Exquisite Corpse Family Vacation Art

Contributors:  Lucy Autrey Wilson, Matt Taylor, Wilson Taylor, Rebecca Laughlin, Charlotte Laughlin, Malia (friend of Charlotte), Matt Songer, JeanAAutrey, Susan and Gerry Manata, Elsa and Rick Zisook

Two Candles

Still life pen & ink and watercolor.  Done on vacation in Quilcene, Hood Canal, WA

Exquisite Corpse Exercise

Digital collage in 4 parts with solid background.

Garden of Delight

Latest quilt finished 8/6/2014.  50" wide x 67 1/2" high.  Cotton, silk, wool-punched birds and Proteus, and my own designed bee fabric.  Full front view and quilt close up.

Wooly Creatures

Wool punched and embroidered creatures for a new 3' x 3' quilted wall hanging in process.

What inspired me today

besides Lisa Kraft Seibert's new baby boy?  The pink star on this crushed juice can, spotted on the road on my way downtown to the library, then captured while testing my new Canon G15 Powershot camera.

Indigo Tie Dye

Wilson Taylor and Grandma Lucy Art

Artwork by Wilson (one week shy of his 5th birthday), created on his own and with his grandma Lucy in Seattle, July 2014, is better than any of the art Lucy saw at museums and galleries in Seattle on her last trip. Top to bottom:
1.  Cole and Wilson: pen & ink and colored pencil on brown craft paper 9x12.  Cole did add some color to this one, but generally he was happiest putting together exotic Lego sculptures.
2.  Garden:  pen & ink and colored pencil on pink craft paper.
3.  Grandma and Me:  pen & ink and marker on pink craft paper.
4.  Raindrops and Rainbows:  Watercolor and ink 6x9
5.  Rainbow:  Crayon on plain paper 8 1/2 x 11
6.  Eclectic:  (includes art by Wilson's dad Matt Taylor on yellow stick-its + an elephant) and a pen & ink rooted flower by Grandma Lucy

Variations on a Parrot Theme

Variations on a Blackbird theme

I believe I prefer my digital images to my monotypes, but both techniques are fun.

Variations on a Crane Theme

Expanding on my "Crane in Carmel" print effort (see earlier blog entry), I thought I'd try some digital variations including a print (above) and a new fabric design (below).

Protea

Detail of a Protea flower for a new quilt in process.  Wool punch, embroidery and applique

Art is the Best Therapy - New Prints

Prints from the San Anselmo Printmakers 3rd press run.  Top to Bottom:
1.  Strange Journey #1 collagraph
2.  Crane ghost monotype with ink and gouache
3.  Blackbird ghost monotype with ink and gouache
4.  Surfer monotype with gouache and watercolor
5.  Blackbird in Marin monotype chine colle with gouache
6.  Crane in Carmel monotype chine colle with pastel and gouache

R.I.P. E.A. Autrey

My brilliant, talented, funny, loving, difficult dad died this week, two weeks shy of his 94th birthday.  I shot this video of him on a trip-of-a-lifetime in May/June 2013 when Papa and I traveled with sister Laura back to Macy, Indiana to see where E.A. Autrey grew up.  He will be missed.

Bird Prints

Touched up prints from top to bottom:

Blue-crowned MotMot ghost print

Blue-crowned MotMot in ginger chine colle

Blue Parrot with Baobab trees

Blue Parrot with Baobab trees chine colle 

Blue-Crowned Motmot Monotype

Best unadulterated print of mine, made during the 2nd San Anselmo Printmakers artwork day, was this blue-crowned motmot chine colle monotype.   The process included an Adobe Illustrator B&W drawing, of a motmot bird collaged into a photograph of ginger, taken in Maui, then printed on Kozo paper, then glued to 100% cotton rives bfk paper, then monoprinted with akua inks and liquid pigments using a polycarbonate plate.

Helleborus

Experimenting with different techniques.  This 11x15 print is an encaustic monotype with pastel and ink.