Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Self-portrait as a Dreamer

I am in a sketchbook exchange program and these are for the pocket in Aya's Moleskine.  The pocket is in the back of the sketchbook.  Aya's pocket says, "add dreams here" (Or something like that).  So even though I had previously done two pocket items, I did two quick little sketches of dreams for the dream pocket.

In my flying dreams, I am not always sure
if I am flying or falling.

Sometimes, I can walk through walls
in my dreams!
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These are just little, done with gouche on red-colored card stock. They don't really look me, but they look sort of like my dream self.  I am never (or very rarely) old and fat in my dreams.

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Self-portrait of the inner artist with a Nightmare Lion

Self-portrait of the artist with Lion
from the nightmare series
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This self-portrait doesn't really look like me as a child or an adult, but is mean to represent my experience and thus is a self-portrait of my inner self.  (From a nightmare.)

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Glass Walls, Self Portrait with Eagle

Glass Walls, Self Portrait with Eagle
by me, Mary Stebbins Taitt
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I dream I live in a house divided in half by glass walls.  On one side, I live my life.  On the other side . .  .