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 10, 2020 | collage, ipad, painting
will i ever need a studio again? today i found brushes for procreate that make torn edges. on sunday jake and i went to the heard museum to see a new exhibit, while there i took some more photos of cacti. i made a new drawing, and instead of taking the drawing to...
by Patricia Sahertian | Nov 3, 2020 | collage, ipad, postcards, stamps
it is election day and i am trying to keep my mind off all the hoopla so i made some collages. i wanted to use up some stamps and created “bases” on paper. i took photos of them and brought them into the ipad, where i added roller marks, stencils and...
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...
by Patricia Sahertian | Oct 11, 2020 | collage, ipad, painting, stamps
relying on my well used edition of USA, i decided to create the main characters that appear throughout the trilogy. dos passos interspersed these fictional characters with his stream of consciousness writing and headlines pulled from the time (1930s). i used mostly...
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...
