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Sierra Meadow , Oil painting by Rick McClure The Oklahoma Art Guild is offering a Plein Air Landscape workshop with Rick McClure . If you want to learn to capture the essence and life of a landscape, then join them as they explore 4 different Oklahoma views during the course of a year. This workshop is for the beginner as well as seasoned plein air artist. At each location, Rick will present a 45 minute demonstration and then provide guidance to the students in plein air techniques. Their first location is Will Rogers Nature Center where students will have the opportunity to paint these historic gardens located in the heart of Oklahoma City. While at the Gardens, visitors can wander along winding paths where botanical delights await at every turn. Inside the garden walls, visitors are surrounded by thousands of roses, irises, azaleas, daylilies and peonies, among other colorful flowers and plants. The rose garden is surrounded by two lakes sits on 10 acres of pristine park land and f...

Peonies with Sliced Apple, by Carla Anglada I have started teaching middle school art. My classes are full of characters that give me many stories to tell (with no names, of course). I absolutely love it and can’t wait to share with them what I know. Oh, if you have any great lesson or project ideas, please, send them my way. At this time, all my students are working on one sculpture for El Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). Each class is creating a part of the sculpture of paper mache skulls and color tissue paper flowers. It will be part of an exhibit at the Gold Dome in Oklahoma City starting October 22nd. I hope you come to see it. I will post more details of the event later. Because I am a new teacher, I have lots of catch-up work to do. This has limited my painting time to almost zero. But now that I am getting a tad bit more comfortable, I look forward to learning from an artist whose work I have admired since I walked into the JRB and spotted one of her 8”x10” master paint...