Margaret Aycock Representational Oil Painting in Oklahoma: September 2011

Welcome to my blog where I post recent photos of my work and journal about my life as an artist. I live and work in Tulsa Oklahoma. It is from my early life in the mountains that I developed a love of the natural world which now includes vast prairies and endless skies. To contact me about a purchase all in lowercase letters you can write me at margee And then my last name @Gmail. Opening the web version of this blog gives the opportunity to purchase any of my how to books/videos, etc..

Monday, September 19, 2011

SOLD My Secret Garden

Sometimes you need only go as far as your own back yard to find subject matter for your paining. This painting was done when the roses were in full bloom and the cool shadows from the garage apartment stretched across my back yard. The shadows only made the sunlit roses look brilliant. Anyways here is the painting I did of my own little " Secret Garden."
To bid on this painting in my ebay auction today click here

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Golden Dusk 6x6 oil on canvas

When ever I have a big auction on ebay, I like to put a few surprises out there. Apparently no one found a couple of my surprises yet as this one is priced at $15 to start w no reserve and there are no bids yet. It is a 6x6 oil on canvas painted at the grounds at Gilcrease Museum at dusk. There are a few other daily paintings at even lower starting bids. See if you can find them. If you want to bid on this one and have access to my ebay gallery, click here I have about 80 paintings on auction this week.

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Queen Anne's Lace at the Foot Hills of the Blue Ridge Mountians 16x20

This is a painting that I did from sketches and photos taken during our trip to visit my sister in North Carolina this summer. I actually did this as a demo for my adult painting class and included a more dramatic sky. I have it listed on ebay this week. If you wish to bid, click here to visit my ebay auction site where I have a lot of daily paintings on auction this week. A lot of small 6x6 paintings that look great in groups.

Friday, September 02, 2011

SOLD Pretty in Pink 8x8 oil

I used to belong to a portrait group before I started my job as a painting teacher. I loved the group. We would hire a model, chip in $3 each and have a finished painting after 3 hours. This painting started out as a 16x20 and got whittled down to this size as given only 3 hours to finish a portrait is one thing, but a figure, is a whole different ball game. I had a pretty decent figure but it had some problems and obviously, I got tired of dealing with the problems and cropped it down to the place where there were no problems. It is on my ebay auction this week for a mere $35 bid! To bid, click here

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Art Student Supply List

Supplies are as follows: Oil Paints: Specifically Windsor Newton brand Winton 200 ML size. Student grade is preferable and if it says ‘hue’ after the color that is fine, and preferable too; Alizarin Crimson, Cad. Red, Cad. Orange, Cad. Yellow Light, Yellow Ochre, Cerulean Blue, Sap Green, Ultramarine Blue, Titanium white, Burnt Sienna.

Assortment of boar bristle brushes from ¼” to 1: (feel free to get the cheap ones,) I like filberts but flats are ok too.

canvas : depends on what we are painting. Usually no larger than 16x20

Pallet; either purchase large pallet or 12 x 16 cardboard cover with freezer paper purchase Reynolds freezer paper in the grocery store where plastic wraps, foil are found.

A pallet box is optional but saves money in the long run.

I will supply easel, spirits, rags

Step by Step Still Life

Notice, no detail till nearly finished. Start with blocking in main color areas, make sure to cover every inch of the canvas with something. Also notice you don't have to paint everything in in perfect detail. We paint how the eye sees.... When you are looking at one specific thing, everything else looses its detail. I like to pick an area or two where I paint a flower or flowers in well and let the viewer make up the rest with their own eyes. If I paint one cherry blossom well, the viewer now knows that all those other white, flowery things are cherry blossoms, for example.

Painting the Impressionist Still Life with Margaret Aycock

"Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us. It is not just in some; it is in everyone. And, as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others." - Marianne Williamson from "Reflections on a Course in Miracles" My hope is that my painting will be that shining light.

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