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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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Ron McGaughey @ronjons.bsky.social · 6h
#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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Reposted by Ron McGaughey
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Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 3d
Amazing auroras in Fairbanks, Alaska
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Ron McGaughey @ronjons.bsky.social · 7d
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.
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Ron McGaughey @ronjons.bsky.social · 7d
#oilpainting
#coulee#blueskyart
#art#pleinair#basalt#rock

October morning,
painting in the
Lower Grand Coulee.
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Reposted by Ron McGaughey
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🐈‍⬛ ChrisCat 🦋💙 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🇨🇭🚨✊🏻🐈‍⬛ @chriscat.bsky.social · 9d
Tiny Chelan WA is in the house!!!! #NoKings
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Ron McGaughey @ronjons.bsky.social · 15d
#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?
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Ron McGaughey @ronjons.bsky.social · 16d
“HER” the-Sun,
Photo taken
this summer,
in her kitchen.
Yes, she’s a
good cook.
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Ron McGaughey @ronjons.bsky.social · 16d
Meeting others
with marvelous
ways to travel.
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Ron McGaughey @ronjons.bsky.social · 16d
Regular 10-cent
human hairnet.
Invisible action,
self-conforming.
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Ron McGaughey @ronjons.bsky.social · 16d
Drying in their own heat.
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Ron McGaughey @ronjons.bsky.social · 16d
I’m quite certain he’s a double star.
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Ron McGaughey @ronjons.bsky.social · 16d
Probably
the
solar wind
~~~
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Ron McGaughey @ronjons.bsky.social · 17d
Gets away with a compositional diagonal splitting the canvas space in two.
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Ron McGaughey @ronjons.bsky.social · 17d
I appreciate being able to see the strokes. The painter shows his brushwork.
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Ron McGaughey @ronjons.bsky.social · 17d
Yellow in the distance, but still stays back, blue in the foreground, but still stays forward.
Reposted by Ron McGaughey
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 17d
“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.
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Reposted by Ron McGaughey
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Jim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social · 22d
My painting SEA SKY SUNRISE
45 270 3K
Reposted by Ron McGaughey
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Fine Art Gallery @fineartgallery.bsky.social · 22d
Mark Grantham (Canadian, born 1966)
"A Time for Reflection", 2017.
Oil on Canvas, 24 × 36 inches
#art #oilpainting @bsky.art
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Reposted by Ron McGaughey
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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · Sep 27
Winslow Homer - Bermuda, 1900
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Ron McGaughey @ronjons.bsky.social · Sep 15
Here comes MAGA’s destruction of rural hospitals.
youtu.be/HZq94uLdj08
The Biggest Threat To America’s Parents Is Here
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
youtu.be
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Ron McGaughey @ronjons.bsky.social · Sep 13
Our Tom cat with his left clipped ear showing that he’s been fixed.
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