Margaret Aycock Representational Oil Painting in Oklahoma

Saturday, June 28, 2025

A view of our city from the northwest.

My husband and I were just coming home from swimming up at Post Oak Lodge in the Osage county of Oklahoma and we’re at the top of the hill coming down into our neighborhood and decided to take a few photographs of the sun lighting up the clouds and a few of the buildings in Tulsa

Sunday, April 20, 2025

Sold! This year‘s rendition… Cherry blossoms, and lilacs

Tuesday, April 01, 2025

Curiosity, art, and writing show at Tcc

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Revised additions of these three books will be out this week. I will have PayPal buttons shortly if you would prefer to buy directly from me at a lower price or buy from Amazon. A couple of them are already on Amazon.

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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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