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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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Comics in the Festive Age

@comicsinthega.bsky.social

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.

The first appearance of Popeye in Thimble Theatre

A title card from the Fleischer Popeye cartoons

December 8, 2025 at 11:16 AM

Ron McGaughey

@ronjons.bsky.social

#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

Ron McGaughey

@ronjons.bsky.social

#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

Ron McGaughey

@ronjons.bsky.social

#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

Ron McGaughey

@ronjons.bsky.social

#Caturday#cat#tomcat#dreaming

“Boyfriend”dreaming
about tomorrow being
Caturday
and all that.

November 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM

Reposted by Ron McGaughey

JL Kaufmann

@jlkaufmann.bsky.social

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

Ron McGaughey

@ronjons.bsky.social

#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

Ron McGaughey

@ronjons.bsky.social

#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

Ron McGaughey

@ronjons.bsky.social

#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.

November 4, 2025 at 2:50 AM

Ron McGaughey

@ronjons.bsky.social

#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

Ron McGaughey

@ronjons.bsky.social

#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