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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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President Barack Obama appreciation post.
President Barack Obama is leaning to the side and hugging Senator Patty Murray. People are looking on.
February 6, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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#art#blueskyart#winter
#snow#moon#LakeChelan
#oilpainting#ChelanButte

Winter Butte and Moon

oil on canvas
10” x 36”
2/7/26
Panoramic format of a mountain butte next to a lake with a moon 🌕 in a pink and blue sky.
February 7, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Reposted by Ron McGaughey
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Moon
February 5, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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#art#blueskyart#relection
#4thofJulyMountain#spring
#oilpainting#landscape

Amplification by shortstopping,
not petting down. Best strokes end early, let eyes follow thru to close the hands of the painting.

Considering the Reflection of
4th of July Mt. in Dry Lake
oil on canvas
36” x 40”
2/2/26
Oil painting of a waved shaped mountain in the spring-time with a reflection in a lake in the foreground. You can see apple 🍎 orchards and roads.
February 2, 2026 at 10:23 PM
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#caturday#catnap#dog#cat

Synchronized napping.

Happy CATURDAY!
A photograph of a dog and a cat napping on a couch
January 31, 2026 at 2:22 PM
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#photo#ice#winter#pattern

Beauty everywhere!

(Frozen pattern on
my car window.)
Ice pattern on car window seen from outside the car
January 28, 2026 at 8:23 PM
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#art#blueskyart#chelanbutte
#lakechelan#spring
#oilpainting#landscape

Chelan Butte Road
with Lake Chelan
oil on canvas
20” x 16”
1/26/26
Oil painting of a springtime butte with a lake behind. A road is visible coming up the mountain and going down the other side. A passenger ferry boat can be seen as a dot in the lower portion of the lake. An isthmus and small town is visible in the distance.
January 26, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Reposted by Ron McGaughey
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These are the icy mountains of Pluto. It took 9 years to get these magnificent images… and 4.8 billion kilometers.
January 18, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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#art#blueskyart#deeplake
#Sunlakes#scablands
#oilpainting#landscape
#Lowergrandcoulee
#greatflood#view

Scablands Eyeshot
oil on canvas
20” x 16”
1/18/26
Oil painting of lake surrounded by basalt cliffs with a “broken” lake reflection
January 18, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Reposted by Ron McGaughey
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Sergiu Ciochina (b. 2001 in Moldova, based in Paris)
"Parc de Sceaux," 2026
Oil on canvas
73 x 92 cm
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
January 18, 2026 at 3:33 AM
Reposted by Ron McGaughey
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Scrub Sunset ~ 14x16 Oil/Panel/Palette Knife
January 18, 2026 at 11:34 AM
Reposted by Ron McGaughey
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Summer sunset, Maine. Plein air watercolor.

#pleinairwatercolor #maine #sunset #watercolor
January 17, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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#art#blueskyart#deeplake
#Sunlakes#DonPaulDraw
#oilpainting#landscape
#Lowergrandcoulee
#promunturium

Promunturium
(Looking S.E
towards Don
Paul Draw)
oil on canvas
16” x 20”
1/17/26
An oil painting of a scablands landscape with a jutting cliff over an emerald colored lake.
January 18, 2026 at 1:47 AM
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#art#blueskyart#underpainting
#oilpainting#landscape
#LakeChelan#Chelanbutte
#snowfall#january#skiff
#winter

Chelan Butte
With a Skiff
oil on canvas
WIP
12” x 36”
1/17/26

Couldn’t wait. to get back to it.
A four hour stint in
the middle of
the night
got me
this…
2nd session of a landscape oil painted in the studio.
January 17, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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#art#blueskyart#underpainting
#oilpainting#landscape
#LakeChelan#Chelanbutte
#snowfall#january#skiff
#winter

Chelan Butte
With a Skiff
oil on canvas
WIP
12” x 36”
1/16/26

Don’t ever remember
doing a lay- in this quickly!

Less than hour for this…

A strong start because
of time restraints.
Beginning of an oil painting. A panorama of a butte with snow coming partway down. In the middle ground is a town to the left and a lake to the right. In the foreground is a dark hill to the left and a light colored hill to the right. The early morning sky is blue.
January 17, 2026 at 3:51 AM
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#art#blueskyart#basalt
#oilpainting#landscape
#LowerGrandCoulee#rock
#scabland#shrub-steppe
#Deeplake#reflection
#view#water#lake

Specular Prospect
at Deep Lake
oil on canvas
16” x 20”
1/11/26
A vertical oil painting of a morning scablands image, a specular prospect, a lake seen from the high notch of coulee walls.
January 11, 2026 at 11:44 PM
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#art#blueskyart#basalt
#oilpainting#landscape
#LowerGrandCoulee#rock
#scabland#shrub-steppe
#rockfall#smoke

Coulee Rockfall
oil on canvas
16” x 20”
1/10/26
Oil painting of a shrub-steppe landscape showing a large talus slope and smoke on the horizon.
January 10, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Reposted by Ron McGaughey
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Quilomene Bay, Quilomene Wildlife Area from the Babcock Bench area, WA
#shrubsteppe #columbiariver #pnw
#eastslopes #leewardside
January 9, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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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
Reposted by Ron McGaughey
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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