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...
by Patricia Sahertian | Sep 17, 2020 | collage, coloring, corona virus series, stamps
thursday: søket etter nancy drew, the search for nancy drew. yesterday i found i had an old nancy drew mystery, but in norwegian. i thought of what nancy might have been like as a girl, and dug through my photos to find some old images. i drew these from the photos,...
by Patricia Sahertian | Sep 14, 2020 | collage, coloring, corona virus series, ipad, painting
monday: i spent most of the day working on these collages. i did a series of 12 drawings on the ipad, based on collected photos. then i pulled pages from an old handwriting analysis course book and printed the images onto the pages. i added wallpaper swatches for...
