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...
by Patricia Sahertian | Sep 10, 2020 | collage, corona virus series, stamps
wednesday: after talking to my sister-in-law about ken burns new series “the national parks” i knew i had some maps of them. i put these together with some text from an old children’s reader that talks about birds and dogs and bears. i added the...
by Patricia Sahertian | Sep 10, 2020 | collage, corona virus series
wednesday: i spent most of the day making collages. i could have stopped earlier, but i was motivated by the fact that i wanted to finish listening to my book on audio, the eighth detective. A thrilling, wildly inventive nesting doll of a mystery, in which a young...
by Patricia Sahertian | Sep 10, 2020 | collage, corona virus series, stamps
wednesday: an american icon vs a very english one. in our american tale of hero we have dagwood bumstead, disowned by his wealthy family because he fell in love with blondie, a flapper. Protagonist Wilfred of Ivanhoe is disinherited by his father Cedric of Rotherwood...
