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 25, 2020 | coloring, ipad, painting
in 1920 white women got the right to vote. it would take the civil rights movement to give black women this right. one hundred years later, we are still waiting for constitutional equality for all people. the 28th amendment, the equal rights amendment (ERA) was...
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 | coloring, ipad, painting
ipad painting on image of alice paul from the library of congress. Alice Stokes Paul was an American suffragist, feminist, and women’s rights activist, and one of the main leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S....
by Patricia Sahertian | Sep 18, 2020 | coloring, ipad, painting
ipad painting on image of rose winslow from the library of congress. Born in Poland, daughter of Polish miner and steel worker in Pennsylvania. She worked in textile mills from the age of eleven to nineteen, until tuberculosis forced her to cease work altogether for...
