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letter to earl revisited

letter to earl revisited

by | Oct 28, 2020 | collage, painting

some years ago i used a letter addressed to earl pontius with a series of paintings. now i decided to use another letter as the backdrop for a different set of painting, electronically. the letter contains this message from mother ida pontius to her son in the army. ...
hooked on murder

hooked on murder

by | Oct 19, 2020 | painting, photography

i watch way too many murder mysteries and have just completed poirot and miss marple on britbox. agatha christie was the most prolific writer selling more books than any other author of all time. it is amazing. so i guess i am not alone in my fascination for the...
creating actors

creating actors

by | 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...
building materials

building materials

by | 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....
100 years and still not equal

100 years and still not equal

by | 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...