by Patricia Sahertian | Sep 6, 2020 | coloring, corona virus series, painting
sunday: today i wanted to represent an asian woman in the fragments collection, but i don’t have any in my old photos box. so i went online to library of congress. view collection i also painted this...
by Patricia Sahertian | Sep 4, 2020 | collage, corona virus series, stamps
friday: how do you make things out of all disparate parts? i have so much paper, old books, magazines and ephemera. it would be nice to use them up. but of course before i do that, i have to look at images on the internet (really i am making an excuse to waste some...
by Patricia Sahertian | Sep 1, 2020 | collage, corona virus series
monday: what does a bunch of bulls and a few cocks represent? my goal was to depict greed, corporate power, a liar for a president and the downfall of democracy. i used these vintage images and printed them on a deed that was given to me by mary leto. there were about...
by Patricia Sahertian | Aug 27, 2020 | coloring, corona virus series, ipad, painting
thursday: using vintage photos i started to paint the image of a women and worked only on her skin and hair. i used procreate on the ipad and the gouache brush. i had experimented before with layering two separate drawings onto one to enhance and give depth to the...
by Patricia Sahertian | Aug 26, 2020 | collage, corona virus series, stamps
wednesday: we keep hearing about russian interference in the media. i wonder why can’t something be done about this? if we knew this was happening in the last election, why is it still an issue? here’s my response. old russian language book, a couple of...
by Patricia Sahertian | Aug 24, 2020 | collage, corona virus series
monday: i worked on this series last week, starting with found magazine article on mental illness in the 1950s. it made me think how women were portrayed in that era and how behind the scenes, at home, in treatment and in hospitals there was so much abuse. view...
