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!
What is Autrey Art?
Random artworks by Lucy Autrey Wilson
Monday, June 3, 2024
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
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.
Thursday, January 11, 2024
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.
Wearing clothes covered in Corona Virus designed fabric?
Happy to find an unknown guest has purchased my Corona Virus fabric design from Spoonflower Lucy Autrey Wilson Art Fabric, Wallpaper and Home Decor | Spoonflower. Maybe I should design more virus and bacteria designs! They are certainly interesting.
Sunday, January 7, 2024
Crows flying away from their Winter Nest
A short animated still photo of a winter's crows nest with a murder of flying crows shot separately
Friday, January 5, 2024
After Image I Color Theory short animation
Youtube short video created by combining an old watercolor painting, Boris FX Optics software, and some original music to illustrate an example of afterimage color theory.
Tuesday, December 26, 2023
Baby Isabelle Jackson's New Quilt
At the end of 2023, a new baby girl was welcomed to the extended family: Baby Isabelle Jackson, daughter of my niece Rachel and her husband Court. Happily, this gave me an excuse to create an original crib quilt measuring 49" wide by 53" high. Some history: In 2015, I went to India with two friends on a quest to discover fabric artists in the state of Gujarat. Along the way we discovered the Rann of Kutch's wildlife santuary and stayed briefly at the Rann Riders Resort. On a mini safari we saw many exotic (to me) birds including Painted Storks, a Snake Eagle, black-headed Ibis, Egrets and Greater Flamingos among others. I drew many of the birds once we got back from our trip, and created the bird fabric printed on the quilt back above. Unfortunately I had only taken a little Canon Powershot G15 camera, which was not good enough for great bird photos. The beauty of applique is that I could use my photos as reference to create the stork image on the quilt front. This was done by making an Adobe Illustrator image, which was then used as a template for the final fabric applique design. Many of the quilt fabrics were purchased from Britex in San Francisco with a mix of soft whites, pastel pinks, cotton satins and more. The basic design was created with Electric Quilt's EQ8 software, then modified by accident, or intent, as the quilt was being built. The memory of the trip, bird motif, and the quality of the different fabrics made working on the quilt another level of pleasure.
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