Under the I70 Bridge, Silverthorne, Colorado

Under the rte 70 Bridge, Silverthorne, Colorado
gouache

This is the last in the series of Virtual Paintout pictures for this mole--the other two half-pictures will be different.

Virtual Paintout, Aspen, Colorado

Aspen, Colorado
the walking trail
gouache

Two more pages completed in a two-page spread.    This is another for the Virtual Paintout.  Aspen, Colorado.  I scanned the pages separately and didn't get the register quite right in the image.  Sorry.  It doesn't look like that in the book (in the center.)

Here is the google maps street view image I used to paint this from (for the Virtual Paintout).

Screen capture of street view used for painting above

Problem is, I MISSED--Aspen is in Pitkin County, not Summit County.  :-(  I MESSED UP YET AGAIN.

I used to publish things to only one blog, that is, if it was on one blog, I didn't put it on another.  The blogs had different purposes.  But now I ahve different readers on each blog, so in some instances, I'm repeating myself.  :-(  Sorry, if you happen to be one of the few who visits several blogs.

Attending a Virtual Paintout, Eureka, California

My friend Gail Slaughter who lives near Eureka California sent me a newspaper clipping about the Virtual Paintout.  I decided to try submitting, and this is the first painting I did:

Sequoia Park Zoo, Eureka California
small watercolor on Canson Paper
by me, Mary Stebbins Taitt

The instructions said to go to google maps and using the streetview, choose a view.  I had never done that before, and I thought I'd done it but it turned out to be a photo--I didn't realize it, being unfamiliar with the google maps and streetviews, until it was too late.  So I can't submit it.

So I did another one:

Redwood Highway (101), Eureka, California
by Mary Stebbins Taitt

Unfortunately, being the end of the year and the end of the month, both of these were done more hastily than I would prefer to do them.  But we are out of town visiting and I have limited art supplies and limited time.

(NOTE: we are 400 miles from home and may not be able to get on the internet!)

From the Providence of Dream

From the Providence of Dream, by me. I had another insomniac night and am tired. Sometimes, when I am really tired, I begin to dream while I'm awake. I'd say hallucinate, but it's not quite like that. This is a digitally altered fractal from Xaos.

Canal Scene, Venice

I'm fairly happy with the painting which is gouache on blue paper. I'm NOT happy with the paper, which turns out to be too thin and fragile or with the scanner which did really bad job making this look right--the paint is very reflective to the scanner light--it looks much better in natural light.

One Ski

One Ski, by me, is an illustration of a dream I had this morning. You can read the dream here, if interested. The illo is a digital composit which is further painted and manipulated on photoshop. View it a little larger by clicking the image.

Colorplay

Colorplay by Mary Stebbins Taitt. Digital painting done on Artrage.

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