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Friday, November 01, 2013

Deer in an Oklahoma Forest

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My husband went camping w a friend and told me about finding this out of the way wilderness campsite where the deer were so tame they just...
Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Cowgirl Dreams

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To Bid This was inspired by a vintage print of a cowgirl.  See her in the background?
Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Provence Country Road

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While in Provence this spring I took a lot of great photos of the area around the convent.  When I returned home I used several of th...
Monday, October 28, 2013

My TCC class project

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For this project we all started out with the same photo of a lovely, costumed woman.  I demonstrate the process that we will all follow to c...

Painting in the great outdoors in Oklahoma

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We had a delightful plein air workshop at the RossMar Ranch this weekend.  I had 10 eager painters with me.  The weather held out for the wh...
Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Lots of paintings on Auction this Week, New ones added daily

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Another week of new auctions on ebay.  I will be putting tons of paintings on auction this week, both large and very small ones.  This one i...
Saturday, September 28, 2013

Pears from my Art Grab Workshop at AHHA

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In Tulsa we have this new, amazing art center called AHHA.  I was invited to do several workshops there throughout the year.  I introduce ad...
Friday, September 27, 2013

Vintage Wild Flowers and Sarah McQuaid concert

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The world comes to our doorstep.  We were honored to have Vintage Wildflowers ( of Tulsa fame ) open for Sarah Mc Quaid ( from the UK ) la...

Lemonade

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I told my students to bring items for a summer still life that would include lemons and lemonade.  We added and subtracted till we came up...
Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Maybe the final version of this painting?

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If you leave any painting long enough in an artist's studio, the chance is that they will find something else that needs fixin'.  ...
Monday, September 23, 2013

Roses

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A little painting of the roses in my garden.  This painting ( and a bunch of others ) on auction this week on ebay. To bid an visit my eb...

House concert this Thursday at our house

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House Concerts Unlimited Presents Sarah McQuaid with opening act Vintage Wildflowers sponsored by   When:  Thursday,...

My Landscape book is now available on Kindle!

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My book is now available on Kindle! http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00F1IXB1G Kindle book on landscape
Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Okies on the Shore 8x10 oil

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Every now and then I pull out my old beach pics and do a fun painting of beach figures.  I usually pump up the colors, break down the plan...
Friday, September 13, 2013

House Concert with Wendy Colona and Jesse Aycock

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you tube video of Wendy at our house concert

Friday the 13th Book Release! Painting the Landscape Outdoors and in the Studio

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It is finally done... my book on painting the landscape.  This is a very affordable way for you to have a Provence, France painting experien...
Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Oklahoma Torndado

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This is a tornado that we saw on our way home from playing in the creek. I have painted it a couple of times and this particular painting is...

A cool photo

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We just happened along this scene in western Oklahoma. I loved how the natural world seemed to be eating up this house... taking back what...
Saturday, September 07, 2013

Gallery openings in Tulsa

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See a very short video of First Friday Art openings, Tulsa I took this last night at one of the gallery openings.

Something Hot

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I love to garden almost as much as I love painting.  Sometimes I get to do both in the same day.  This was from one of those days.  This...
Friday, September 06, 2013

First Friday Art Openings in Tulsa

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I am excited to announce the both of my entries into the TAC annual show got in..... And.... I have 5 pieces in a show at Living Arts that i...

Here is just one page from my new book on Landscape painting.

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Wednesday, September 04, 2013

Painting the Landscape Outdoors and in the Studio with Margaret Aycock

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I am excited to share with you artsy folks that I just finished a book on painting the landscape plein air and in the studio.  If anyone h...
Tuesday, August 20, 2013

First Day of School

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Today was my first day back at school at TCC.  As expected, one half of my class showed up ( A+ for you guys :-) and half did not.  Looks li...
Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Peaches update

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There were tons of peaches in our community garden this year, up until about a week ago when several adult people who don't live in our ...
Friday, August 09, 2013

Louise in the Prairie 16x20 oil

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If you leave a painting too long in the studio, you begin to notice things that you could do to make it a better painting.  I pulled this on...
Monday, August 05, 2013

Daily Studies

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I Love how these little paintings look in groups.  At one time, last year, I had around 12 or 15 of them hanging in my kitchen.  They, of ...
Friday, August 02, 2013

Life IS a Bowl of Cherries... a little reworked.

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I have been painting peaches like crazy as our community garden trees are loaded.  My husband brought home a bag of cherries from the market...
Thursday, August 01, 2013

CHERRIES FRESH FROM THE MARKET

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To Bid
Wednesday, July 31, 2013

August is House Concert Month at our house...

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We have some house cleaning to do to get ready for a month of house concerts.  Our first one is with David Olney and Sergio Webb.  I love th...
Monday, July 29, 2013

Peaches III

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One more in my series of peaches.  I am so glad I discovered the daily painting idea and the use of small canvases.  Something like fresh fr...
Friday, July 26, 2013

Peaches

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I am having so much fun painting these little studies.  They are 6x6 oils.  I am taking a break from a 3rd painting to post these to e...
Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Peaches 6x6 oil

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We have a community garden in our neighborhood and several years ago a bunch of us laid our money down and invested in fruit trees.  They pr...
Saturday, July 20, 2013

Prairie Brook

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We live near the Tall Grass Prairie Preserve ( you know, where the buffalo roam... )  Well we have a good friend and my husband's co hos...
Thursday, July 18, 2013

SOLD! A walk in the Woods 16x20

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steal!  I did this as a demo in my adult class.  I always like to start with a master or a great photo of a beautiful woman  and adjust it a...
Tuesday, July 09, 2013

sunrise on the Vineyard

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This is a painting that I first did on site at a local vineyard.  My class loved it so much that they wanted me to demonstrate the process s...
Friday, July 05, 2013

Peoney Garden

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I have been working on writing a new book, this one, on painting the landscape.  The process had me up in the studio, looking through painti...
Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Provence Rose Garden

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Maybe I am finished with this... I am not sure.  I just reworked some of it and toned down the red door as it was fighting with the red rose...
Monday, June 24, 2013

SOLD! Red Barn

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I was keeping my eyes out for cool stuff to paint near the college so that I might take my students plein aire painting.  I ran across this ...
Sunday, June 23, 2013

Pre Raphaelite ' poem' .... to honor Summer in Oklahoma

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I love taking modern photos, mixing them w old painting, putting the subjects in my neck of the woods and creating a new work in the style o...
Friday, June 21, 2013

varnishing paintings today

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Man, the varnish really pops the darks.  This is fun.  Provence.... Oklahoma... Equal in beauty.

Cowgirl Dreams

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I have finally come to terms with the fact that I live out west.  I grew up on the east cost, near mountains and the ocean.  Now I live in t...
Thursday, June 20, 2013

Gardening

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This is a fun little study that I did on our last week of class.  My students wanted to do a landscape before the semester ended.  I broug...