit Rock oil on Yupo 9” x 12” October2025

#halloween #jack-o-lantern #crescentmoon Happy Halloween!

#art#blueskyart #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

#art#blueskyart #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

#art#blueskyart #oilpainting#landscape #LowerGrandCoulee #DeepLake#rock #goldcolored Aureate oil on board 16” x 20” Oct 2025

#art#blueskyart #oilpainting#landscape #LowerGrandCoulee #DeepLake#rock Tops of White Poplars Poking Above Walls of Basalt oil on board 16” x 20” Oct 2025

#art#blueskyart #oilpainting#landscape #LowerGrandCoulee #DeepLake#rock Lith oil on board 9” x 12” Oct 2025

Amazing auroras in Fairbanks, Alaska

#oilpainting #coulee#blueskyart #art#pleinair#basalt#rock October morning, painting in the Lower Grand Coulee.

Tiny Chelan WA is in the house!!!! #NoKings

#ColorWheel#oilpainting#warmandcool#darkandlight#limitedpalette#pleinair Taking inventory of paint colors in anticipation of a paint outing. Who gets to go out, who has to stay home?

“HER” the-Sun, Photo taken this summer, in her kitchen. Yes, she’s a good cook.

Meeting others with marvelous ways to travel.

Regular 10-cent human hairnet. Invisible action, self-conforming.

Drying in their own heat.

I’m quite certain he’s a double star.

Probably the solar wind ~~~

“This is a movement…This is an achievement of a whole society…I am just one person.” The beautiful humility of Venezuelan pro-democracy leader, Maria Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

My painting SEA SKY SUNRISE

Mark Grantham (Canadian, born 1966) "A Time for Reflection", 2017. Oil on Canvas, 24 × 36 inches #art #oilpainting @bsky.art

Winslow Homer - Bermuda, 1900

Here comes MAGA’s destruction of rural hospitals. youtu.be/HZq94uLdj08

#caturday#tomcat#relax “Boyfriend” looking sharp for CATURDAY.

#art#blueskyart#collage #notebook#yellow#citrine Two Word Poem to Citrine paper collage in a A-5 Kanso Noto notebook August 2025

Morning light spills across Lake Wenatchee, turning the water into a mirror so clear you can see every stone below. #naturephotography #lakewenatchee #pacificnorthwestbeauty