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...
by Patricia Sahertian | Oct 5, 2020 | collage, coloring, ipad
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...
by Patricia Sahertian | Oct 3, 2020 | collage, coloring, ipad, painting
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....
by Patricia Sahertian | Sep 22, 2020 | collage, coloring, corona virus series, painting
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...
by Patricia Sahertian | Sep 18, 2020 | collage, stamps
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...
by Patricia Sahertian | Sep 17, 2020 | collage
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...
