In Love With Double Exposure - Around the Neighborhood

High Noon Flowers

Yesterday I drove around and shot pictures in the late afternoon, seeking that special glow of the Golden Hour.  I didn't love anything I took.  So, today, at most photographers least favorite time of day, I took off again on foot taking shots in the neighborhood at high noon.  And, I captured a lot of pictures I like.  I guess I just prefer the glaring colors that are boldest and brightest when the California sun is high up in the sky.

Sweet Alyssum

Looks even sweeter up close!

Lucy With Lantana Flowers

Throw back Monday with flowers!  New photo composite of fallen lantana flowers in my backyard with a high school photo taken of me by my father, the late, great, E.A. Autrey, around 1966.

Busy Hands are ...

... the opposite of idle hands, which are the Devil's workshop, according to some.  Took some time out from sewing last week to play with cold wax and oil paints:

Top to bottom:

1.  Space Flower:  mixed media on paper covered cradled board 16x12

2.  Space Flowers:  mixed media on cradled gessobord 8 1/2 x 12 3/4

3.  Woman Looking to the West:  cold wax, graphite and oil paint on arches oil paper on cradled board 6x6

Jean L. Autrey's "Vase With Flowers"

On the occasion of my mother's upcoming 96th birthday, I thought I'd post some of her beautiful watercolors, starting with this one:  Probably a May day bouquet, of which she painted many over the years.

Amber's Birthday Flower Art

Top to Bottom:
Lucy's watercolor of Amber's birthday flowers (on poor paper)
Cole's watercolor abstract of the flowers (on poor paper)
Wilson's watercolor abstract of the flowers (on good paper)
Wilson and Grandma Lucy's silly pen & ink line art

Garden of Delight

Latest quilt finished 8/6/2014.  50" wide x 67 1/2" high.  Cotton, silk, wool-punched birds and Proteus, and my own designed bee fabric.  Full front view and quilt close up.

Protea

Detail of a Protea flower for a new quilt in process.  Wool punch, embroidery and applique

New Shopping Bags

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Simple Ecology organic cotton grocery bag with quilted animal pattern and buttons
Simple Ecology shopping tote with yellow flower, blue sky oil painting applique
Simple Ecology shopping tote with yellow and blue flowers applique

Oil Painted Tote Bag Panel

Trying something new in the shopping bag category.  In addition to my original art printed fabric quilted panels, I'm adding original oil paint, ink, and brass grommets on unstretched gessoed canvas.  This one is titled "Yellow and Blue Flowers," size 11" h x 10," w to be appliqued onto a Simple Ecology organic cotton shopping tote.

One of my quilted panel grocery bags and some smaller gift bags are now posted in the Crafts section of my new website Redcrowartworks.com.  The original oil painted panel bags will retail for between $60 and $115 once I get them finished.

Cymbidium in the Sun

Cymbidium in the sun, the day after Thanksgiving.  It's wonderful to live in California!

Sunflowers Galore

Continuing on my theme of sunflowers, as first seen in my blog October 15th and again in my blog October 19th, the painting on top of this trio of paintings is a new oil on canvas 18" x 24" titled "Mixed Flowers in Vase." Sunflowers are also a theme of Autrey family painters with the watercolor in the middle a large, gorgeous painting by my mother J.L. Autrey and the trippy sunflower in vase below, an oil by my father E.A. Autrey.   One could say that families that paint sunflowers together, stay together!

Poppies

Oil on canvas 8x10 (with gold and ink)

Little Flower Paintings

Three Pansies (oil on handmade paper on board 5x7), Black Rose (scratched oil on board 5x7), Tropaeolum Tuberosum (oil on photo on fabric on board 8x10)

Barn Window With Flowers

Photo taken in 2012 at Olompali State Park, printed on fabric, rabbit skin glued onto 10x8 birch board with oil painted flowers added