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Ron McGaughey
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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.

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#art#blueskyart#basalt
#oilpainting#landscape#arch
#LowerGrandCoulee#rock
#scabland#shrub-steppe

Basalt Arch

oil on canvas
16” x 20”
1/3/26
An oil painting of a basalt arch in the springtime. It has a green grassy floor. There is a gap that you could crawl through.
January 4, 2026 at 2:29 AM
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#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
Newspaper flyer for the Olympia Film Society, graphic artist unknown. It has the words PEACE ON EARTH already and the face of Chico Marx.
December 31, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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#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
Oil painting, depicting Columbia River and Howard flat with the airport on top and the rock formation the “Wart” and on the east side of the river, Beebe Flat. The Wenatchee-Orville rail line and SR 97 can be seen in the bottom center of the painting next to the river
December 31, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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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.
Segar drawing a picture of Popeye The first appearance of Popeye in Thimble Theatre A title card from the Fleischer Popeye cartoons
December 8, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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#art#blueskyart
#oilpainting#landscape
#coulee#cataract#dryfalls

Cataract Height
with Telephone Poles

oil on canvas
36” x 35”
12/8/25
2025
Oil painting of a landscape. The image is of a very high dry fall cataract. Two telephone poles can be seen near the bottom.
December 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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#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
Oil painting of a view from Lake Chelan Butte, looking east, towards the Columbia River and the Columbia Plateau. A bench can be seen halfway up on the breaks .
November 30, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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#CatCatRedLight #OilPaint #Red #Close-up #Art #Painting

How can you not like CAD red light?
A close-up of red light oil paint squeezed onto the pallet
November 28, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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#Caturday#cat#tomcat#dreaming

“Boyfriend”dreaming
about tomorrow being
Caturday
and all that.
Cat asleep on couch
November 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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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
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#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
A landscape painting with basalt cliffs and a lake. Bird-like marks are in the top right corner of the sky.
November 23, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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#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
An oil painting of a landscape. The image shows the end of a lake on the left and to the right of that a parking lot. Between those two there are a group of trees. The landscape is of basalt rock formations.
November 10, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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#oilpainting#landscape
#DeepLake#rock
#DonPaulDraw
#coulee#sunlakes

Don Paul Draw
oil on canvas
18” x 24”
November 2025
Oil painting of a landscape with a lake and the beginning of a draw heading up and away from the lake. A green bush is near the center of the painting. The water is calm and reflective except for the upper right corner.
November 4, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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#art#blueskyart
#oilpainting#landscape
#DeepLake#rock
#fallcolor#parkinglot
#coulee#sunlakes

Meadow Creek Color
and Parking Lot
oil on panel
9” x 12”
October 2025
An oil painting of the end of a lake next to a parking lot with a road receding into the distance and a creek receding into the distance with fall color within the tracing path it traces.
November 1, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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#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
An oil painting on Yupo that was taped off with artist tape that since been taken off, revealing a magenta outline drawn by a colored pencil before being taped.The paint is thick and mosaic-like with some spots and strokes, appearing to lift off the two-dimensional plane. I took it into Procreate and drew frames: titanium buff and graphite gray.
November 1, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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#halloween
#jack-o-lantern
#crescentmoon
Happy Halloween!
October 31, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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October 28, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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#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.
October 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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#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.
October 26, 2025 at 6:26 PM