by Patricia Sahertian | Apr 14, 2021 | cancer, coloring, ipad, painting
“you have cancer.” no matter where it is, or how treatable it is, it’s just a scary statement. at the end of 2019 i had my first encounter, a mild one, a ductal carcinoma in situ in my right breast. surgery was required, but no chemo or radiation and i felt lucky. in...
by Patricia Sahertian | Dec 16, 2020 | coloring, ipad
my idea of family portraits, here’s my parents, me and my brother. this is my granddaughter. view...
by Patricia Sahertian | Nov 18, 2020 | coloring, ipad, painting
derivative of “Caguas, Puerto Rico. Homeless people sleeping in the hallway of an apartment house”, from the library of congress, modified in procreate. still working on some kind of art of the depression era/past. i don’t really know...
by Patricia Sahertian | Nov 16, 2020 | collage, coloring, ipad, painting
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...
by Patricia Sahertian | Nov 10, 2020 | coloring, ipad, painting
while looking through depression era photos at the library of congress online, i came across this image of two poor boys in mississippi. i drew them in layers in procreate. i almost was going to add more color to the background to eliminate some of the white, but then...
by Patricia Sahertian | Nov 2, 2020 | coloring, ipad, painting
once in a while things really veer off from where i thought i was going. in this series i was going to pretend that my “actors” were part of a mystery plot. but as i began to think about the real story that i am going to base my fiction on, i decided that...