Updating My Website to Showcase More Art - Check it Out!

 

I've added a new collection to my website.  Now you can find Collection #1 (All About Birds) and a new Collection #2 (Flowers in Art) by clicking on the small image on the GalleryLAW page.  Each collection features 12 images which are a combination of paintings (oil, watercolor, pen & ink), printmaking, photography, fabric creations, etc.  Link: Lucy Autrey Wilson Art | Exploring My Creative Impulses

Five More Original Applique T Shirts - We are in Bird World Now

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1.  Checkered Toucan:  Women's size M

2.  Blue-headed Parrot:  Women's size M

3.  Blue-legged Roadrunner:  Youth size L

4.  Funky Office Supplies Bird (original designed fabric):  Youth size M

5.  Funky Checkers Bird:  Youth size M

These are for sale $32/each + $5 shipping and will be available by appointment in my studio or online at Fine Art | Lucy Autrey Wilson Art or online at Lucy Autrey Wilson Art | Facebook

Latest Creative Efforts

 Top:  36 x 36 oil on stretched canvas.  "Gull Wading at Stinson Beach"

Bottom:  55 x 70 Suburbia Quilt.  Cotton with wool Batting.  

Young J.L., Blue

 Young J.L. Blue.  I tried and tried to paint a decent likeness of young J.L., but failed so I painted her blue!  8x10 oil on linen.  

Blue Bird of Happiness

 Another new painting, in a slightly different style.  I am incapable of any kind of consistency, but experimentation is what keeps me sane.  This is a common subject matter since birds make me happy.  Oil on cradled board 12 x 9.

Magnolia Portrait

 5x7 oil on linen.  1955/1944

Painting Mock-Ups

 

Working on the concept for a series of Flowery Memories of Childhood with small 5x7 oil on canvas paintings of my family (parents and siblings) set against floral backgrounds.  The original concept was to paint the humans with few facial details and in odd skin colors to blend in more artistically with the looser floral backgrounds (once painted).  There has been a suggestion, however, that it would be preferable to paint both the individuals and the flowers with more realistic details.  More opinions welcome!

Option A:  Paint both background and people in realistic colors with facial details included (example Lucy bottom pic)

Option B:  Paint backgrounds and people in bolder colors with fewer details (example Lucy 2nd to bottom pic)

These smaller paintings are companion pieces to my bigger 18x24 oil paintings in process (see below)

Cacophony

 My younger, super cellist sister, recently gave me our grandfather's violin.  I recorded myself playing it and added some other musical elements.  The sound made me think of the word Cacophony, ie "a harsh discordant mixture of sounds."   That, in turn, reminded me of the mixture of experiences that make up life.  In my case, the approximately 75% of allotted time already lived.  Fortunately I have the thousands of photos my father took over the years, as well as a vast trove of other artworks and photos.  Happy technology has advanced to the point where all of this can be easily put together.  Here is one result. 

Free Bird Evolution

In 2005 I painted the bottom picture of a bird.  The painting is 100% digital.   I liked it.  So, the next year, in 2006, I painted the same subject as an oil painting.  Now that I'm exploring paper collage, I decided to revisit my old favorite subject, and created the top picture in yet another medium.

Santa Fe In-Camera Double Exposure

What fun, creating photo art compositions out of Santa Fe's sculptures, botanicals, rocks, walls, metal plates and wrought iron bars.  Doing double exposure in camera, you never know what you're going to get!

Mothers Day Family Art Project

Mother's day was celebrated a day early in Walnut Creek with some group art
Top:  Redo of 4 square drawing, done by three sisters and one (nearly) 97 year old mother
Middle:  Original 4 square drawing; done with each of 3 sisters having a square and the mother filling in wherever (blue person, pink accents, etc.)
Bottom:  Diptych (ie art done in two pieces, no hinge) joined together here, of a green-headed bird, perhaps in flames?  The result of 4 sisters working together in harmony.

Exquisite Corpse Family Vacation Art

Contributors:  Lucy Autrey Wilson, Matt Taylor, Wilson Taylor, Rebecca Laughlin, Charlotte Laughlin, Malia (friend of Charlotte), Matt Songer, JeanAAutrey, Susan and Gerry Manata, Elsa and Rick Zisook

Queen Tut Silk Quilt

Latest, very time consuming, quilt finished!  Measuring 48" wide x 66 3/4" high, this lounge-worthy original design is composed of all silk fabrics with a cotton flannel backing.  The light and darker brown silks are from a Thai silk spread purchased by Elsa and Rick Zisook in Thailand - now cut up and reused by me.  The central "watercolor" quilted section is composed of eight separate pieces of silk, some originally retailing for close to $300/yard, purchased from eBay (for much less than their retail price) in a box of assorted silk samples.  These eight silk samples were cut up into 768 1" squares, then sewn together on Pellon 820 Quilter's grid fusible polyester.  Stitch in the ditch quilting applied to the top portion of the quilt, but the bottom was finished using two separate stencil designs.  It was hard getting the entire quilt through the small space on my Bernina B215 sewing machine, but I managed it without breaking anything.  I love my machine!!

Fun With Fabric

A gift bag, five treasure bags and a grocery bag with a quilted art panel.  Having fun sewing with printed art on fabric, laminated fabrics, and grommets!