by Patricia Sahertian | Jan 28, 2024 | coloring, painting
in an effort to get to know my new surroundings i volunteer at the polk county history museum. there i found, hidden in the back store room a leather bound photo album from the mid 1800s. reminding me of the velvet photo album. i could not help but wonder, who this...
by Patricia Sahertian | Dec 30, 2022 | ipad, painting, photography
experimenting with different brushes in procreate to create these “fragment paintings”. starting with a canvas of 4000 px square, i bring in a photo, add a layer and paint on some color, then close the photo layer. this used the wet acrylic brush…....
by Patricia Sahertian | Dec 27, 2022 | ipad, painting
anthony sylvestry, joey manopella, veto montalto, michael marachia, … these were some boys on the block back in the early 1960s. not sure if i am spelling their names correctly, i hung out with veto (and his sister vita) more that the other boys, they were a...
by Patricia Sahertian | Oct 19, 2022 | painting, photography
when i paint pictures of absolute strangers, i don’t know if they are gone or just forgotten. this, though, is my family. my two aunts and my father. they are all gone but not...
by Patricia Sahertian | Oct 19, 2022 | painting, photography
so the story goes that my brother got lost at coney island and here is the photo showing him looking for us, late 1950s. i am assuming the shot was taken by my dad, because he was the always the camera person. i have no idea who that man is, could he have been a...
by Patricia Sahertian | Oct 19, 2022 | collaboration, holiday cards, painting
my mother lives in NY, but she was transitioning from her apartment to my sister’s apartment, so she came out to AZ while all the details were done. that took four and a half months. so to entertain my mom and keep my hand in doing some work myself, i took out...
