Ryan Hill

Smoke plume from #BearGulchFire seen from Enumclaw #wawx

Smoky red sunset over the Olympic Mountains seen from Golden Gardens in Seattle, August 27th, 2025

Pretty apocalyptic sunset at Golden Gardens

Easel with plein air oil painting of the towers at Gasworks Park in Seattle Washington August 1, 2025

Oil on canvas showing rust red industrial towers at Gasworks Park in Seattle

Painting at Gasworks this evening

Plein air oil painting of the intersection of Vine Street and Alaskan Way in Seattle Washington, view looking out over Elliot Bay past the Edgewater Hotel on the evening of July 29, 2025

Plein air at Vine & Alaskan Way on the Seattle waterfront 7/29/25

Midsummer sunset #wawx #pnw

Spectacular sunset tonight
#wawx #pnw

Oil painting of the Seattle skyline as seen in May of 2015. Based on a photo taken from the slopes of Upper Queen Anne.

Seattle, May 2015
Oil on 20"×33½" canvas, 2016

Oil painting and printed reference photo of the north end of Dune Peninsula Park in Tacoma Washington

Working on this piece, gonna delete the blues i think

Oil painting in a sketchbook showing the waters of Puget Sound off the northern tip of Point Ruston east of Point Defiance as the sun sets on a gloomy late spring day, June 13th, 2025

June Gloom sunset Point Ruston Tacoma

Oil painting in progress, view south from the northern tip of Dune Peninsula, point Ruston in Tacoma, Washington Plein air June 6th, 2025

#WIP

My painting workspace featuring a couple WIPs Upper left: Tiger Mountain from Klahanie Upper right: Dune Peninsula northern extreme looking south Lower left: Seattle from Snith Cove Lower right: Gasworks Park in January

500 to 800 in Enumclaw!

Clippy

Everytime I see anything AI i get the same sensation as seeing this guy pop up

Oil painting in progress hanging on a wall depicting Smith Cove in Seattle

Work in progress

Oil painting of the RMS Lusitania han8ng at an odd angle wile I apply a wash of browns over the upper right areas of this 17"×34" canvas

Painting in glazes

Dune Peninsula sunset, 5/30/25

Plein air at Dune Peninsula in Tacoma

Two dogs sitting alert on a picnic table covered in snow on a winters day on the PNW

Berkeley and Ruby, 2016

#MSH45 | News
By midday on the West Coast, the world knows: Mount St. Helens has erupted.

Local news crews scramble into helicopters and small planes, staking out ridges and overlooks to film what comes next.

The mountain is still erupting. And they're rolling.

4 paintings hanging on a wall Upper left: Tacoma plein air 2022 Upper right: pushing greens in a Buckley landscape Lower left: Mt Rainier/Tahoma over the Puyallup River near Orting Lower right: Tacoma Narrows and Hidden Beach, Titlow Park

#wip #pnw

4 medium sized oil paintings hanging on a wall Upper left: cruise ship at Smith Cove on a sunny day Upper right: Mt Rainier from Buckley at sunset Lower right: Space Needle over Seattle Center in early spring Lower left: Cloudy skies over Tiger Mountain from the Sammamish plateau

working on these pieces #wip #pnw

Not quite finished piece at the end of the day

Easel with plein air painting of Tiger Mountain and trails from Klahanie on the Sammamish plateau near Issaquah

Plein air on the Sammamish plateau #pnw

Two oil paintings; one depicting the Tacoma Narrows from Hidden Beach at Titlow Park, the other Kelley Farm in Bonney Lake

#wipwednesday

I love this account, thanks for the work you're putting into it, will you cover other eruptive episodes from other years? I remember how exciting the 2004-05 dome building activity was

If you've just joined and need to catch up on this day-to-day look back, start here. 👍

If you want the full deep dive history, go back to January 1 😉

Wow, look at that transmission tower crumple in the background

Oil painting of a train crossing at Titlow Park in Tacoma Washington

#wip #pnw

Cirrus spreading over Puget Sound as the sun sets behind Point Defiance. Taken at Dune Peninsula, Tacoma, Washington, May 8th, 2025

Dune Peninsula tonight #wawx #pnw