Portals: Episode II Yellow Doors

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!

Maori Wars Poster

 A poster photographed in the window of a shop in the cute village Matakana, New Zealand titled "Maori Wars."  Star Wars can be found all over the world!  

I Have Updated my Website and added More Family Member Artworks!

 Have finally updated my website Lucy Autrey Wilson Art | Exploring My Creative Impulses with more of my art AND have now added a section of art created by my father (E.A. Autrey), and by my husband (Sam Wilson)  in addition to watercolors by my mother (J.L. Autrey) already in a gallery.  These new galleries are accessed on the top of my home page.  There are other areas to explore by clicking on other home page images.  Here are some examples of new art.  Check it out!

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

Crow Dance Short Dancing Bird Animation

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

2024 Bird Christmas

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.

European Memories - The trip to Morocco

Spain, 1970, on the way to Morocco with Steve Lewis and two friends.  Steve shipped his Maroon colored VW bug with surf board over to Spain from Southern California to go surfing in Morocco, and picked me up in Madrid on the way.  I invited two other girls to come.  I was a brat.  Here I'm wearing Steve's cashmere sweater.  I probably would have been kidnapped and put into white slavery in Morocco if not for Steve.  Amazing I survived this, among many other adventures.  I've always wondered what happened to Steve Lewis.  I wanted to apologize for my behavior.  He was a great guy.

Fantasy Interior in Indiana

 On a trip to Indiana with my 93 year old father in 2013, there wasn't much to do, with no computer, TV or cell phone, so I drew.  This is one of the rooms in the house where we were staying.  Most of it is made up.

Hydrangea Melody

It seems I've taken a lot of photos of Hydrangea over the years.  So I put them together and threw in some old family photos and oil painted butterflies to create a little fantasy.  Original music included.

Learning Anatomy Because of a Broken Ankle

Top is a watercolor painting of my left leg with the two broken malleolus and the surgical implants recently added to fix them.  While painting, I was drinking coffee out of one of my favorite Mushroom mugs when I noticed the Fly agaric mushroom's stem looked remarkable like my Tibia.  So, I added a Mushroom cap to the image.  The reference used to visualize my own leg and broken bits is from the invaluable "Atlas of Human Anatomy" by Frank H. Netter, M.D.

Doodle Art

 Having fun doodling with watercolor and Adobe Illustrator line art.  Maybe a new fabric design, although I do not need any more fabric!

The Star Wars Album That Never Was

 Since I can't walk much until my broken ankle heals, I've been listening to a lot of music.  Some old favorites include Pink Floyd "Comfortably Numb," and The Who "See Me, Feel Me," from their Tommy album.  This got me to thinking about when I tried to create a CD of rock and roll music as a soundtrack to one of Lucasfilm's Computer Games.  My idea of expanding the Star Wars universe with books that told new stories had worked out better than I could have imagined, and I thought maybe I could do something similar with music.

In the mid 1990s, the Publishing dept. had coordinated with the Games group and the Toy group on a "movie without the movie" called Shadows of the Empire.   I licensed, and worked on, the novel and an original music soundtrack.  Around the same time, I was looking for other ways to create new music products that might be associated with the Star Wars expanded universe.  So, Virgin Records in the UK put together a compilation as a possible soundtrack for the Dark Forces Game.  This idea didn't make it much further.  Although George Lucas was OK with my dept. developing new stories, it soon became clear that any new Star Wars music would have to be originated by John Williams.

The best result of this failed effort is the great CD compilation soundtrack Virgin Records put together for me, which I've posted above.  The individual tunes can be found on YouTube.  

Relatives in all their Glory!

 

So lucky to have these unique individuals in my life!  

Fun day shooting the beauty of San Francisco's Presidio in July

 Not Manderley, but intriguing nevertheless

Spray Bottle and Color Blobs

 Layering original line art with illustrator patterns in an effort to take my mind off of politics

Choosing the Right Direction

One path leads to personal freedom, and a good, healthy, honest space within which to experience life while the other leads to tyranny and decay.   Which would you choose?

It's Not Complicated

 Things might look confusing, but it's not complicated to tell reality from fiction.

Something New, Something Blue, Something Quilted Too

 

Latest obsession - making quilted 16x16 throw pillow cases.  Above are three pillow backs and a front facing, flower garden inspired, applique, quilted, abstract on pink satin.  The backs shown are gift pillows - face designs are still top secret.  The blue back of the left pillow sports my own fabric design.  More original fabric designs can be found at Lucy Autrey Wilson Art Fabric, Wallpaper and Home Decor | Spoonflower.  Working on some other custom quilted pillow cases.  Stay tuned, or let me know if you want a custom quilt pillow case!

Having Fun with Adobe Illustrator AI

 I was playing around with Adobe Illustrator, when I discovered the ability to create new vector art based on a sample style I could define.  So I asked the program to create a scary shark based on an old watercolor painting I did called "At the Beach."  The result is above.  It could be a great logo for a line of surfer apparel.  

In The Garden from watercolor to digital painting

 Years ago, I painted a little mini series of watercolor paintings, each about a place, and each 10 x 7 on Arches paper.  I then blew some of them up and printed them larger.  I liked this one, so I did an illustrator version continuing the "In The Garden" theme.  I thought I could turn it into some loud fabric design, but now realize I'll have to work a bit more to have the pattern repeat successfully.