Self-portrait with Johnny Norms

YAY! New sketches arrove!

Self Portrait in "Light"

well, in a light fixture

Deep in the Forest, self portrait with leaves

Deep in the Forest, self portrait with leaves, by Mary Stebbins Taitt. In Celebration of digital images, I created this by hand with dots of ink. It took a long time. Some pens worked better than others. Some wouldn't make a dot unless I moved them a little and then they made a dash. :-( Some pens made tiny dots and some made big dots. But here is is. Including a detail. (It doesn't really look that much like me, and makes me look younger than I am. It's more a self-portrait of my inner self, LOL!)

Self-portrait with haircut.

Self-portrait with haircut. I cut my hair today. I cut off more than
a foot which I will probably send to locks of love. However, I am
unemployed and they no longer provide mailing labels, so I may not.
One of these braids is from today and the other was cut when I was 14 years old.

Self Portrait at the Pinery

First morning at the Pinery. It was very cold during the night, so
cold I had trouble sleeping!

Out in the fog

Along the Milk River yesterday.

sepia variant

Me, at the quarry, in sepia.

Self-portrail with vultures

dreamland sp

The Crepuscular Emergence of the Inner Beast Self Portrait as a Coyote III

The Crepuscular Emergence of the Inner Beast Self Portrait as Coyote, by Mary Stebbins Taitt. (Only half beast during the transformation periods?)

Self-Portrait of the artist reflected in an Autumn Pond II

This is a variation on a photoart piece I did yesterday. It's a fairly
recent picture of me, not one from long ago. I enjoy doing variations
on a theme. I was considering doing another variation called the Ace
of spades and maybe one called the Ace of Hearts. Can you see where
I'm going with that? If I ever have time to play, that is.

I am expecting my mother in law for an early dinner this afternoon so
probably will not be on-line much today.

Self-portrait of the Artist Reflected in an Autumn Pond

Self-portrait of the Artist Reflected in an Autumn Pond, by Mary
Stebbins Taitt. This was done in a combination of Picasa and
Irfanview with the leaves added afterward in Photoshop. Click image
to view larger.

Me, as a cartoon

younger and skinnier than I really am.

Self-Portrait of the Artist as an Insomniac #070814-5 gold and green

Self-Portrait of the Artist as an Insomniac #070814-5 gold and green, by Mary Stebbins Taitt (for Keith Taitt and Mick Mather). This is 8A and 8B in the series (the green one is 8A and the gold one is 8B.) Click images to see larger. Go here to see more and get a link to still more if interested. By the way, each of these (all of them in the series) is different in other ways besides just color, though in some cases, the differences are pretty subtle).

Environment: In the Eye of the Man I love

For Self-Portrait Challenge: My environment: I made this for the "environment challenge" with my new screw on close-up lenses. (I have a macro too). The first one is the actual "submission" as my first self-portrait in the environment--it is a smudge painting made from a crop of the lower picture. The second one shows where it came from. If you look closely, you can see flowers (yellow irises, etc) and a pond and trees reflected in husband's eye, as well as me, taking the picture. It's the environment I love best--being with my husband in nature. Click images to view larger. I interact with the environment in part by taking pictures and making paintings of it.

On the Street: ROOM ROOM

This is my second entry for the May "on the Street" theme of the self portrait challenge.

Yes, this IS my motorcycle. I have two of them.

Juvenalia Restoration Attempt

One of my old drawing from 40 or so years ago was stuck to a painting and had disintegrated from the dampness in my parents' basement. In order to free the painting, I had to destroy the drawing, which I photographed first and then set about to restore (on a long trip, while Biker Buddy was driving.) Although the original piece was nothing particluarly exciting, I discovered that restoring it was not that simple. I learned a lot about line weight and line grace and movement which probably doesn't show in my attempt, but at least I gained some understanding (if not expertise).

On the Street

Here is my first post for the Self Portrait challenge, "On the Street." It is my mother, shortly before she died, my daughter, and I. I am the one at the top right kneeling. Not all streets are the same. (Click image to view larger.) (I have also just posted some juvenalia self-portraits.)

Although we are all smiling here, I have yet to come to terms with my mother's recent death.

Juvenalia: Self portriat by firelight

Here is another of my early self-portraits, pastels.

Juvenalia: Self Portrait with Empty Eyes 3

This is another in the series of self portraits with empty eyes from 1964 or maybe even 1963. Sometimes I liked to imagine I was an Indian (Native American) and that my hair was black with bluish highlights. None of these pictures really look like me. As I mentioned in other posts, they were more an illustration of mood and spiritual state then physical self. This one is tempera on black construction paper and was quite damaged by age and moisture (from the basement at my parents' house). If this one had a name, I don't remember it, and it wasn't labelled.

Juvenalia: Self portrait in High School

I would estimate this self portrait for 1964, but that is an estimate. It is tempera on black construction paper and somewhat damaged by time, dampness and wrinkling. I don't remember now, 47 years later, if I finished it and this was what I'd intended, or if I gave it up as a bad job or what, but it has the blank eyes of a number of other self portraits from that period.

I am attempting to post this from Picasa again (do I never learn?) so it may not post at first. If not, I may post it again, when I have time.

It was apparently copied from a photo taken by Hal Phillips. (I think the photo is probably backwards in this iteration.) (I called this "Catch her in the Rye.")

I accidentally posted this to the wrong blog. I was going to move it, but instead, I copied it, so if you see it in two blogs, that's why (I apologize).