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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.

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#kolk#parkinglot
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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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#DonPaulDraw
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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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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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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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#jack-o-lantern
#crescentmoon
Happy Halloween!
October 31, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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#LowerGrandCoulee
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#umatillarock
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#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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#oilpainting#landscape
#LowerGrandCoulee
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#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
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#goldcolored

Aureate
oil on board
16” x 20”
Oct 2025
Oil, painting, landscape of basalt with a bright golden sky.
October 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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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.
October 25, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Lith
oil on board
9” x 12”
Oct 2025
Small oil painting of basalt landscape with lake in foreground.
October 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Reposted by Ron McGaughey
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Amazing auroras in Fairbanks, Alaska
October 24, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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#coulee#blueskyart
#art#pleinair#basalt#rock

October morning,
painting in the
Lower Grand Coulee.
October 20, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Reposted by Ron McGaughey
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Tiny Chelan WA is in the house!!!! #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Taking inventory of paint colors in anticipation of a paint outing.
Who gets to go out,
who has to stay home?
October 12, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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“HER” the-Sun,
Photo taken
this summer,
in her kitchen.
Yes, she’s a
good cook.
October 11, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Meeting others
with marvelous
ways to travel.
October 11, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Regular 10-cent
human hairnet.
Invisible action,
self-conforming.
October 11, 2025 at 9:39 PM