IN THE TRENCHES MARY’S PAGES
Mary sent me some photos by email of what she has worked on. I am amazed and awed by her work. When ever I see what she has done it inspires me to work even harder. She is truly one of my muses and an incredibly talented artist.She has created a series of trenches...
IN THE TRENCHES PAGES 7, 8, 9 & 10
Mary and I decided that the book needed to have some facing pages that go together along with the individual pages we are creating. That made me think that maybe a line up of baby feet with toe tags would be a good idea for that, but I wasn't sure how I would...
EXHIBIT NO. NINE
Last night we had another fine get together of art and eating. By fortunate coincidence my granddaughter happened to be here and she partakes in the event whole heartedly. Her oil pastel, a still life of corks, was amazing. At the end of the evening when we read our...
IN THE TRENCHES PAGES 3, 4, 5 & 6
This week I worked on the next set of pages for the artist book IN THE TRENCHES, Hart Island, New York that I am collaborating on with Mary C. Leto. I wish she could be here with me so that I can ask her if she likes this or that element as I am putting the pieces...
ROOTS OF CHAINS
Last night my friends Margaret, Lisa and Todd came over to crochet some chains for the Mother Tree Project. It was a very relaxing evening. We had some cheeses that Todd brought over, a nice mixture from a soft ripened crème to a deep rich orange French cheddar. I...
IN THE TRENCHES PAGES 1 & 2
After making the paper with Mary C. Leto in her Moon Tide Paper studio in South Carolina I was determined to come home and make all the pages for this book immediately. Well, that was at the end of April. Sometimes I get sidetracked by work, other times by other...
EXHIBIT NO. EIGHT
The past Friday we held our almost bimonthly "art night" where a few friends come over and we eat a shared meal and then get creative. This time I wanted to work on a piece for the project "Domino Mystery". This one is 6"x6". (Mary and I have not decided quite what...
YARNS FOR THE MOTHER TREE
I will be inviting over a group of friends next week to start the chains for the "Mother Tree Project" by artist Helen Hiebert. We are using only natural fibers in earth tones as requested by the artist. These are a sampling of the yarns I purchased made up of hemp,...
CURRENT PROJECTS
"In the Trenches" collaboration with Mary C. Leto15" x 12.5" x 3.25" artist's book (edition of 3) on handmade paper, printing and multi mediadepicting the dead babies buried on Hart Island, NYCinspired by the Hart Island Potter's Field and the work of Melinda...
year: 2008
Sometimes you just sit and sit and hope for inspiration. This year I could not seem to put together a real comprehensive plan. Jake had made this fish linoleum block earlier in the year. I liked it a lot. Hmmm, what could I do with it? I was thinking of old school...
year: 2007
This year’s greeting begins with an official wren and mistletoe theme. I thought that I would put together a card that had an vintage image of “picking” mistletoe, along with a linoleum block that Jake had carved of the wren. I read that in some cases the wrenboys...
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cactus for carol
when carol asked me why i don't draw cacti, i really couldn't say much else than, i'm not really attracted to them as a source of inspiration, or something of that nature. well, since then shari has sent me an inspired cactus drawing and now i must respond to them...
building materials
using materials that were given to me by a friend, all from her father's building of their house in paradise valley in the 1960s i built the bases of these collages. there were contracts, appliance books, specs, hand written notes, blue prints and invoices. there are...
100 years and still not equal
in 1920 white women got the right to vote. it would take the civil rights movement to give black women this right. one hundred years later, we are still waiting for constitutional equality for all people. the 28th amendment, the equal rights amendment (ERA) was...
lest we forget
tuesday: i worked on these over sunday and monday, using a group of letters to vera d. bruestle in pennsylvania from 1936 to 1945. i included parts of the envelopes and parts of the letters, so that i printed an image on both to see how i wanted to use them. then i...
alice paul, suffragist
ipad painting on image of alice paul from the library of congress. Alice Stokes Paul was an American suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and one of the main leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution,...
rose winslow, suffragist 1916
ipad painting on image of rose winslow from the library of congress. Born in Poland, daughter of Polish miner and steel worker in Pennsylvania. She worked in textile mills from the age of eleven to nineteen, until tuberculosis forced her to cease work altogether for...
flopsie revisited
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 called...
george and flopsie
thursday: while i was thinking of a new idea to use up some of the ephemeria, i thought about all these letters that i have. i hesitantly took one out of the mix and ripped it up. i am now sad that i did this because it's from a collection of 95 handwritten letters...
søket etter nancy drew
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,...
as it is written
monday: i spent most of the day working on these collages. i did a series of 12 drawings on the ipad, based on collected photos. then i pulled pages from an old handwriting analysis course book and printed the images onto the pages. i added wallpaper swatches for...
drawn to food
jacob and i have been doing a food blog, we draw ingredients and finished dishes of foods we make to help us keep track of our recipes and calories. jacob started the drawings, so i continued mine in his style. we have invited kyria, my granddaughter, to join in, and...
national parks
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 wildlife conservation...
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