My book is finished!

The book is written so that children can learn several common plants easily found in places that are allowed to be wild, even in your own back yard or garden.  

I included some of Claire's scrap book pages about plant identification and the recipe that she and Celeste chose to make for their evening meal on the day they foraged for food.  

It also includes vitamin/mineral information that Claire finds on the internet.  

The book encourages parents and children to do more research and of course, to eat the weeds :-)

Here are a few sample pages

Winter Paintings

Time to pull out the winter paintings.  There is something attractive to me about a spot of bright red in an otherwise black and white composition.  Maybe stemming back to seeing the cardinal at the birdfeeder in the snow that gives a hint of life in the otherwise sleeping landscape.  Anyways I love this painting of friend, Melody as she walks her dog in the snow on some property near our home.  It is on auction this week on ebay

The bottom painting done by Scott was accepted into the Philbrook Museum's Festival of Trees and was sold there.  Congrats Scott!
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And just for fun, here are a few other winter paintings

This one was done by my husband/student, Scott Aycock.  It was recently chosen to hang at the Philbrook Museum's Festival of Trees where it was promptly snatched up by a lucky buyer.  Congrats, Scott!  You can see more of his work by clicking the link above and entering my ebay gallery.

http://www.bloomingtwig.com/32824/
Scott's book release is today at the Woody Guthrie Center at 2:00

Children's Book almost finished. Being edited now. CLAIRE GOES FORAGING

Holiday Sale

Happy Holidays everyone.  Any of you all who are in the Tulsa area next week, please feel free to drop by and see me and a few of my artsy friends.

This summer's peonies from a series of peony paintings.  This one is on auction this week through my ebay gallery.
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A Pair of Pears for Christmas

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SOLD! 23 hours left

 

Only 23 hours left on auction

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SOLD! City Sky

In real life the buildings are not crooked.  My camera always does this.
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Save the Date

Baby's first day at the beach

Fine Art America carries prints in all sizes of my work.  You can order it framed, matted, in greeting card form and much more.

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A few paintings in process for a children's book on foraging

Hard Working Americans First Waltz

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My son, Jesse's newest project. 

Gathering Herbs

One of my favorite paintings started out using a master work.  She found her way moving out of the home and into the woods.  I like to imagine her in an old growth forest in Oklahoma gathering herbs and greens for tonight's dinner.  She is on auction for the next 12 hours on ebay
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Working on the new children's book

Several paintings in progress for the new children's book

Jesse opens for Marc Ford at the Colony

http://youtu.be/BqJTu2V4Za8

Peonies

One small painting from my Peony series.
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Honey Crisps

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Master inspired

When I  teach painting I often  use a master as a jumping off point so we can all be on the same page for much of the process and still allow the students some creative elbow room.  I have always loved foraging and continue to learn more.  This painting started out as a pre raphaelite woman in a cathedral and ended up in the woods gathering herbs and greens.
She is on auction this week on my ebay site
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Get Ispirato! An in-car concert with Jesse Aycock

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