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 | 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 | Aug 19, 2022 | coloring, genealogy, painting, photography
breaking away from my two layered style with “fragments” i was totally experimenting with this one. i made 4 layers of color and worked over each after removing the original photo. this is a cherished photo of my grandpa playing with me and my cousin...
by Patricia Sahertian | Apr 21, 2022 | painting, photography
fragments revisited is a continuation of fragments of women in america. i usually just do the parts of the image that is the body without the clothes, but i also like the clothes themselves and in this case “painted” the clothes on separate layers in procreate so that...
by Patricia Sahertian | Apr 21, 2022 | painting, photography
getting back to using acrylic paints i printed some close ups from another set of photos, painted over and covered with matte gel medium. because i could not come up with a name for these, i called the set “words escape me”. small 3 x 3 inch paintings are matted in...
