The Great Fish of Fear

The Great Fish of Fear, by me, Mary Stebbins Taitt.

Click image to view larger. A digitally manipulated fractal from Xaos, a free download for macs and windows?

I'm not sure I am done with this, but no time work on it now!

Quick Hubby Sketch at Dinner Tonight

My Sweetness and Light.

Fears about Fat (Manhattan Acid)

Fears about Fat (Manhattan Acid, by Mary Stebbins Taitt. This is a digitally manipulated fractal from Xaos. See a further altered version here, at IMAGIK ART.

Peeping, the last one

When I got my Moleskine back from my second group, the one with Jim Doran, there were a number of blank pages at the end. Hennie Mavis did an extra for me, but I have working to fill in the rest myself. This is the last. All the pages are done. I have a completed book. (YAY!) It's my first fully completed Moleskine of art. If I ever have time, I may make a movie of it and post it. Meanwhile, all the individual pieces that I have done are on my blog and the rest are at the FLICKR site we used.* Except not everyone posted theirs--some of my favorites never got posted. (And some did).

This piece is a result of my fooling around experimenting with various techniques--I was playing with that wide paper masking tape used for painting in houses--I forget what it's called, and combining various media. I used pigment markers and pens over colored pencil. I'm not overly pleased with the results, but I learned by it, which is what it was all about.

This is a small 5 x 8 Moleskine and of course BB was my willing model.

*I lied. Our FLICKR group has apparently been disbanded without my knowledge or consent. (I was going to post a link).

Colorplay

Colorplay, by Mary Stebbins Taitt. Digital painting.

I worked on this some more and produced this, which I actually like better.

Uber-quick marker sketches

At dinner tonight, after I finished eating but K was drinking his
beer, I made a couple of super-quick sketches and played around with
marker blending. BB is all pigment markers, the hen, for which I had
nothing to look at and isn't quite right, is a combiation of pigment
and dye markers, and the valentine for my sweetie is me playing with
marker blending with both pigment and dye markers. I was working so
fast I was almost scribbling because I knew he'd finish his beer and
get up. He did not hold still for his portrait and his nose and other
parts are a little off.

Living Statues

I have been fascinated with the living statues at the Renaissance Faire. I've taken lots of pictures of them (and slipped one into Hennie's Mole.) I decided to try to paint two of them, but ended up drawing one with Faber-Castell PITT artist brush pens (pigment markers) and then painting over the white parts with white gouache. I could take some lessons from Anders on making good folds!!! I did the other in ball point pen because it is for Mike to finish and he often likes to work in ball point pen. I left the column out on that one because I wanted to give him maximum creative control on subject, materials, space etc. When I was all done, I decided that the living statues are a better subject for photography than art, because the pure whiteness of them doesn't seem as striking in the art pieces as it does in the photos--too late--they're already done. Click images to view larger.