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Friday, May 29, 2015

Thoughts on gardening on the wild side

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I was out in the garden yesterday and picked lettuce and some spinach.  I noticed purslane growing in with the basil, sorrel and lambsquar...
Saturday, May 23, 2015

Testing the waters

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Memories... Everything about the beach makes me feel good.  Some of my favorite years as a child, as a teen, as a mom and now.... still ma...
Friday, May 22, 2015

Mulberry Tree

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One more day in the tops of the trees and I think it is finished.  I love my job.  Who else gets to hang out in the tops of the trees all...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

A work of art from the garden

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Revisiting a painting from this time last year

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I decided not to paint the peonies this year and just pick them and enjoy them.  I do love to paint them but this year put my energies into ...
Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Mulberry Tree

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Sometimes the question pops up... " Should I pick it, or should I paint it?"  That was the case the other day as I climbed the ste...
Thursday, May 14, 2015

Canoeing the Boundry Waters

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9x11 oil on canvas
Saturday, May 09, 2015

Mayfest Invitational

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I am excited to be invited again to participate in the Mayfest International Invitational show this year.  It opens Wednesday night ( ticket...

To Garden or to Paint? That is the question.

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I love Google.  I googled a recipe for honeysuckle jelly and decided to add a few rose petals for good measure and color.  I thought...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015

The Journey

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A lot of people think that when they see a painting on the wall that the artist had a specific idea of how it should look in the end and tha...
Friday, April 17, 2015

To Garden.... or To Paint.... or Both!

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This week I am doing a lot of both. To start off with the harvest of lots of dandelion and redbud blossoms a few weeks ago is going to pay o...
Wednesday, April 08, 2015

a short painting demo

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I had forgotten about this until someone commented on it today.  A pretty good little demo if I do say so myself.  It is me painting one lit...
Tuesday, April 07, 2015

Oklahoma Artists League Show

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This Thursday, April 9th at the Circle Cinema in Tulsa, OK opening 5:30-8:00 Those of you in the area, please stop by. It will be up...

Portraits and Sky Oil Paintings

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 I thought I would revisit a few paintings that were used as an excuse to paint both a portrait and a wild and interesting sky.  We have won...
Friday, April 03, 2015

Playing in the Creek

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This is a painting of my great nieces playing on Summer vacation at one of our favorite haunts. To Bid
Tuesday, March 31, 2015

My experiment in automatic watering system

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I put a little how to video on you tube about the creation of this system.  It was very easy to do and by trial and error, I finally got it ...
Friday, March 27, 2015

Just an interesting, no flour recipe for great crackers that I made up

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Sorry that this is the kind of recipe that calls for a pinch of this and a handful of that but it is the best I can do... I made somethi...
Friday, March 20, 2015

Kirsten

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To Bid Always love a chance to work with a live model.
Wednesday, March 04, 2015

Gathering Spring Greens

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I was listing some paintings on Ebay today and ran across one of my favorites.  This painting was inspired by a walk in an ancient forest in...
Monday, February 23, 2015

Cowgirls

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I was just revisiting some older pieces and decided to post this one on ebay this week for auction. To Bid
Friday, February 06, 2015

My son, Dylan got a nice write up in No Depression Magazine

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This is great music to listen to while you paint.  It is soothing yet surprising.  Unexpected twists and turns. http://nodepression.com/alb...
Tuesday, February 03, 2015

Pre Raphaelite Girl with Cat

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I was looking through some old painting photos and came across this painting which I did as a demo in my adult painting class.  I really lik...

A walk in the woods

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To Bid To Claire Goes Foraging children's book, written and illustrated by Margaret Aycock If you leave a painting with an artist lo...
Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Pink Peonies

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To Bid This is one among many recent paintings that are on auction this week.  Clicking above takes you to this painting where there will...
Tuesday, January 13, 2015

FREE DOWNLOAD TODAY CLAIRE GOES FORAGING

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I just finished publishing a little children's book on foraging.  All throughout the book are original oil paintings.  I borrowed my gre...
Tuesday, January 06, 2015

Kindle Sales of Claire Goes Foraging FREE this week beginning 1/7/15

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So you have an opportunity to read my book in advance of buying it for your child, I have made it available for free this week for Kindle...
Thursday, January 01, 2015

Happy New Year... This is my son, Dylan Aycock

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https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10154985696500640
Tuesday, December 30, 2014

My book is finished!

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The book is written so that children can learn several common plants easily found in places that are allowed to be wild, even in your own ...
Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Winter Paintings

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Time to pull out the winter paintings.  There is something attractive to me about a spot of bright red in an otherwise black and white compo...
Saturday, December 13, 2014

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http://www.bloomingtwig.com/32824/ Scott's book release is today at the Woody Guthrie Center at 2:00
Friday, December 12, 2014

Children's Book almost finished. Being edited now. CLAIRE GOES FORAGING

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