Margaret Aycock Representational Oil Painting in Oklahoma: Osage Prairie painting

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Monday, August 10, 2026

Some other paintings that were also in the show, some sold and some unsold. In contemplation of earth, sky, and water.

Many of these paintings are featured in the little book that accompanied the show by the same name.The first one is called welcome to Oklahoma. It’s a relatively large and was a painting that was chosen to represent Oklahoma in the national Oklahoma paints the Parks exhibit years ago. There’s a painting of a pretty brooke in Southern Oklahoma An abandoned mansion in Hulbert Oklahoma. Glad I took the time to take some photographs as this year. It is no more. The others are paintings done from sketches on site at Golden Glen, featuring double Spring creek in Cherokee County.

A few more paintings that sold at my recent show

A painting from the Osage Prairie with billowing clouds, A painting of the entrance to Golden Glen, and Cherokee County, And a painting of three girls at Swannanoa, at a wedding of some friends and Cherokee County. Little Wood Nymphs. I love how their moms let them wear their dresses and take off their shoes so that they could play in the woods.

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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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Monday, August 10, 2026

Some other paintings that were also in the show, some sold and some unsold. In contemplation of earth, sky, and water.

A few more paintings that sold at my recent show