Tag: Vintage Women

Meditation

  © Meditation  Mixed-media collage by Sara Pearce. Made with original antique engraving (Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, June 1888), text (First Lessons in Numbers, 1865; Spencerian System of Penmanship, 1888) and paper. Vintage parcel post zone ruler and illustrations (Art Forms in Nature; Insects & Flowers: The Art of Maria Sibylla Merian). Recycled greeting cards…

Shell Shocked

I have been working a lot with 19th century fashion plates, usually the hand-colored ones. But I liked this image of the two women in "bathing costumes" from The Delineator (a magazine published by Butterick) and wanted to create a summery collage. As the piece evolved more and more of the beach they were standing…

Olive Took To Flying Like A Bat Out of Hell

This is a small – 7 " x 5" – collage created for Cincinnati's ArtWorks annual Secret Artworks auction. It combines vintage images from a circus poster and children's book with antique text, recycled greeting cards and a recycled illustration from a publisher's book proof. Watercolor and marker were used to pump up the colors…

Thank You Card 3

This card is one of a series of collaged thank-you cards I created for the attendees of my recent bridal shower. Each card features vintage-y patterned papers leftover from previous projects, acrylic paint, and distress ink; I used harlequin, French script, and distressed square stamps, as well as a text stamp. The image of the…

Thank You Card 2

This is one of a series of collaged thank-you cards I created for the attendees of my recent bridal shower. Each card features vintage-y patterned papers leftover from a previous project, acrylic paint, and distress ink; I used harlequin, French script, and distressed square stamps, as well as a text stamp. The image of the…

Thank You Card 1

This is one of a series of collaged thank-you cards I created for the attendees of my recent bridal shower.  Each card features vintage-y paper scraps leftover from previous projects, acrylic paint, and distress ink; I used harlequin, French script, and distressed square stamps, as well as a text stamp.  The image of the flapper…

Angelfish

Hand-made collage featuring: image transfer (tape technique) of old photo, old postcards from Yosemite National Park, the spine from a book of fairy tales from the late 1800s that I couldn't bear to throw away, text snips from various books, a random red piece of vellum paper, patterned paper, and dye inks. — 8" x 10"