Yellow Duckie Makes His Escape Deja Vu

 Short animation of a yellow duck escaping an oil on stretched linen 5x7 painting to swim off into a digital sea.  Originally published 8/7/2021; updated 9/19/2026

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.

Behind the Lichen-Covered Door

 A new 5x7 oil painting suggested a peak behind the door.  Added are some photographs from Mendocino in March 2016 and an original soundtrack inspired by Edvard Grieg's Bekken (Op. 62, No. 4).

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 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.  

Swimming Pool

Belize swimming pool, with younger grandsons Cole and Wilson Taylor, in a new fantasy video with sound.

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.

Past and Present Video

After a hiatus from taking photos, I finally got my camera out on a beautiful springlike day and took several neighborhood pics.  These were then combined with an original soundtrack and animated with family photos from the past.  Somewhat eclectic to be sure. 

Birds Over San Francisco Bay

A panorama of 12 photos shot from East Peak Mt. Tamalpais, of the San Francisco Bay, with California and Galapagos birds flying over.  Featured birds are:  Crow, Vulture, Seagull, Pelican, Frigatebird, Nazca Booby and Albatross.  Original soundtrack made with Cubase 14

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.

A Day at Bondi Beach - video

Spent some quality time at Bondi Beach in Australia in October and spent the day taking photographs.  This one added a soundtrack of me playing Satie (not very well) with the addition of various other sound effects to tie in with the action onscreen.  I've done another one uploaded to Vimeo (vimeo.com/user1980254/)

which has a different soundtrack.  Let me know which you prefer.

Cartoon Stories: A Circus Story in 10 Acts: Act VI Bird Ballet

This video includes bits from 3 ballets:  The Firebird, Swan Lake and The Nutcracker and brings back great memories from my childhood when I was lucky enough to take classes from a Russian Prima Ballerina named Madame Maria Kedrina in the 1950s in Santa Barbara and to dance (only in the Chorus) in a number of ballets she put on at the Lobero Theater.  More on Madame Kedrina can be found in this Issuu piece done by the Santa Barbara historical society:  https://issuu.com/santabarbaramuseum/docs/noticias_30_3_fall_1984 

Circus Story Act IV: The Magician

Part IV now live!

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

Act III!

East Bay Hills - latest video!

Hiking in the east bay from 2016 to March 2023.  Such a beautiful place!

Season of the Witch short video

Short little Witch video for Halloween using local Halloween decorations shot in and around Marin County, California

Hot Days at the Beach in Marin County

During prior heat waves it made sense to escape the temperature by driving to the beach.  A search of my beach photos led me to hot days at the beach in 2017 and 2021.  But the 6 days in September, where the temperature exceeded 100 degrees for 6 consecutive days, was too much.  The only way to survive without air conditioning was to just lay around the house with the fan on.

Flower Dance

A short animation with an original jazz soundtrack.  Original background artwork available at Fine Art | Lucy Autrey Wilson Art in the shop.