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 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. ...
by Patricia Sahertian | 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...
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 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...
