Margaret Aycock Representational Oil Painting in Oklahoma

Tuesday, March 03, 2020

Creek paintings

I think my favorite way to paint is small and quick and onsite. These were all painted on 8x10 canvases en plein aire in Oklahoma. The Flint River, Bird Creek, Chickasaw national Park and Spring Creek. Actually it is often hard to let go of these as they are like someone taking your favorite photograph of your favorite day out of your photo album. Fortunately the ones that are no longer with me have gone to good homes :-)

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

A day in the wild places

When it is too cold and yucky out, I sometimes take myself to the wild places by painting. The top painting was really already finished but then I saw a few touches that could make it a better painting. The following one is of my son, Jesse and his dog Scruff. I took the photo at a nearby park but decided he would be better off hanging out by my favorite creek. Both of these paintings are for sale on my ebay site but you may always purchase through this site for a slight discount as we knock out the middle man. .

Monday, November 25, 2019

Dirt Road with yellow flowers revisited.

The painting below with the figures in it was done last year but I never really warmed up to it. This year I took another look and decide the figures detracted from the scene and so I removed them. See if you can find a few other changes that I made between these two paintings. You may purchase the 20x24 painting directly from me for $275. If you would like to visit my ebay gallery you may

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Dog Day at the Beach revisited

So I posted this painting a few weeks ago but left it out for review. It just wasn't measuring up to the drama that I saw in the original photo so I played around with it yesterday and now I think it is done. I have this on ebay w a start price on auction at $275. If you want to purchase directly, for $250 let me know.

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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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