Two New Bird Portraits

 Part of a new series of Bird portraits.  These are 18x24 x 1 1/2 inch oil on stretched canvas.

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Blue Macaw in Evening Robe

Dodo in a Mumu

Finch with Bird of Paradise Oil Paining

 Latest oil on linen 8x10.  

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

Six New Original T Shirt Designs

 All now sold with the exception of red heart funky bird.  Yeah!

Flower Dance

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

Teeter Totter

The Taylors come to Marin and we all go to the beach!  Music by Haydn, Mozart, a little original music and some loops.

Clever Idea on Display in Downtown San Anselmo

I was taking photos around town and encountered this very innovative display.  Luckily a woman was nearby and, when queried about the artist, she said she and her son had created the artwork.  Using Lego bricks, they made a very unique Little Library sculpture around the free library box in front of their house.  Love this!

Galapagos Sunset Jazz

Out of thousands of photos shot in The Galapagos on a trip in 2017, I've selected my favorite 160 and set them to an original jazz soundtrack.  

An Alternate Big Dipper Story

A little video with a fantasy storyline and an original score.  Featuring a number of beautiful photographs, a NASA moon and some made up petroglyphs.

Photo Polymer Gravure Prints

From a photo shot in the East Bay in 2016, at the Black Diamond Mines Regional Park, I created a polymer plate in a recent course taken at Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, taught by Kazuko Watanabe.  I then used that one image to create a number of prints on Fine Art Paper (Arches and Fabriano).   Most of my efforts used the process of Chine Colle (adhering pre printed Kozo and other Japanese papers with Nori paste, by placing them on top of an inked plate, then adding damp paper and running it all through a press)  In all of the images above, except for the final image, I've digitally added a mat board.

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1.  Chine Colle using a semi sheer colored Kozo paper print with added clouds

2.  A roll up on the plate of various degrees of transparent inks

3.  A simple black ink print

4.  Chine Colle using a colored paper print with an original pattern design

5.  Chine Colle adding a grid and Crane drawing

6.  Chine Colle adding a drawing of a man done on a Costa Rica vacation years ago

7.  Cine Colle adding color, clouds and a small bird

8.  Chine Colle adding a fractal design, and a drawing of a bird done in Ibiza

9.  Chine Colle adding color, clouds and two drawings of flying crows

10.  A mono print using two colored oil based inks painted directly onto the inked plate

11.  Chine Colle of transparent color and new clouds on very soft, deluxe Fabriano Paper

Grease Stains and Other Delights - new video

What to do with photographs of grease stains, crushed apricots, running water by the sidewalk curb, and bicycle tracks on asphalt?  Make a little video with an original soundtrack!  Some of the music played on my Yamaha MX88 is part of Handel's Gavotte and Gigue from G. Henle Verlag Urtext Piano Suites and Piano Pieces, London 1733.  

Dance of the Cymbidium Orchids to Two Bars of Handel's Passacaglia

Spring Orchids, photos & artwork set to Handel's music

Trees in an Artificial Sunset

Scanned Japanese washi paper and a B&W treatment of trees shot in Seattle make for a happy marriage. 

New Website with Original Art for Sale

 https://www.lucyautreywilsonart.com/

Happy to announce I now have my own website with a collection of original artwork for sale.  Will be updating the selection periodically.  Check it out!

Junkyard Ballet

Latest YouTube video with dancing pigs, rabbits and a red crow!

Evolution of a Dodo Painting - In Process

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1.  Somehow the abstract painting I was thinking of painting (#5) has turned into a Dodo bird painting.  Maybe this is because I'm in the process of painting another Dodo painting (more on that later,) or just because birds seem to appear in many of my paintings of their own volition.

2.  In 2012, I began a large 36x36 oil painting of The Big Wave, based on a series of nightmares I had over many years.

3.  The Big Wave painting included a childhood image of myself looking out of the canvas, oblivious to the danger.  Then I added a bunch of other people who were looking at the wave.  The execution of the final painting didn't work out (no photo documentation exists of the failed painting).

