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1. Finished oil on canvas 18x24 "Fleeing the Fire Ash Sky"
2 and 3: In process 36" x 36" oil "Boat in the Water" very early stage underpainting
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Saturday, October 24, 2020
Playing Around With Old Photos, Patterns and Neural Filters in Photoshop on a Gray Day
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Photo shot in Seattle, September 2011 with Amber, Cole and Wilson - as shot
Same photo with B&W filter and some Photoshop Beta Neural face smoothing
Same photo with a different Neural filter and a pattern overlay of a repeating self portrait painted by my father, the late, great E.A. Autrey
Same photo toned down a bit by re-layering the original photo over the 3rd photo.
Since I am no longer travelling up to Seattle on a regular basis, this makes up for it a little.
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
New Fabric Designs and a Contest Entry
I'm back doing more fabric designs, which are available in my Spoonflower shop here: https://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/lucy_autrey_wilson.
Some of the new designs are not yet available but will be soon. They can be seen by clicking on the "designs not for sale" button. I have to buy test samples before I can sell. Some of what's new is described below
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1. New coronavirus repeating fabric design. The viruses were created with Illustrator and Photoshop, then layered on top of a photo of a chain link fence in front of a garden which was modified to more closely appear like an electron microscope scanned viral specimen.
2. I painted a Dodo with pen & ink and watercolor, put it on a watercolor rainbow painting and added scanned cheesecloth.
3. An old fabric design of a bacteria. Face masks made with bacteria and/or virus image fabrics seems like something that makes perfect sense.
4. Last, but not least, I created a Poster Tea Towel image (to be printed on linen) as my entry into a Spoonflower contest. I painted the image (actually a larger version of it) while on one of my many Ibiza vacations. Voting starts Oct. 22. You can vote here: https://www.spoonflower.com/design-challenge
Thursday, October 15, 2020
Painting Mock-Ups
Trying to mock up a few future paintings and can't decide. Any thoughts on preferences would be very helpful! Choices below:
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1. Dodo Over the Rainbow
2. Dodo in Distressed Natural Environment (global warming theme)
3. Dodo in the Forest
4. Durer's Nemesis Angel of Fortune at the Beach with Raven
5. Durer's Nemesis Angel of Fortune with Rainbow Background and Raven
6. Boat in the water in Bolinas
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Painting Fruit with some Fernando Botero Influence
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1. Fat Lemon - with final color glaze
2. Fat Pomegranate - with final color glaze
3. Lemon, before the final glaze, with the original model. Like Fernando Botero's paintings, the final product seems to have expanded! Link to Botero Museum in Bogota, Columbia for examples of his work (which I love): https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/museo-botero-bogota
4. Pomegranate with its model
Saturday, October 10, 2020
Collaborative Painting
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1. Finished still life "Brayer with a Jar of Paintbrushes" oil on stretched canvas 16" x 20" x 3/4"
2. Sketch of Cole Taylor June of 2016 which Wilson painted
3. Sketch of Wilson Taylor June of 2016 which Wilson painted
4. Sketch of wall with outlet and window July 2016 which Wilson scribbled on
5. Sketch of Cole and Wilson July of 2014 where Wilson added the bodies and did the coloring
The bottom four pictures were the inspiration for the top oil painting. I loved doing art with my grandsons where I would get to a point and they would take over. Often the results made the pictures much better! So, without the benefit of having my grandsons around, I pretended my Brayer had a life of its own, and it got into the action after I finished my still life painting, by smearing blue paint on the finished canvas.
Thursday, October 8, 2020
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