by Patricia Sahertian | Aug 20, 2020 | coloring, corona virus series, genealogy, painting
thursday: i used the same portrait that i did the cross stitch over to make this ipad painting of my yiayia. i can see some of my cousins’ features in this face. but not mine. maybe i should start a family portrait section. the ipad is fun. 1 hour later…...
by Patricia Sahertian | Aug 18, 2020 | coloring, corona virus series, painting
tuesday: working with the ipad to get to know the brushes. i used this photo, one that i have used a few times before, to try out the turpentine brush. i am very happy with the results. i used four layers. one for the photo, one for all the background and for...
by Patricia Sahertian | Aug 15, 2020 | coloring, corona virus series, ipad, painting
saturday: collected photos that i think are from somewhere in eastern europe since the text on the back is in roman alphabet and not cyrillic. it was all scotch taped up like this when i got it. there is a stamp on it, but i don’t want to remove the tape which is now...
by Patricia Sahertian | Aug 12, 2020 | collage, corona virus series
wednesday: yesterday i spent the afternoon cutting up this old book from new zealand published in 1932 called children in the summerland. it’s by a psychic who believes that you don’t have to worry about your dead children’s clothes in summerland...
by Patricia Sahertian | Aug 7, 2020 | collage, corona virus series
friday: thumbing though old history text books, this one from 1958, you find a lot of lies. stories told from the patriarchal, racist and misogynistic point of view. i used a story of the first thanksgiving, that in itself a myth, using painting of ships from england,...
by Patricia Sahertian | Aug 6, 2020 | collage, corona virus series
thursday: so thinking of periods, i have always been weirdly drawn to medical illustrations. i found these gynecological ones on archive.org and printed them over layers of old italian lesson books, italianite design and maps of rome. i wanted to express the control...
