my yiayia

my yiayia

portrait done in procreate with turpentine brush i really love this photo of my grandmother, i think it’s her passport photo when she came to the united states in 1969, which would have made her around 62 years old. i’d like to do another portrait with...
rounder

rounder

i made a few collages using paper and real pages, real magazine cut outs and real paint. but i don’t have access to the supplies and i really wanted to experiment with some more of the same style. i downloaded images from life magazine covers, and book pages...
dresses

dresses

since the studio is still off limits, i am working on the ipad a lot, keeping busy while recuperating. i am not sure if i like this layered dress idea and abstracted faces. i’ll have to do some more to see where this goes.  i also like this direction, so...
round two

round two

sept. 7, 2021, second surgery to reconstruct my breasts after cancer. this time the results gave me a more round shape, which is good. the doctor said she would do a bit of liposuction to get some fat to fill in some crater area and wrinkles from the mesh. i had no...
while my studio is still closed

while my studio is still closed

so the roof leak is fixed, but we’ll need a new roof… getting an estimate is taking a long time, so until then i will not have access to the studio.  instead, i am trying some water color “painting” on the ipad in procreate. i really like the...