Kathryns post June 29

The New York book is still a work in progress, I have used some of the photos from the trip as a base for the art work. The painting is the use of an old photo (copy of) got the idea from Lisa Bebi in Somerset Studio/May/June

Hope to finish the book by August and have a lot more pictures of my mother and her friends at school in the 1920's. Now off to Italy for two weeks. Hope to collect lots of new stuff to work with for the rest of the summer.

Joy's post.....after spending a day cleaning out my workroom , rearranging, and getting rid of stuff ( yes, I really did throw things away!) I realized my supply of cigar boxes was huge.  Shrine was the obvious answer that day.  My grandparents had an arranged marriage.  She was 15 and he 27 at the time of their marriage. Here they are with their children, my mother being the little girl.  

Gotta love the 20's clothes!  

Taking a photo copy,  collaging it, then painting over it produced this 

11x14 of my in-laws.  This technique is really fun and I now have a stack 

of photos to start new paintings with.