Margaret Aycock Representational Oil Painting in Oklahoma

Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Doing what we do best.

Doing what we do best... Oklahoma, with its miles of prairie land also sports the very best skies in the world. here are just a few of the recent sky paintings that have sold this year. ( the second one from the bottom is more recent and is for sale on ebay along with several other landscape paintings where the sky is the main player.) To visit my ebay gallery, CLICK HERE.

Thursday, January 19, 2017

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Every now and then I make it over to the Gilcrease, Zarrow Center's Saturday sketch time. This was painted during one of those sessions. Peaceful sublime....

Tulsa's 'The Artery'

I am happy to say that I will have my work at Tulsa's newest gallery located in downtown Tulsa, The Artery. It is right in the hub of where everything is happening in downtown, in the Blue Dome District. We had a soft opening the other night w a major one coming in March. you can see some of my paintings in the background and some of my family's books, cds and my little prints in the foreground. This is going to be a great space for art and music. I am looking forward to working with them.

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

SOLD! but prints still available in all sizes for King of the Prairie

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Step by Step Still Life

Notice, no detail till nearly finished. Start with blocking in main color areas, make sure to cover every inch of the canvas with something. Also notice you don't have to paint everything in in perfect detail. We paint how the eye sees.... When you are looking at one specific thing, everything else looses its detail. I like to pick an area or two where I paint a flower or flowers in well and let the viewer make up the rest with their own eyes. If I paint one cherry blossom well, the viewer now knows that all those other white, flowery things are cherry blossoms, for example.

Painting the Impressionist Still Life with Margaret Aycock

"Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us. It is not just in some; it is in everyone. And, as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others." - Marianne Williamson from "Reflections on a Course in Miracles" My hope is that my painting will be that shining light.

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