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).

Trying for a likeness

A quick sketch from life of BB in the back of the Mole from the last round, which still has a few blank pages. I'd like to be able to do likenesses. Click sketch to enlarge. I'd really like to be able to do likenesses!!!

Various Sketches

Various Sketches, by Mary Stebbins Taitt, two each in my two current sketchbook exchange books.

1)Night Fishing, after"Shack Medicine," by Thomas Wood
2)First Light, after "Dawn of a New Day," by Tom Browning
3)The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg
4)The Kiss that didn't happen

The gold pieces are golder than they look in the scans.

Various Cliches for an Alternate Holiday

Various Cliches for an Alternate Holiday, by Mary Stebbins Taitt. Done on Thanksgiving. Hope yours was happy. This is in Ammon's Moleskine.

Harvest

Harvest, by Mary Stebbins Taitt. I suppose this is the quintessential cliche of autumn, but I couldn't resist. In Mike Kline's Big Book. Polychromos pencils and graphite pencil.

{And let me tell you, the scan is terrible! I the barn is red, the sky is blue. (all those nice clicheed colors!) Oh well.}

I am leaving Thursday for 4-days at a poetry conference/retreat/workshop in
Harbor Springs, MI.

The Equinox

The Equinox, by Mary Stebbins Taitt. In Mike's sketchbook, for sketchbook exchange.

I hate to be a whiner, but this really didn't scan well--the blues are actually darker than this and the pinks pinker. Oh well.

HAPPY EQUINOX!!!! Enjoy the Autumn!

One for Johnny Norm's

Amanita Muscaria, the Fly agaric, by Mary Stebbins Taitt. Pen and Ink and colored pencil. You could theoretically get high on these mushrooms, but the dose to get high is alarmingly close to the fatal dose. I'd rather just admire them.

2 more in Johnny Norm's: Sheeraffes and moonbirds

1)The Rendezvous of the Wild Mountain Sheeraffes, pen and colored pencil.
2)Why the Moonbirds Flew to the Sun, graphite pencil.

See yesterday's here.

Brownian Motion

Brownian Motion or Feeding Time, Gulls behind the boat, by Mary
Stebbins Taitt. In 5 x 8 Moleskine as part of Moleskine Exchange,
Hennie Mavis's Mole.

See photo montage made for this piece here.

Confrontation

Confrontation, by Mary Stebbins Taitt. Done today in Bagelboy's Moleskine as part of the Moleskine exchange. Gesso, watercolor, watercolor pencils, colored pencils, ink and salt.