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Ron McGaughey
@ronjons.bsky.social
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
January 4, 2026 at 2:29 AM
#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
December 31, 2025 at 5:45 PM
#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
December 31, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Reposted by Ron McGaughey
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.
December 8, 2025 at 11:16 AM
#art#blueskyart
#oilpainting#landscape
#coulee#cataract#dryfalls

Cataract Height
with Telephone Poles

oil on canvas
36” x 35”
12/8/25
2025
December 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
#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
November 30, 2025 at 11:18 PM
#CatCatRedLight #OilPaint #Red #Close-up #Art #Painting

How can you not like CAD red light?
November 28, 2025 at 5:10 PM
#Caturday#cat#tomcat#dreaming

“Boyfriend”dreaming
about tomorrow being
Caturday
and all that.
November 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Reposted by Ron McGaughey
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.
November 25, 2025 at 8:33 PM
#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
November 23, 2025 at 1:43 AM
#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
November 10, 2025 at 1:22 AM
November 4, 2025 at 2:50 AM
#art#blueskyart
#oilpainting#landscape
#DeepLake#rock
#fallcolor#parkinglot
#coulee#sunlakes

Meadow Creek Color
and Parking Lot
oil on panel
9” x 12”
October 2025
November 1, 2025 at 10:49 PM
#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
November 1, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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October 28, 2025 at 11:59 AM
October 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
#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
October 26, 2025 at 6:26 PM