Tom Jones again

Joan's Magnolia

The magnolias are in full flower in Detroit, but going by soon. We stopped to enjoy Sam and Joan's magnolias when we visited them yesterday and I was inspired to paint them.

This was done with three "colors," Windsor Red deep (wc), Hooker's Green Dark (wc) and white (gouache). No other paint.

Portrait of ML Liebler

Here's my latest watercolor sketch of ML Liebler reading poetry among the artwork on the Scarab Club Gallery. Click image to view larger.

a few new pieces

Two Tom Jones-style watercolors from water media class. The 1st in Ash's Moleskine, the second on arches paper.


small sketches in my personal small Moleskine

Becoming Famous, LOL!

Hi. My name is Mary. I am eight and a half years old. I want to be
famous. Today I decide to be a famous artist. My Mom lets me use her
paints. I paint a picture of myself. I am looking at a picture my
father took of me, and I am wearing the same green and red bathrobe
over my Pajamas. But you can't see the color in the photo. My
painting doesn't look exactly like me. Mom says it's called "artistic
license." Click image to view larger.

A Bird in the Hand

A Bird in the Hand, first half of a collaboration with Mike Kline in Ash's Mole. BB and I took a hike at Dodge park and at the far end, farther than we'd ever been before, we found this dead robin in some branches that looked like a skeletal hand so that's what I made it into. This is in the front of the Mole, as there aren't enough pages for everyone otherwise.

I did it in ballpoint pen and gouache.

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).