Margaret Aycock Representational Oil Painting in Oklahoma: August 2018

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..

Friday, August 24, 2018

Bouguereau like painting...

In my adult oil painting class, when working on the portrait, we often start with a painting of a long dead master. I like to have my entire class on the same page when teaching drawing or painting skills, both of which are taught during this process. I also like to leave room for each individual artist to have fun and create their own image, rather than an exact copy.
Here are the original photos and my finished painting. Notice the things I changed to make it my own. If you are interested in purchasing the finished painting, feel free to contact me.

Friday, August 17, 2018

Standing Nude

I really enjoy group painting and on occasion have a chance to paint the human figure in a local group of painters. This is a painting from one of those sessions. To bid Click Here This link actually takes you to this painting but also has links within the ebay auction site, to my other art auctions.

Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Spring Creek in Oklahoma

A hundred degree day in Oklahoma sent us to the creek to play. While there, between floating and foraging, I got a chance to just sit beside the peaceful, pristine waters and paint these two paintings. They both started out as sketches and then were completed back home in the studio. I still didn't want to lose the sketchy immediate, feel of the original response so I stopped here.

To purchase either one you may send me an email. $200 each, or take your chances on ebay where they are both on auction beginning at $145 with no reserve. Click here to bid and visit the rest of my painting auctions.

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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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