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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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Ron McGaughey @ronjons.bsky.social · 17h

Thanks!

Ron McGaughey @ronjons.bsky.social · 17h

Began the painting by pushing off of fluorescent dots. Because why not

Ron McGaughey @ronjons.bsky.social · 17h

Thanks for the repost!

Ron McGaughey @ronjons.bsky.social · 17h

Appreciate the repost!

Ron McGaughey @ronjons.bsky.social · 1d

#art#blueskyart
#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.

Ron McGaughey @ronjons.bsky.social · 3d

#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.

Ron McGaughey @ronjons.bsky.social · 3d

#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.

Ron McGaughey @ronjons.bsky.social · 4d

#halloween
#jack-o-lantern
#crescentmoon
Happy Halloween!

Ron McGaughey @ronjons.bsky.social · 6d

Excellent greens! Wow

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Ron McGaughey @ronjons.bsky.social · 8d

Lay in

Ron McGaughey @ronjons.bsky.social · 8d

#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 · 9d

#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 · 9d

#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 · 10d

#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 · 10d

#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 · 11d

Amazing auroras in Fairbanks, Alaska

Ron McGaughey @ronjons.bsky.social · 16d

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.