thank you, debra

thank you, debra

it’s great to have an artist friend, debra, who sent me an artist’s care package. it was filled with old post cards, and stamps from indonesia, greece and ireland, among other tidbits, like some really tasty chewing gum. today i used the stamps from...
new printer works

new printer works

i bought the HP Tango so that I could print my own images and embellishments that i create on the collages in procreate. it works. this is the work around. i use an 8.5 x 11 sheet of plain printer paper paste my collage materials onto it take a photo of the page bring...
international stamps

international stamps

using pages of text in different languages where available, stamps from all over the world and miscellaneous papers i collaged these backgrounds. then photographed them to place in procreate and add flowers and plants and postmarks. again i will send them to moo for...
creating actors

creating actors

relying on my well used edition of USA, i decided to create the main characters that appear throughout the trilogy. dos passos interspersed these fictional characters with his stream of consciousness writing and headlines pulled from the time (1930s). i used mostly...
more stamps

more stamps

i made a series of children with stamp heads, randomly adding the stamps to the images. afterwards i think about the stamp and the message and what it might say, some surprise me. here i used old pages from a children’s reader, cancelled stamps and origami...