by Patricia Sahertian | Sep 18, 2020 | collage, stamps
friday: so i was feeling like i was doing my collage of flopsie’s letter a disservice to use elements that were not of the period and i made four new designs using only period based ephemera. for the text i used a book that was published in 1888, from a story...
by Patricia Sahertian | Sep 17, 2020 | collage, coloring, corona virus series, stamps
thursday: søket etter nancy drew, the search for nancy drew. yesterday i found i had an old nancy drew mystery, but in norwegian. i thought of what nancy might have been like as a girl, and dug through my photos to find some old images. i drew these from the photos,...
by Patricia Sahertian | Sep 10, 2020 | collage, corona virus series, stamps
wednesday: after talking to my sister-in-law about ken burns new series “the national parks” i knew i had some maps of them. i put these together with some text from an old children’s reader that talks about birds and dogs and bears. i added the...
by Patricia Sahertian | Sep 10, 2020 | collage, corona virus series, stamps
wednesday: an american icon vs a very english one. in our american tale of hero we have dagwood bumstead, disowned by his wealthy family because he fell in love with blondie, a flapper. Protagonist Wilfred of Ivanhoe is disinherited by his father Cedric of Rotherwood...
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 | 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...
