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Saturday, March 29, 2014

Dead Nettle, Dandelion, Lettuce, Arugala Salad. First of the season

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Celebrating the seasons first few salads and fresh mint tea.  Salad with lettuce grown in a cold frame over winter, dandelion greens, dead n...

Vintage Pitcher and Egg

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I had a new student last week and rather than scare her away with a complicated still life, I set up a very doable still life for her while ...
Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Tango in Tulsa

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This is one of my favorite paintings, maybe because I love the dance... Anyways it is on auction this week on ebay.. hate to let it go but...
Saturday, March 22, 2014

a penny auction!

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Every now and then I take a sketch and start an auction at a penny.  It brings people into my ebay gallery and  hopefully will get them shop...
Friday, March 21, 2014

Tornado

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One of my favorite subjects to paint is the Oklahoma sky.  You can't paint Oklahoma skies forever without including at least one tornado...
Thursday, March 20, 2014

In the beginning....

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Spring Garden I have left over lettuce from the fall, Kale, Arrugala, Spinach, Onion, Garlic, too.  In my perennial garden I see Salisify, ...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Red Roses on Terracotta

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This painting was painted after picking some roses out in the back yard and putting them on the kitchen table.  Normally I wouldn't th...
Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Cowboys and Indians

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Cowboys and Indian Toys fight it out in this still life.  My students wanted to kill me after this painting.  I set this up for my first y...
Saturday, March 08, 2014

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My friend, Louise had made me 2 birthday cakes in my lifetime and on both times they were so pretty ( and delicious ) that I thought I would...
Sunday, March 02, 2014

Some great music to listen to while you paint

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My son, Dylan is owner of Scissor tail Records here in Tulsa.  Although his home base is here, his artists hail from around the world as do ...

Honoring our grandmothers

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Several years ago I lead a weekend painting workshop at Gilcrease Museum.  What fun I had going through the shareable archives there and ha...
Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Tango

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What do you do when you inherit grandma's dancing shoes?  Well if you have just jumped into learning the Tango, and you are a painter,...
Tuesday, February 25, 2014

a cool video that features the music of my son, Dylan

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http://vimeo.com/87413948
Monday, February 24, 2014

Jesse Aycock CD release March 7 Fassler Hall, Tulsa, OK, March 8th in Little Rock, AR

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Watch the Currentland video Here

Purple Ribbon and Silver Coffee Pot

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If you want a little peek into my classroom, you can find it in the silver coffee pot :-).  The class groaned when they saw this still life,...
Sunday, February 23, 2014

6x6 vineyard sketch

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I actually painted the first one of these paintings on site very early in the morning at an Oklahoma Vineyard.  What a delightful day.  I pa...
Saturday, February 22, 2014

Red Roses against a Terracotta Wall

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I had picked these roses from the garden and liked the effect of seeing them against my terracotta wall.  I was surprised that I liked it si...
Friday, February 14, 2014

A new batch of ACEO paintings on auction

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At the request of one of my ebay art collectors, I started painting these little ACEO artist trading cards.  What a great idea for an afford...
Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Green Pears on Red and White Striped Cloth 6x6 oil

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This is one among many daily and larger paintings on auction this week through my ebay gallery/auction site.  This began as a class project....
Monday, February 10, 2014

Garden " Bed"

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Just an update.  I made this from an actual bed spring wooden form last summer.  The lettuce that I planted a month ago is coming right alon...

Last Night's Writing Theme, " Night sounds"

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Last night Scott and I were sitting out back by the fire and had a bit of time before the Beatles retrospective was coming on the TV.  We de...
Monday, February 03, 2014

Avocado 6x6 oil on canvas

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To Bid

Lucky Penny Dolls to Benifit Tulsa Arts and Humanities Council

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A portion of the proceeds from the Lucky Penny Doll sales goes to support the work of Tulsa's Arts and Humanities Council.  To place y...
Tuesday, January 28, 2014

New Stairs in an Old House

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We, after 20 years or so, have finally gotten around to repairing ( replacing ) the main staircase in our house.  My carpenter opened a cavi...

New Garden Bed Prep

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You can't paint fresh fruit and veggies unless you can grow or buy them.... I prefer to grow them.  This bed has been a thorn in my side...
Sunday, January 26, 2014

Jesse's New Album just got released!

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click here to watch a short video on the making of the album here is a link to Jesse's website where you can purchase the CD ( ama...
Friday, January 24, 2014

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I had a few people that were going to be absent from my class the other day so I changed the assignment to " bring a troubled painting ...
Monday, January 20, 2014

ACEO art trading cards

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To bid on one of these little #ACEO sky paintings click here What fun!  The bidding starts at $23 with free shipping.  I sign and date the ...
Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Avocado 6x6 Original Oil

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To Bid
Saturday, January 11, 2014

Air bnb moves to the Aycock Home and Studio

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For years we host traveling musicians in our home for free when they do a house concert with us so we are kind of used to having strangers (...
Friday, January 10, 2014

Paleo Crackers/ pizza crust by Me... as if I have nothing else to do today!

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I have been perfecting this cracker/bread/pizza crust for a few months.  And when I say " perfecting," you will see by my measurem...

Another Pre Raphaelite Girl... She's back on the auction block

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I started this last semester while my students were working independently.  I think I finished it the other day... one never knows for sure....
Tuesday, January 07, 2014

Pre Raphaelite Girl with Cat by Margaret Aycock SOLD!

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This was a really fun assignment that I gave to my students and of course, not wanting them to be the only ones having all the fun..... I pa...