Margaret Aycock Representational Oil Painting in Oklahoma

Friday, October 27, 2017

one of my favorite Still Life paintings from this year

To Bid CLICK HERE or contact me. Starting bid is $499 on ebay or purchase directly from me for the starting bid price this week.

Friday, October 13, 2017

Sunset on the Prairie

To bid on this painting... starting bid $133 click here This will also take you to my ebay gallery where you can see a lot of my gallery quality paintings along with these demos and studies.

Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Studies/Demos on sale for under $20 this week

Just for fun and to help clear out the ole' studio I put quite a few paintings on auction sale for under a $20 start price w no reserve. I have also reduced multiple others. Of course I always have my gallery open on ebay where you can find just the right full price ( yet still much lower than physical galleries ) painting for over the mantle ;-) Click here to visit one of the studies that is on sale this week.

Friday, October 06, 2017

Art in the Square at Utica Square

Tomorrow morning at 9:00 I will be set up in front of Pendeltons and Starbucks at Utica Square. One day only sale where all paintings are marked down and all demos and studies are drastically reduced. Come visit me! If you are a student looking for oil painting lessons this is also a great time to see if the way I paint might be the direction that you wish to learn. Painting lessons each week at Zieglers.

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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