Gathering Herbs

Gathering Herbs:  This painting began, as many of mine do, from a class demonstration.  We started with a master work and then changed scenery, hair styles, clothing etc.  I think she was originally standing in a chapel or some sort of fancy interior and she wasn't holding a basket of herbs.  She found a nice place above my mantle for a long time, but as many of my paintings, she is for sale.  If you would like to bid on her or just visit my ebay gallery, CLICK HERE 

Patagonia Icy Hot oil painting

Cool off on a hot summer day!  This is a scene that my nephew took a photo of when he was learning how to lead groups into the wild.  This was a rarely seen vista from an ancient glacier in Patagonia.

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Tulsa County Medical Society Foundation Fundraiser

This month I had the honor of being asked to participate in Art Rx which helps those who can't afford their medical care or medications, get them.  What a great organization.  Anyways at the end of the evening they had sold both of my pieces.  Thanks to the doctors who purchased them for their support of both me, and the Tulsa County Medical Society Foundation.

This is a class project.  Scroll down and you can see my class working on " our girl."  Everyone got a chance to choose a background, hair style and really anything else.  We started with a photo of a pretty young woman and added and subtracted till we each got what we wanted.  I like to use a photo as a jumping off point for my students so that I can teach them a method to create a portrait.  This one was done in the style of the old masters.  It is on Ebay auction this week.  To check out my auction click here.

Dylan Golden Aycock - Church of Level Track (Album Trailer)

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SOLD! NUDE FEMALE BATHERS

Spring Creek is one of my favorite places to visit.  I love to go with a good book or two, lots of snacks, a float, and a blank canvas or two.  Last week I was looking for a master work to jump start my class and came across a lovely painting by the artist Andres Zorn.  I borrowed one of his figures, changed her up a bit, threw in one of my favorite models and created a couple other bathers.  The next best thing to being there is painting from sketches and photos of the peaceful creek.  Anyways this one is headed off to Oklahoma City for a fundraiser unless it sells first on Ebay. 

To Bid

SOLD! Prairie Sky

Nude Bathers at Spring Creek with a nod to Zorn

I have been playing with an idea today.  I really liked this painting by Andres Zorn and decided to borrow a figure from him and change it a little and add a few of my own from sessions with a model.  Not quite finished but enjoying the process and playing with the images.

SOLD! Lemons and Plums

Another cool painting of fresh picked fruit.  This one and its sister are on my ebay auction this week.
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The process

See how pretty this is?  Doesn't it beg to be painted?

       

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Instead of making pies

This morning I noticed the bowl of lemons glowing in a red bowl at my window sill and thought, " I need to paint those."  And then I thought, " Hmm I wonder if there are still any plums and blackberries growing in the community garden because another pie sure sounds good to me."  There were a lot of fallen, over ripe plums on the ground and plenty in the tree, and tons of blackberries and even a few pears so I gathered them up, picked some poke on the trail  and brought everything home and dumped them out on the counter.  Again, I thought, " they look so pretty there with the muted light coming in through the east window."  So of course, before I could turn them into a pie, they had to be painted.
Here's the result: