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- Affiliation:
- Patti Gibbons
- Location:
- Kingston, NY, 12401
- Birthday:
- November 10, 1957
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spent
the afternoon working on some decorative art pieces for the fair.
Mostly collage work using antique paper. Did not feel like painting
today. It was more of a "Colorforms Day" for me.
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Life as art. Finding peace in a world of insanity and bad genes. Struggle. Growth. Adventure. Camraderie. Truth. Love. And last, but not least, humor.
Catskill Paper working on a diptych for a winter show that I am in. This is the underpainting in acrylic, probably do the next layer in oils.
Catskill Paper Went to refuel my paper addiction yesterday at the Postcard show. Lots of amazing Valentines,postcards, and other historical and photographic odds and ends. Can't wait till I get into the studio for the next round.
Catskill Paper Not much time in the studio. Only enough to totally ruin and give up on one painting, and make this quirky collage, part of the Nursery Crime Series, titled "It came with Directions".
Catskill Paper Surreal photos of the day. A car ride, a camera, and Photoshop with a little imagination makes inspiration for the winter work.
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Last weekend at the Woodstock Artists Asso/Museum, I sold my painting in the show "The Other Side of the Mountain". It was a large oil of a sunset at Olana, which I had framed in a simple black canvas ...
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helpful art hint of the day, plus today's large pastel sketch of a Catskill landscape. The quickness of the exercise helped me get loose. I probably could have gotten even looser, but a lesson is learned in every art work. http://catskillpaper.blogspot.com/2009/1
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I discovered a clever way to mask off photographs when you are preparing to use them as reference for composition/sketching/ painting. Sometimes I just fold them up when I print them on matte paper to ...
Catskill Paper KBack in the studio making cards. Here is a Halloween card and a Christmas card. I have printed and hand made art cards. The Flexible Flyer card is made with an old ad from the 20's or so, and vintage flocked wallpaper...Eventually this weekends cards will make it to my Etsy store, but here is a preview.
Catskill Paper Short blog on the struggle of finding one's own voice in art. PS, my word verification is "was loftiest". How ironic is that.
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Catskill Paper also I have two pieces at the Varga Visionary Art Collective, opening from 6-8, with music at 8!!
VARGA Gallery - WOODSTOCK, New York - Representing Visionaries, Outsiders & Self-Taught Artists - Th
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extremely groovy art, Located in Woodstock, New York, the VARGA Gallery is one the premier resource for eclectic fine art in Hudson Valley.
Catskill Paper OPENINGS IN WOODSTOCK, NY TODAY. I have work at the Woodstock Art Association/Museum, 4-6 pm in "The Other Side of the Mountain".
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Since its beginnings in 1919, the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum has been committed to exhibiting and collecting work in all media by area artists and supporting the tradition of Woodstock as the "Colony of the Arts."
Catskill Paper so to jump start your morning my fans, what is art to YOU?
Catskill Paper first photo on my camera is way funky, but a little Photoshop can make almost anything interesting if you know what you are doing!
Catskill Paper Paper exhibit at the Paper Trail in Rhinebeck, NY
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I stopped into Paper Trail in Rhinebeck NY with Lois so she could buy her grandchildren gifts. Alanna's birthday is wednesday, and though I had sent off package No. 1 to her, I could not resist a Colorform ...
Catskill Paper card design taken to another level..food for thought.
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Larry sent me a link today for the a book by Barbara Hodgson titled My Card: Variantions. Limited Edition of 9 copies, only 6 of which are for sale. $2500.00 for a copy.Of course you know out came my calculator to figure that if there were 30 cards in the box, it came to 83.00 a card. ...
