Friday, October 25, 2024

Oklahoma skies

 

One thing Oklahoma does better than just about any other state is our skies. Since our horizon is often very low, we have a great view of the ever-changing skies, it’s one of my favorite subjects to paint. I might add that if anyone is interested in either of my how to books on, both painting the landscape and painting the still life, they are on Amazon, but they can also be ordered directly from me and I’ll pop them right in the mail and send them out to you. 

The Land

 For the last couple of years, I’ve been working on a series of paintings that originate as a plain air sketch in oil. Several years ago, we purchased some land about an hour drive from our house on a beautiful little river. We named the property, Golden Glenn, but we never call it that. We always just call it “the land.“ Anyway there’s nothing we like better than to take a couple of camp chairs in the fall and just sit in the woods by the river and watch it and listen to it flow. In the summer, we’re in the water, and in the winter, we’re walking the trails through the woods. There’s always something beautiful to paint. The trouble is I end up loving the little paintings too much to sell them although I have done so only with very close friends because I know they’re going to a good home :-) . On another note, I’m also in the process of revising and adding to my original how to book on oil painting the landscape. I was just going to revise it in order to make a hardback copy, but I added a bunch of photographs with assignments in the back, so I think I may revise all of them, the Paperback and the Kindle copies. Although if you order them through me I can send you the extra assignments via email. Of course you can also order them on Amazon as I don’t have the Kindle copy handy, only the paperback.  The book has lots of color photographs and easy to understand instructions.


Thursday, April 04, 2024

SOLD! Dramatic clouds over the Osage Prairie

 


Old master, new spin

 Several years ago, I used this cool painting and decided to put my own spin on it.  I decided to put myself and my two best pals in it as we head to the beach. I have my friend carrying some of my art supplies. I’m the one with the bandanna on.  And of course, when I put these in, they came out exactly backwards, so start at the bottom and work your way up








Wednesday, March 06, 2024

The Beauty Way

 This painting was just accepted into the Liggett studio gallery show featuring all women artists. It is 20 x 22 oil on canvas $900 my painting features, the daughter of one of my neighbors. I am most comfortable in the woods. this painting depicts, that feeling of being in nature for me. 



Thursday, January 25, 2024

Spring Jonquils

A pretty reminder of spring time

visit this painting in ebay




My neighbor's yard

 My neighbor planted his whole front yard in wild flowers.  They are so pretty!  This is on ebay right now but you can also purchase directly from me as always..

https://www.ebay.com/itm/176206202229?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=7VBVMvxQQxS&sssrc=2566055&ssuid=7VBVMvxQQxS&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY



Friday, January 19, 2024

Valentine show in broken arrow

 I will have several pieces in this show, both paintings and Pineneedle baskets



Friday, October 06, 2023

Mapped unmapped to coincide with my painting

 I recently had a group of paintings excepted into the mapped, unmapped show at Liggett Studio in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Scott wrote a corresponding poem to go with it. He will also read a few other poems having to do with the land. 


Monday, August 28, 2023

Upcoming show

 I will have multiple pieces in this show. Some of which are featured in the blog. All plein air sketches from our land.



Sunday, August 27, 2023

A day at the creek

 


OVAC 12x12


 Sending this to Oklahoma City for the annual OVAC fundraiser

Tuesday, August 08, 2023

SOLD!

 


map(un)mapped exhibition

 My piece, Golden Glen (the land ) will be included in an exhibition held at Liggett Studios this September. It will feature a map of our land as an oil painting, surrounded by individual plein air paintings done on site at different places within the 58 acres. It will also feature some of the natural plants growing there. Since I am interested in foraging, it will include a lot of edible plants and where to find them on the land. I’ll include a couple of pieces below that are works in progress, including the map of the land without any labels on it yet. 




Saturday, June 24, 2023

My neighbors pretty yard full of wildflowers



Unless my neighbor buys this painting, it is for sale. It’s a 16 x 20 and you can write me at my name using Margee instead of margaret. At gmail All lowercase at of course you can always check out my listings on eBay. This will be up there today

Yellow orange roses

 Just working on this this afternoon. This is an 8 x 10 oil painting. If interested in purchase you can contact me via email using my name all lowercase letters and Margee instead of margaret  atGmail. I will also put it on eBay just in case anyone is interested in the auction. That’s where I keep most of my paintings these days.



Saturday, June 10, 2023

Sunflowers, 8 x 10 oil and stretched/wrapped canvas

 https://www.ebay.com/itm/394669270079?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=7VBVMvxQQxS&sssrc=2380676&ssuid=7VBVMvxQQxS&widget_ver=artemis&media=



This is a little 8 x 10 still life featuring sunflowers and apples. I have it for sale on eBay or you can purchase directly from me. The auction starts at $150 and I have a buy it now price at $250

Saturday, November 26, 2022

And now for something completely different…



 For whatever reason I have decided to start making Pineneedles baskets. They keep my hands busy and my mind at rest and they’re just plain fun. I’m sure I’ll never get my time back out of these as they take about a day each to make.

I’ll have a bunch of these at the sale at Trinity Episcopal Church Downtown on Sunday, 3 December

Sunday, November 13, 2022

Thursday, October 06, 2022

Canning pears SOLD!

 Canning pears

This is a painting that I did after my mom passed away. She wants describe to me one of her favorite scents and sights as a young girl was opening the cellar door to smell the bushel baskets of apples that were stored there, and to see the shelves lined with all different colors of preserves, and canned vegetables. We had just had a big harvest of pears ourselves and I was in the process of making pear wine and canning pears. I decided that I would run out and pick some flowers that were also blooming in the yard and create a still life in her honor. I just sold the painting a few days ago to a friend from church. I’m glad it went to a good home




Daffodils


 Daffodils

This little painting was completed last year actually and then revisited this last week. I made a few changes so that the daffodils would be the main focal point. I had to areas that were fighting against each other, the daffodils and the flowering almond and so I knocked the almond down a bit.



Friday, July 29, 2022

Cathy’s painting

 My friend from high school asked me to do a painting for her of her favorite place in the world. This is the walkway that leads to her paradise. I used the photograph that she sent to me and one that I took earlier this year at the beach and combined them both for the finish painting.



Sunday, May 22, 2022

Repair

 There was a leak in the gallery and it damaged one of my favorite paintings. I worked today to repair the damage.

These are out of order, but you get the idea.… Good as new!





Thursday, May 05, 2022

A couple of beach sketches $90 each

We just got back from Mexico Beach Florida. This place was struck by hurricanes in 2018 and has still not fully recovered. This time of year the beaches were virtually empty. A perfect time for a little vacation. These are a couple of sketches from that vacation. Both are 6 x 8 and can be purchased for $90 each Via an email message to me using my nickname Margee and my last name and sending it through Gmail. Everything is lowercase