by Patricia Sahertian | Mar 7, 2021 | collage, ipad, postcards, stamps
it’s great to have an artist friend, debra, who sent me an artist’s care package. it was filled with old post cards, and stamps from indonesia, greece and ireland, among other tidbits, like some really tasty chewing gum. today i used the stamps from...
by Patricia Sahertian | Feb 14, 2021 | collage, ipad, stamps
i bought the HP Tango so that I could print my own images and embellishments that i create on the collages in procreate. it works. this is the work around. i use an 8.5 x 11 sheet of plain printer paper paste my collage materials onto it take a photo of the page bring...
by Patricia Sahertian | Nov 29, 2020 | collage, ipad, stamps
using pages of text in different languages where available, stamps from all over the world and miscellaneous papers i collaged these backgrounds. then photographed them to place in procreate and add flowers and plants and postmarks. again i will send them to moo for...
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 | 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, stamps
i made a series of children with stamp heads, randomly adding the stamps to the images. afterwards i think about the stamp and the message and what it might say, some surprise me. here i used old pages from a children’s reader, cancelled stamps and origami...
