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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,...
what give you the right?
thursday: so thinking of periods, i have always been weirdly drawn to medical illustrations. i found these gynecological ones on archive.org and printed them over layers of old italian lesson books, italianite design and maps of rome. i wanted to express the control...
unclean
wednesday: looking for collage elements, i came across these period chairs, which made me think of menstruation. then i was wondering what goes with that? i have this old book from norway about catholic churches. i was telling my daughter about my thought process and...
little children
friday: last night i collected a few pages from an old child's primer from 1938. i looked at them over and over for ideas to come to me about how i could make them tell some kind of story. it came to me today to take away their eyes and mouths. i collaged them with...
anatomy of a letter: from denver to wolf creek
thursday: corona virus still keeping us isolated. rummaging through my resources i came across some envelopes from 1938: a correspondence to Mr. Harry Jepson in Wolf Creek Montana, from CT Peterson c/o Alexander Pearson in Chicago Illinois, and an unknown person from...
channeling JR
when we redid the laundry room there was a weird area over the sink where the paint did not stick. it bubbled up and peeled off. today jake and i created some heads from an old photo that i had collected and we pasted it up in the spot. now i love it.
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