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...
by Patricia Sahertian | Sep 18, 2020 | collage, stamps
friday: so i was feeling like i was doing my collage of flopsie’s letter a disservice to use elements that were not of the period and i made four new designs using only period based ephemera. for the text i used a book that was published in 1888, from a story...
by Patricia Sahertian | Sep 17, 2020 | collage, coloring, corona virus series, stamps
thursday: søket etter nancy drew, the search for nancy drew. yesterday i found i had an old nancy drew mystery, but in norwegian. i thought of what nancy might have been like as a girl, and dug through my photos to find some old images. i drew these from the photos,...
by Patricia Sahertian | Sep 10, 2020 | collage, corona virus series, stamps
wednesday: after talking to my sister-in-law about ken burns new series “the national parks” i knew i had some maps of them. i put these together with some text from an old children’s reader that talks about birds and dogs and bears. i added the...
by Patricia Sahertian | Sep 10, 2020 | collage, corona virus series, stamps
wednesday: an american icon vs a very english one. in our american tale of hero we have dagwood bumstead, disowned by his wealthy family because he fell in love with blondie, a flapper. Protagonist Wilfred of Ivanhoe is disinherited by his father Cedric of Rotherwood...
by Patricia Sahertian | Sep 4, 2020 | collage, corona virus series, stamps
friday: how do you make things out of all disparate parts? i have so much paper, old books, magazines and ephemera. it would be nice to use them up. but of course before i do that, i have to look at images on the internet (really i am making an excuse to waste some...
