Gabriel Liston

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Drawer, painter, illustrator, whistler Images of water history and domestic life he/himmish lastwater.net Rep'd by Andrea Colvin Creative Agency banner: oil painting of pink sky over Umatilla lands

Rough Ink brush sketch on old sheet music of a woman with one hand on hip wearing knee boots and an open trench coat, head cocked to one side
Tiny oil painting of a small little free library in the snow. There are a couple of footprints. The snow is cleared away from its front as if the door has been open and closed. Behind it is snow-covered sagebrush. Scrawled into the paint is the word, Oasis.
Rough oil painting study of a woman with teal hair, dark roots, in a richly patterned kimono, sitting tall on a stool, looking back to her right, lit from below.
Watercolor and ink sketch of three skateboarders, young guys, not white, skating around a 20 foot tall modernist steel fountain, kinda like a hollowed-out cabinet with a guillotine, with a sloped approach. A dark parking garage is behind.
Brush ink drawing on musical score of a woman resting her chin on her hands, elbows in ground, while doing the splits. Each leg runs off the rage of the paper.
Oil painting of an arcing altocumulus cloud over two flat top peaks in Glacier National Park. The view is from the Blackfeet Nation, looking across a grassy ridge with two small buildings in shadow.
Delft blue painting on sanded-off paperback book of two skeletons with backpacks leaning in and giving each other a hug.
Delft blue painting on a sanded-off paperback book cover of a boy pausing his dirt bike and gripping a long pole in a very determined way.
6 by 10 inch oil study of a snowy side street and empty lot. Mid ground is an SUV, a camper, and a ramshackle pink house. Behind them are bare trees and the St Johns Bridge. Ridge beyond is dark blue, sky a mix of clouds, just a touch of light blue cracking through.
Drawing of an old man leaning on a broom handle looking out a window. Outside a woman photographs two children. They are holding paper up to cover over the last R and the W on the window’s painted phase, Watch Bayocean Grow.
Oil painting of a large house in the Oregon Coast Range. There’s a thin layer of snow on the roof, the ridge behind, and on the field in the foreground. Two dogs play in the field. Cursive text in the sky above the ridge reads: nobody complains. Horizontal guidelines are lightly inscribed in the sky paint.
Dark blue, snow-filled oil painting of an A-frame tucked against a ridge. A pink glow comes from a buried fire near the house. In the foreground a girl in heavy winter gear carries a large block of packed snow.
Photo of an oil painting on a paperback book. A very large Port Orford Cedar rises above a hillside cemetery. There’s a small hoodied figure standing in front of one tombstone. Incised text reads like a book title, The White Village.
Gouache and watercolor illustration of a child in a wet suit and hood carrying a large bag down a rural driveway at dawn. A Newfoundland dog follows behind with a life jacket in his teeth. Added topo map scraps read Gabriel Liston, lastwater.net
Small oil painting of an Oregon Coast basalt outcrop silhouetted under hazy moonlight with a tiny bright boat light on the horizon. A title painted across the dark sky says, Away Game.
Ink drawing of a big black Newfoundland dog licking the head of a tiny white kitten, who is leaning in hard for this. The woman sitting on the bed next to the kitten says, Cisco, you’re gonna make the kitten crispy.
Oil painting of skinny white cast with a dark ear reaching up to bite a peony leaf. The peonies are in a tiny vase balanced on a tiny stereo.
Oil painting of a pale yellow rose, mostly closed, with lots of leaves and a couple dried roses kind of swirling around it
Oil painting of a broken trellis of roses stumbling along in morning light
A sanded-off paperback with a blue painting on its cover showing a small child in glass, duct tape over her mouth, tearing another strip of duct tape to stick to the large doll laying across her lap.
Oil painting of a red rainbow over a field in the Hudson Valley. A lightning bolt strikes nearby. An old van sits in the field. Nearby a small hound runs up into some brush
oil painting of an aspen tree meadow in autumn. There is a tiny apple tree in the foreground, a young woman with pink hair and overalls in the mid-ground, and a bit of an A-frame beyond the trees. The light is bright, the grass and clouds are tall.
Oil painting of a Newfoundland dog standing in deep snow looking down into a valley and tiny river several hundred feet below.
Watercolor sketch of late afternoon light on the New River Gorge. The River is swollen in full spring glory.
Ink and watercolor sketch at the door of Seattle’s Nakamura Federal Courthouse 6 January 2021. Two US Marshals in dark blazers stand by the door, one peers in, another stares back across the plaza. Text reads, on an afternoon where two US Marshals gotta knock on a courthouse door ‘cause their key cards don’t seem to work.
Watercolor and gouache picture of the Columbia River under a big cloud with a fragment of rainbow. Sunlight hits a rough houseboat floating just off the shore.
A tiny oil painting inset in a wood block. Shows a Newfoundland dog lounging across a nordic ski trail. Oregon’s Mt Hood is in the background wearing a big cloud cap.
Ink and watercolor sketch of a snowy valley on the evening. Three people are lounging on an inner tube and an inflatable unicorn halfway down a sledding run. One person raises a beer. The unicorn rider throws his headband and says Oh ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Scarlet pink monotype of a child in a Dracula cape skulking over a log crossing a fern-filled ravine
Painting of a longhaired kid in sweats running past a toddler gripping the top of its pants. Both are looking away from us. Painting resembles a blue Delft tile, but is on a partially sanded paperback book.
Oil painting of a black Newfoundland dog running through snow with his tongue out and one eye wide open. Heavy snow covers the firs behind him.
Tiny oil painting of Newfoundland dog standing on a ridge of snow. In the distance is an abandoned corral and livestock ramp.
Miniature oil painting of a Newfoundland dog in a snowy landscape pausing before crossing a narrow, hole-pocked bridge over a creek.
Watercolor illustration of a girl in an early morning bedroom standing on her bed and shushing the big Newfoundland dog that's laying on the floor awaiting further instruction. There's a Godzilla poster above her bed. Added text at bottom right says Gabriel Liston Lastwater.net
Brown pencil drawing of a black rabbit looking cozy on a concrete paver. A word balloon drifts from her butt and says Frrpth.
Big oil painting of two children and a hunk of shot-up plywood in a conifer forest with lots of fallen maple leaves. The boy stands taut with his hands behind his back, looking away from us. The girl, wearing a satchel, aims both her finger-guns at the side of the boy’s head.
Oil painting of a big cloud in the evening sky. Up in the corner is a hazy half moon, with a planet . Silhouetted trees and house below include a band of Christmas lights
Black and white relief print of Newfoundland dog pulling a fir tree on a sledge, looking back up at rabbit perched on the trunk of the tree. The rabbit is very stern.
Watercolor and ink sketch of people standing on a river beach, a man in the center says, “superfund” is not clean up it is risk reduction.
Oil painting of a pink, dragon-shaped cloud rising over the Hudson River above the Indian Point nuclear power station at Peekskill.
3/4 height Gouache portrait of woman in art deco or psuedo-Byzantine style dress and coat holding aviator glasses and looking quietly at the viewer. The background and patterns are decorated with gold paint, Klimt-like, with scrolling details.
Painting of a young, early 20th century woman in a black Red Cross cap and short hair, gloved hand gripping a big steering wheel, looking over her right shoulder.