Ozark Waterfall oil painting

On a recent trip to Arkansas we were unable to find time to sketch but did find time to take some great photos.  This painting was started as a class demonstration and completed at home and is now for sale on Ebay.  Click here to visit my Ebay Gallery

Tulsa Folks, I am getting ready for the annual Art in the Square at Utica Square this Saturday, Oct 1 See you there in front of Star Bucks and Pendeltons

My fingers are crossed for a warm and sunny day this Saturday.  I always look forward to actually meeting my buyers and hanging out with several of my artsy friends in this beautiful, upscale shopping area in Tulsa.  Hope to see some of you this weekend.

SOLD! A talk before rehearsal

Earlier this year I had an opportunity to sketch, photograph the ballet dancers as they rehearsed for their opening season. I completed several paintings of those sessions. This one was my favorite. In this painting I was drawn to the curve of this dancer's neck and head as she and her companions put on their slippers and chatted before rehearsal. I just sold this to a buyer from the Netherlands. Yippie!

Oklahoma Revue in Amsterdam

Here is a little video of my son, Jesse and several other Oklahoma musicians who are featured on this live interview/performance in Amsterdam.  If you fast forward to just shy of middle, you will see my son, Jesse Aycock's performance and interview.
http://members.home.nl/crossroadsradio/webradio.htm

Demo at Alpha Rho Tau meeting in Tulsa

I was invited to speak at the September mtg of Alpha Rho Tau which is a long standing art organization in Tulsa.  Here is the demo that I did that evening.  I spent a moment or two on it at home to finish it up.  Here it is on Ebay for you to bid on.  Ebay Gallery

Tomorrow Evening Alpha Rho Tau

Monday, Sept 19th I will be giving a talk and demo to the Alpha Rho Tau.   The meeting starts at 6:30 pm.at the Hardesty Library in South Tulsa, located on E. 93rd Street and Memorial Drive  in the Frossard Auditorium located in the first room on your left as you enter the building,  I will be doing a little 6x6 painting and talk about the process of creating a still life in oil.  I will have books, DVDs, and a few paintings for sale on that evening.

Resonance Fundraiser Today

See my work and the work of more than 40 area artists at the Art Shuffle Art Sale and Studio Tour on September 18th, from 1-5 pm. A portion of each piece sold will benefit Tulsa’s Resonance Center for Women. Advance tickets are $5.00, $10.00 at the door. Go to www.resonancetulsa.org for more information and to purchase your tickets now! Both Scott and I have paintings on display for sale at Resonance on Elwood today.

SOLD ! Who says okra isn't pretty?

I picked a bunch of okra the other day and put them in this bowl to use later and as often happens, the sun ran across them sitting on my counter and I thought, " that sure is pretty." and every now and then it works out that I notice these things AND have time to grab a brush and paint and commit them to canvas.  Here is my little painting of okra.  It is on auction on ebay starting at $33 with no reserve.  If it doesn't have any bids yet and you wish to purchase directly from me, get in touch and I will sell it for $99, otherwise enjoy the auction!
To Bid and visit my Ebay gallery CLICK HERE

My husband, Scott performing original songs

We had a guest from the east coast staying at our airbnb a month ago.  He was here doing research on the Native American influence on Oklahoma's music.  This is a video series he created with my husband with a few of his recent creations.
Scott Aycock performing original songs

Part 2

Part 3 with our guest playing lead on some of the songs

SOLD! Prairie Sky

Interveiw with Dusted Magazine with my youngest son, Dylan

dusted

Dylan Golden Aycock — Church Of Level Track (Scissor Tail Records)

Dylan Golden Aycock is part of the new generation of guitar pickers young enough to first have been influenced by early volumes of Tompkins Square Records’ Imaginational Anthem series and then to be anthologized on a later one. The Oklahoma native is on Volume 7, should you feel like looking, playing an early version of “Red Bud Valley,” which sits in the middle of the B-side of the LP under consideration here.  

Aycock’s composing on Church Of Level Track offers evidence that he’s well studied in a lineage of American Primitive pickers that stretches back decades before he was born. “Lord It Over” puts it right out there by opening with a double-thumbed bass line right out of John Fahey’s bag of tricks. But this quotation is merely an opening gambit, and one that is quickly followed by moves that prove Aycock is no parrot but a bird with his own song to sing. The steel guitar that sails in over his picking evokes first the bucolic playfulness of Jim O’Rourke’s Bad Timing and then keeps going back into the deep back shelves of country-rock lyricism. At the same time a virtual band (Aycock plays everything on the track and nearly everything on the LP) sets up a subtle undertow of entropic drumming and echo-laden feedback. 

It’s simultaneously psychedelic enough to be illegal and as clear-eyed as an early riser’s first glimpse of the sunrise coming over the horizon, and it sets the tone for the six instrumentals that follow. Aycock’s music can be woozy, but it is also very focused on evoking certain emotions and images. Familiar acoustic patterns pull for memories you think you should have, even if you know you don’t. Gamboling rhythms bring to mind the blurry grass you blow past on two-lane highways and the attendant thrill of putting your foot down on said road because you’re pretty sure no one’s laid a speed trap on this route for years. 

And on the final track, “Scratch The Chisel,” near-New Age synths compete with dissonantly strummed guitars in a maelstrom of conflicting sonic information that instigates a confused state that can only be exited by hitching your wagon to one final, fingerpicked sprint. Fahey took you through the back corners of his twisted mind; Robbie Basho tried to show you a world much better than one humans have ever allowed themselves to have; Glenn Jones uses guitar strings to evoke the human ties that bond and loosen. It remains to be seen just where Aycock is going to take us, but this record feels like it was made by a man with a well-drawn map in his head. 

Bill Meyer