My husband, Scott's paintings

Hi everyone.... I thought I would share this sampling of my husband's paintings.  He has been my student for a couple of years and I thought it was time to brag on him a little.  This is a page that I made for his art work that can be found on my ebay gallery.

SOLD What I saw one day

This pretty scene was painted from memory and photographs.  Of course, it is the beautiful cloud formation that first captured my attention.  We are so lucky here to be able to see this kind of thing on a weekly basis.  This is a tiny painting which is available for sale through  me or on my ebay gallery.  contact me if you want to go around my ebay auction which has the painting starting at $185 and purchase directly from me.  Otherwise, Happy Bidding!  Click here to visit my ebay gallery

Oranges

When it is cold outside, I cruise around the fridge looking for inspiration.  These little oranges were on their way out and I decided that they need to be eaten today.... and painted today.  To Bid on this 6x6 click here

Tangle of Trees

This is a painting that I did last year using an onsite, black and white pencil sketch and a photo taken the same day.  I enjoyed working with the negative space to create the positive illusion of tangled tree branches.  I loved following the abstract shapes that just happen when you tone your canvas first before jumping in.  Inside those negative areas were plenty of little twigs trying to reach the light.

This painting is for sale on ebay this week.  Click here to visit my ebay gallery.

Happy to be a part of this show at the Performing Arts Center in Tulsa

Video from around 2005, Jesse/Jared open for Blind Boys of Alabama

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Painting Surfaces

I thought I would encourage you to consider painting on other surfaces.  Here is what I did on a blank drumhead, a van in France, and a violin.  To bid on the violin, Click Here

Beach Figures

This week's study involved the use of photographs of beach figures.  I think it is a bit of a challenge to teach people to create an impressionistic painting using photos.  You kind of have to un see what you see. and create what you do not see.  Anyways here is my little impressionistic study of a mother and daughter at the shore.  It is on auction this week on Ebay  CLICK HERE to visit the auction and my ebay gallery.

This week's project

This is what I have been working on this week.  I went to a friend's house out in the country for a fall bonfire/potluck.  Thankfully I had my camera with me.  I was struck in the gloaming, of how the grass was almost a spring green and the fall trees glowed with the last hurrah of the sun.  I threw in a dramatic sky in the background from a photo that I had taken earlier in the same week.  I had fun knitting the two together.

I begin with a wash of burnt sienna, a quick abstract of the basic composition, a block in of basic colors and then refine, refine, refine while trying to hold on to the painterly brush stokes and some of the under painting.  That is the trickiest part.  I will sit with this now for a week or so and give it another look to see if there are areas that need more work.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Head 'em off at the Pass

I live near one of the best western art museums in the country.  My favorite paintings there are the ones that are night paintings.  In the background you can see one.  Since I am an Oklahoma girl now, I figured I needed to have at least one or two cowboy/Indian themed paintings.  This one will be for sale at the upcoming Utica Square Arts in the Square next weekend, October 7th.  

If you want to bid on this prior to the physical sale Click Here

Jesse Aycock rocks out with Tedeschi Trucks Band in Dallas last night

Two Shows upcoming in Tulsa... The Artery ( The feminine in Art, and Art in the Square at Utica Square

Utica Square's show:  I will be in front of Star Bucks and Pendeltons on the first Saturday of October
Artery show:  Sept 21-the month of October
A sampling of work you'll find:

Artery in Tulsa " The Feminine in Art"

These are a few of the paintings that I am considering for the Feminine in Art show at the Artery

SOLD! Tulsa in the rain

SOLD Prairie Clouds

Out on the prairie in Oklahoma, where I live, the horizon line can be very low.  Painting what's in front of you here in the wild places, I find my interest is often drawn upward to the sky.  I have a series of paintings of Oklahoma skies in my ebay gallery.  This is one of them.

Garage Sale at Brady Heights Historic District... and My House and Studio!

My studio will be open to any of you who live in Tulsa and have seen this note.  ;-)  I will have some Class Demos outside for sale but all the other paintings will be in the studio which is always open to you guys by appointment but open to you w/o appointment today and tomorrow.

Canoeing the Boundary Waters Margaret Aycock oil on canvas

Once upon a time when we were in our 20s we took a wonderful trip to the boundary waters between Minnesota and Canada.  This painting was inspired by that time we spent so far away from civilization in such a quiet place.... we finally decided that we would throw back any fish that wasn't 12 inches long, we were catching so many!

To visit my Ebay Gallery and possibly bid on this painting... CLICK HERE
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Canoeing the Boundary Waters

Once upon a time when we were in our 20s we took a wonderful trip to the boundary waters between Minnesota and Canada.  This painting was inspired by that time we spent so far away from civilization in such a quiet place.... we finally decided that we would throw back any fish that wasn't 12 inches long, we were catching so many!

To visit my Ebay Gallery and possibly bid on this painting... CLICK HERE

Turkish Figs in Conversation

We are still working small in my adult class.  Today's subject, Turkish Figs.  Don't they kind of look like they are in conversation?

Once upon a time a friend had a friend who brought his fig tree cuttings from the old country.  He spread them around to friends and years passed and one of those friends gifted me with a cutting.  10 years later our fig tree is going strong.  We painted these today and then shared the fresh figs with my class who all had only experienced figs by having them in fig newton form.  The fresh ones are a tasty delight.  This one is on auction this week w the starting bid of $43 and FREE shipping.  I also have a painting that starts at $33 this week.  If you can find it on my ebay gallery site, it could be yours.  Decided to put a few lower priced things on this week just for fun.  Adding some new ones each day.
To Visit Ebay Site CLICK HERE

Find the $33 painting 11x14 oil on canvas Scavenger hunt!

I have a painting that was just posted on ebay which has a starting bid of $33 w no reserve.  It is a little different for me and was featured in a recent show of paintings and poems that my husband and I presented last year.  See if you can find it on my ebay gallery auction.  Look for something grey with a splash of red.
scavenger hunt

SOLD! Rainy Tulsa w Atlas Building