Sound of Dawn - a Short Experimental Animated Photograph

Beautiful West Marin County, where I need to escape to more often!  

Alien Dreams: an Animated Painting

I like to paint, then use the art in new ways.  With this original cartoon animation, it was fun to come up with stories for the characters conjured up by my imagination.  In the 2025 Cartoon Characters oil painting, my sleeping man character, like Litle Nemo in the comics by Winsor McCay, is a dreamer of a series of short fantasy sequences.

New Short Animation Featuring Some More Artwork

    

Space Paintings:  a 45 second video with an original soundtrack featuring four new oil paintings

A Little Video of Some 2025 Oil Paintings with Animation

Featuring five 2025 oil paintings

1.  Blue Jay on Rock Wall, oil on linen 8 x 10.  with AI bird flying animation. 

2. On the Road landscape, oil on linen 5x7.  with animated car

3.  Raven on a Tightrope, oil on encausticbord 12 x 16.  with rain animation

4.  Two Suburban Friends from 1969, oil on canvas 28 x 22.  with a glimpse of the photo by E.A. Autrey of me with friend Marguerite Barron that inspired the painting.

5.  Yearning for What Once Was (Sunflowers), oil on canvas 36x36.  with various photographic alternative views, shot in California, seen out the window.  

Capped Parrot Symphony From art to Altered Reality

https://youtube.com/shorts/pvP2A0H3Q-Y?feature=shared

Another excuse to compose an orignal soundtrack with Cubase 14 and a Yamaha MX88.  This short 22 second video shows the transition of a segment from my oil painting, of a fantasy cape-wearing parrot, in a field in Mendocino, to a brightened version of the bird in the actual reference photograph.

Portals: Episode VI Wrought Iron Doors

The finale to a six part series of Spanish Doors painted in Ibiza, Spain in 2005 with photographs from all over the world and some animation.  Also included is an original soundtrack.

Portals: Episode V The Brown Door

Continuing on in my 6 part series of 1 minute videos.  The project started with a series of paintings done in Ibiza, of the local Spanish landscape as seen beyond a made-up doorway.  The first painting, a simple Blue Door, got progressively more complicated with each new painting from Yellow to Green to Red, and now Brown.  Painting #5 added Spanish tiles, a bull, wrought iron and a glass chandelier.   The door in this video opens out to a progression of photographs and animations in the color scheme of the doors, in this case the color brown.  Included are shots taken in India, Greece, Seattle, and Northern California.

Portals: Episode IV The Red Door

The 4th in a series of 6 Portals videos, featuring watercolor paintings of doors painted in Ibiza, opening to a series of around the world photographs that feature the color of the door.

Portals: Episode III The Green Doors

The 3rd in a series of Portals videos, each of which begin with doors that open out to landscapes and animations predominately featuring the colors of the doors themselves.  

Portals: Episode I The Blue Door

 First in a new series of 6 videos.  What's behind each unique door?  Tune in and find out.

Flying Over Auckland, New Zealand

Panorama of photos shot in New Zealand on a recent trip with some added extras!

Lazarus: Out The Window

A short video, possibly the first in a series of scenes seen through a window.  This one from a photo shot in Athens, Greece, in which an ancient warrior, from a stone sculpture, is seen rising from the dead.

Crow Dance Short Dancing Bird Animation

Experimenting with Adobe Animate to bring some life to my art.

Picassoesque Egghead Transformation

 After my broken foot kept me in the house for months, I started drawing eyes, ears, noses and mouths.  These became my mix and mash elements and are featured in a recent video on my Youtube channel.  I thought I would do one last short animation before moving on to something else.  Following Picasso's habit of creating alternative versions of other artist's material, I have used Picasso's paintings as the inspiration for mine.

Egg Heads: a Mix and Mash Animation

Trying something new with illustrator art in the form of an episodic adventure loosely based on Mr.  & Mrs. Pumpkin Head.

Crows flying away from their Winter Nest

A short animated still photo of a winter's crows nest with a murder of flying crows shot separately

Cartoon Stories: A Circus Story in 10 Acts: Act III TheJuggler

Act III!

Cartoon Stories Act II: The Talking Heads

Act II of a planned 10 act series of short circus animations featuring characters from a 2022 oil painting.  

Cartoon Stories Act 1

Part 1 of a planned 10 part series of cartoon circus stories featuring original characters created in an oil painting by me, and an original soundtrack featuring cello music played by my sister Susan.

Devil's Dream - new video

My sister Susan and I had fun collaborating on a number of fiddle tunes.  Susan recorded them on her cello, and I added various digital tracks.  This one called out for a video that featured dreamlike imagery with a bit of humor.