Margaret Aycock Representational Oil Painting in Oklahoma: July 2016

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..

Saturday, July 23, 2016

This is a class project. Scroll down and you can see my class working on " our girl." Everyone got a chance to choose a background, hair style and really anything else. We started with a photo of a pretty young woman and added and subtracted till we each got what we wanted. I like to use a photo as a jumping off point for my students so that I can teach them a method to create a portrait. This one was done in the style of the old masters. It is on Ebay auction this week. To check out my auction click here.

Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Dylan Golden Aycock - Church of Level Track (Album Trailer)

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Saturday, July 09, 2016

SOLD! NUDE FEMALE BATHERS

Spring Creek is one of my favorite places to visit. I love to go with a good book or two, lots of snacks, a float, and a blank canvas or two. Last week I was looking for a master work to jump start my class and came across a lovely painting by the artist Andres Zorn. I borrowed one of his figures, changed her up a bit, threw in one of my favorite models and created a couple other bathers. The next best thing to being there is painting from sketches and photos of the peaceful creek. Anyways this one is headed off to Oklahoma City for a fundraiser unless it sells first on Ebay.

To Bid

Friday, July 08, 2016

SOLD! Prairie Sky

Nude Bathers at Spring Creek with a nod to Zorn

I have been playing with an idea today. I really liked this painting by Andres Zorn and decided to borrow a figure from him and change it a little and add a few of my own from sessions with a model. Not quite finished but enjoying the process and playing with the images.

Wednesday, July 06, 2016

SOLD! Lemons and Plums

Another cool painting of fresh picked fruit. This one and its sister are on my ebay auction this week.
To visit this in my ebay gallery, 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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