by Patricia Sahertian | Nov 10, 2020 | collage, ipad, painting
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...
by Patricia Sahertian | Nov 3, 2020 | collage, ipad, postcards, stamps
it is election day and i am trying to keep my mind off all the hoopla so i made some collages. i wanted to use up some stamps and created “bases” on paper. i took photos of them and brought them into the ipad, where i added roller marks, stencils and...
by Patricia Sahertian | Oct 28, 2020 | collage, painting
some years ago i used a letter addressed to earl pontius with a series of paintings. now i decided to use another letter as the backdrop for a different set of painting, electronically. the letter contains this message from mother ida pontius to her son in the army. ...
by Patricia Sahertian | Oct 11, 2020 | collage, ipad, painting, stamps
relying on my well used edition of USA, i decided to create the main characters that appear throughout the trilogy. dos passos interspersed these fictional characters with his stream of consciousness writing and headlines pulled from the time (1930s). i used mostly...
by Patricia Sahertian | Oct 6, 2020 | collage
ripped from the story in USA: the 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos: pages content: two drifters on the move selling pamphlets and racy material to make a dime, traveling through america. U.S.A. is the slice of a continent. […] U.S.A. is the world’s greatest...
by Patricia Sahertian | Oct 5, 2020 | collage, stamps
i made a series of children with stamp heads, randomly adding the stamps to the images. afterwards i think about the stamp and the message and what it might say, some surprise me. here i used old pages from a children’s reader, cancelled stamps and origami...
