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magda part two
friday: this is the second series that i have done using documents that were given to me about a woman named magdolna ven, who was born in hungary. this time i wanted to repeat the use of roses, but instead of adding maps as previously, i used european paintings from...
fragments
thursday: using vintage photos i started to paint the image of a women and worked only on her skin and hair. i used procreate on the ipad and the gouache brush. i had experimented before with layering two separate drawings onto one to enhance and give depth to the...
put up your dukes
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 old stamps...
selling perfection
monday: using an ad from the stanley brush company of the 1930s we can see what was being sold to women and how they were made to feel they needed all these products. i used blue card stock as the background and mod podge glue for these. i need more glue sticks.
mind handlers
monday: i worked on this series last week, starting with found magazine article on mental illness in the 1950s. it made me think how women were portrayed in that era and how behind the scenes, at home, in treatment and in hospitals there was so much abuse. If a woman...
experimenting with brushes
using procreate on the ipad i am trying different brushes to see which ones i like, also trying to see how different layers look on each other. here's my work for today. first animated gif from procreate. very easy to use.
yiayia and grandma
thursday: i used the same portrait that i did the cross stitch over to make this ipad painting of my yiayia. i can see some of my cousins' features in this face. but not mine. maybe i should start a family portrait section. the ipad is fun. 1 hour later... i couldn't...
karlsplatz couple
my granddaughter gave me some photos for my birthday last year, most of which came from germany. this was a photo of a couple, it looks like they are in love and out for a day at the park. there are three photos with the woman in them. i will make this a series. my...
mabel
tuesday: working with the ipad to get to know the brushes. i used this photo, one that i have used a few times before, to try out the turpentine brush. i am very happy with the results. i used four layers. one for the photo, one for all the background and for "mabel"...
eastern block
saturday: collected photos that i think are from somewhere in eastern europe since the text on the back is in roman alphabet and not cyrillic. it was all scotch taped up like this when i got it. there is a stamp on it, but i don’t want to remove the tape which is now...
children in the summerland
wednesday: yesterday i spent the afternoon cutting up this old book from new zealand published in 1932 called children in the summerland. it's by a psychic who believes that you don't have to worry about your dead children's clothes in summerland because they will be...
plymouth lies
friday: thumbing though old history text books, this one from 1958, you find a lot of lies. stories told from the patriarchal, racist and misogynistic point of view. i used a story of the first thanksgiving, that in itself a myth, using painting of ships from england,...