thank you, debra

thank you, debra

it’s great to have an artist friend, debra, who sent me an artist’s care package. it was filled with old post cards, and stamps from indonesia, greece and ireland, among other tidbits, like some really tasty chewing gum. today i used the stamps from...
new printer works

new printer works

i bought the HP Tango so that I could print my own images and embellishments that i create on the collages in procreate. it works. this is the work around. i use an 8.5 x 11 sheet of plain printer paper paste my collage materials onto it take a photo of the page bring...
holidays

holidays

don’t ask me what i was thinking this year. i am not sure. with covid and quarantines and masks and no traveling, it just doesn’t feel right. so here’s a card that isn’t right either. i made 61 individual collages. this is a sampling.  to a...
international stamps

international stamps

using pages of text in different languages where available, stamps from all over the world and miscellaneous papers i collaged these backgrounds. then photographed them to place in procreate and add flowers and plants and postmarks. again i will send them to moo for...
titanic

titanic

another collage done completely in procreate. This was an image from the LOC and backgrounds from archive.org. Since they were reading the paper, i thought it would be good to have a big story. i found the titanic front page and then got a map of...
torn paper edges

torn paper edges

will i ever need a studio again? today i found brushes for procreate that make torn edges. on sunday jake and i went to the heard museum to see a new exhibit, while there i took some more photos of cacti. i made a new drawing, and instead of taking the drawing to...