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Ron McGaughey

Ron McGaughey

@ronjons.bsky.social

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Picture maker. Imagine imagination imagining imaginal images. Fountain pen/notebook enthusiast. Landscape painter. Bricoleur. Jump or fall. Paint first, draw later. See more ptgs here: https://www.flickr.com/gp/93776615@N05/b611u6062o

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Lay in

Ron McGaughey @ronjons.bsky.social · 20h

#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

An oil painting of a landscape showing sagebrush, a road, and a large basalt rock form with talus slopes. Large boulders to the right.

Ron McGaughey @ronjons.bsky.social · 1d

#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

An oil painting of a fall landscape scene with deep rich colors of foliage that have turned color, in front of basalt cliffs and a small lake. A number 7 can be seen on the talus slope.

Ron McGaughey @ronjons.bsky.social · 1d

#art#blueskyart
#oilpainting#landscape
#LowerGrandCoulee
#DeepLake#rock
#goldcolored

Aureate
oil on board
16” x 20”
Oct 2025

Oil, painting, landscape of basalt with a bright golden sky.

Ron McGaughey @ronjons.bsky.social · 2d

#art#blueskyart
#oilpainting#landscape
#LowerGrandCoulee
#DeepLake#rock

Tops of White Poplars
Poking Above
Walls of Basalt
oil on board
16” x 20”
Oct 2025

Oil painting of the basalt cliffs and walls with the tops of white popular trees, poking above one of the far walls.

Ron McGaughey @ronjons.bsky.social · 2d

#art#blueskyart
#oilpainting#landscape
#LowerGrandCoulee
#DeepLake#rock

Lith
oil on board
9” x 12”
Oct 2025

Small oil painting of basalt landscape with lake in foreground.

Reposted by Ron McGaughey

Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 3d

Amazing auroras in Fairbanks, Alaska

Ron McGaughey @ronjons.bsky.social · 8d

Deep Lake, East End
oil on canvas
22” x 28”
2025

A photograph of a freshly painted oil painting in front of the basalt and water subject matter that it was painted from.
The painting is still on the easel and you can see the paint palette below.

Ron McGaughey @ronjons.bsky.social · 8d

#oilpainting
#coulee#blueskyart
#art#pleinair#basalt#rock

October morning,
painting in the
Lower Grand Coulee.

Reposted by Ron McGaughey

🐈‍⬛ ChrisCat 🦋💙 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🇨🇭🚨✊🏻🐈‍⬛ @chriscat.bsky.social · 9d

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

Ron McGaughey @ronjons.bsky.social · 16d

#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?

Ron McGaughey @ronjons.bsky.social · 16d

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

Ron McGaughey @ronjons.bsky.social · 16d

Meeting others
with marvelous
ways to travel.

Ron McGaughey @ronjons.bsky.social · 16d

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

Ron McGaughey @ronjons.bsky.social · 16d

Drying in their own heat.

Ron McGaughey @ronjons.bsky.social · 16d

I’m quite certain he’s a double star.

Ron McGaughey @ronjons.bsky.social · 16d

Probably
the
solar wind
~~~