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 | Mar 18, 2021 | commission, painting
so far my family has been very lucky that no one has gotten severely ill from covid 19. but i do know a good number of people who have lost friends and loved ones to this terrible virus. my friend kristin asked me to do a portrait of her friend who died. this is...
by Patricia Sahertian | Feb 10, 2021 | painting, photography
today i decided to try out my new tango printer. i bought it with the hope that i can print on my collages… but today i did a different kind of test. i photographed old images, printed them on the tango, then painted the faces with acrylic paint. i have done...
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...