4.  In 2015, I over painted The Big Wave with a white textured background and put the painting in the garage (to join an increasing number of other paintings.)  Now that I'm re-enamored of oil painting, I'm resurrecting old works and painting over them.  

5.  In 2021, I created a digital composite of a blueprint to over paint the over painted Big Wave painting with a colorful abstract background.  Part way through the process, a bird head appeared.  Now, in 2022, the painting (#1) has turned into a Dodo bird painting.  But my childhood self, in the yellow two- piece bathing suit, is still there.  I'm tentatively calling this new painting the "Dodo Tamer."     It's nearly done, I think, at least for now.

Bon Tempe Magic - The latest video

A Murder of Crows in Marin

The crows are just about out of control here in Marin County.  But I still like them.  In this video I've combined cell phone footage and sound with stills, crow art and an original soundtrack created with Steinberg Cubase.  

Rocket To Another World

The latest video!  

View From Mt. Tamalpais

 Scenes of the 180 degree view from Mt. Tamalpais East Peak on New Year's Day with an original soundtrack.

Mock Up for New 36 x 36 oil painting?

Repainting old oil paintings on the horizon for 2022.  One idea is for a series contrasting realism with abstract painting styles to explore the process of imagination.  

Year End Wrap Up of Top 20 Photos Shot in 2021

 

Rainy Day Jazz

What better way is there to spend a rainy day than making new music and animations!  

Space Alien Animation

One of my short YouTube Videos based on photos, mostly shot around the neighborhood.

Three Christmas Tree Videos: 2010, 2016 and 2021.

 Neon Christmas Tree, 2021 featuring music of "We Three Kings" played on a Yamama MX88 and Cubase Artist by Lucy Autrey Wilson.  This follows two prior Christmas Tree Videos:

Christmas Tree, 2016 featuring original music composed and played by the late, great, J.L. Autrey

Christmas Tree, 2010 featuring the Autrey family Orchestra.

Exquisite Corpse Animation

A family vacation drawing game, becomes an animation

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.  

New Video! Falling Into Winter

The older I get, the more I appreciate autumn.  This video is a 2+ minute photo montage, with an original soundtrack featuring Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata theme (played and recorded by me using my Yamaha MX88), and some novel effects.  With over 80 images, the video is a celebration of a beautiful time of year, as photographed in and around Marin County over several seasons.   

What Am I Doing Here?

 Repainted portrait of young Lucy time traveling forward to land at Drakes Beach.  Somehow the expression raises the question, "what am I doing here?"

Kitty Cats and the Mountain Lion - new Oil Painting

 New Oil on Stretched Belgian Linen 28 x 22 x 1/1/4.  Using a reference photo of the Nicasio reservoir and an old photo of Amber, shot in Texas, it made sense to add a mountain lion.

Having Fun with Photoshop Neural Filters

Photoshop has a new feature where you can run an image through a filter to make it look like another style of art.  Top:  Sam in Greece with a neural filter from an old "at the beach" watercolor.  Bottom three: I took a photo of two roses in a blue vase, and ran that through a filter of an original fabric design, done in illustrator, of a Paenibacillus bacteria, and ended up with the 2nd to top image.  Endless possibilities!  So many ways to avoid housework!

It Rained Too Much at One Time!

Power lines down, streets closed, creeks close to overflowing; creeks which were completely empty one week ago.  Exciting taking photos in the storm (2nd from top pic shows rain falling, bottom shows drops on the window.) Mother nature is certainly a force to be reckoned with.
 

It Rained!

 and the leaves are falling!  Never been so happy to feel raindrops or welcome fall.  

Los Tres Amigos

 A new series of bird people?  Los Tres Amigos.  8x10 oil on linen.

#3 Mini Landscapes of Marin County

 View of Pt. Reyes Station from the tidal flats.  5x7 oil on linen.