tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87924323335714598902024-03-19T05:11:53.364-05:00JoAnn DeckMy mixed media life
JoAnn Deckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18033145337609045768noreply@blogger.comBlogger247125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792432333571459890.post-6397544379066969592013-03-02T16:27:00.001-06:002013-03-02T16:28:26.022-06:00still life photography<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 13px/18px "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">©2013<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1643176581&extragetparams=%7B%22group_id%22%3A0%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/joanndeck?group_id=0" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 13px/18px "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">JoAnn Spradlin Deck</a><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 13px/18px "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 13px/18px "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Turquoise Pods W/Glass Seeds</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 13px/18px "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 13px/18px "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Digitally enhanced<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 13px/18px "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 13px/18px "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">8 X 10 professional lab printed</span></h4>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">Subscribe</div>JoAnn Deckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18033145337609045768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792432333571459890.post-57617915406903419532012-06-29T11:54:00.000-05:002012-06-30T12:47:45.685-05:00why I think it's cool to be an artist<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">My inner artist has a keen interest in
finding ways to share my personal view of my world, and viewpoints. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Trying different methods, some more successful (at the time) then others, keeps me
moving forward, embracing my inquisitive nature. When I get bored, frustrated, tired, cranky, it’s time to refresh my creative
spirit with what ever it takes at that moment. Yes, even sprawled on the grass with the camera to get upclose and personal with a dying mushroom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">When it stops being fun, MOVE ON.
I’ve learned that after awhile I may come back and revisit what went before and
see how it helped me get to wherever I am RIGHT NOW!! I love the learning,
it’s what feeds my artist soul and gives me keener insight. Playing is IMPORTANT!!!
I try to remember it’s more about the process than the product. I must not accept niche’
identification of myself by my medium!! I am a professional artist, that sets me
apart from 100 other people who express their wish to do what I do. They
all think it’s so COOL to be an artist, they only see the ecstasy, none of the
agony. I must embrace it, run with it, LOVE IT !!! </span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Subscribe</div>JoAnn Deckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18033145337609045768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792432333571459890.post-73295540946396702982012-06-22T08:39:00.000-05:002013-03-02T12:15:41.150-06:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Pearls of Wisdom<br />
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10 H x 8 W<br />
2D Assemblage<br />
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Just finished this one in time for it to be exhibited at the Beverly Arts Center in Chicago, IL. with the Midwest Collage Society.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Subscribe</div>JoAnn Deckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18033145337609045768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792432333571459890.post-134436969338378442012-04-29T12:13:00.000-05:002013-03-02T14:24:55.494-06:00What is Collage anyway?<div>
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<span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">From <a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: rgb(59, 89, 152); clear: none; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.28; overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; padding: 0px; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none; visibility: inherit;" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>, the free encyclopedia</span></div>
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A <b style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: rgb(51, 51, 51); clear: none; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.28; overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; padding: 0px; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none; visibility: inherit;">collage</b> is a work of <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/w/132687206767020" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: rgb(59, 89, 152); clear: none; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.28; overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; padding: 0px; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none; visibility: inherit;">formal art</a>, primarily in the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/w/107483249274217" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: rgb(59, 89, 152); clear: none; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.28; overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; padding: 0px; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none; visibility: inherit;">visual arts</a>, made from an <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/w/115999911747794" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: rgb(59, 89, 152); clear: none; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.28; overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; padding: 0px; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none; visibility: inherit;">assemblage</a> of different elements. Collge may sometimes include <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/w/138776579480662" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: rgb(59, 89, 152); clear: none; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.28; overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; padding: 0px; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none; visibility: inherit;">newspaper clippings</a>, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/w/106447239386194" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: rgb(59, 89, 152); clear: none; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.28; overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; padding: 0px; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none; visibility: inherit;">ribbon</a>s, bits of colored or hand-made papers, portions of other artwork or texts, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/w/108299205858439" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: rgb(59, 89, 152); clear: none; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.28; overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; padding: 0px; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none; visibility: inherit;">photograph</a>s and other <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/w/112637832083836" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: rgb(59, 89, 152); clear: none; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.28; overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; padding: 0px; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none; visibility: inherit;">found object</a>s, glued to a piece of paper or canvas. The origins of collage can be traced back hundreds of years, but this technique made a dramatic reappearance in the early 20th century as an <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/w/112230005457685" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: rgb(59, 89, 152); clear: none; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.28; overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; padding: 0px; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none; visibility: inherit;">art</a> form of novelty.</div>
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The term <i style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: rgb(51, 51, 51); clear: none; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.28; overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; padding: 0px; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none; visibility: inherit;">collage</i> derives from the French "coller" meaning "<a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/w/115232301824387" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: rgb(59, 89, 152); clear: none; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.28; overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; padding: 0px; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none; visibility: inherit;">glue</a>". This term was coined by both <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/w/104021659633058" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: rgb(59, 89, 152); clear: none; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.28; overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; padding: 0px; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none; visibility: inherit;">Georges Braque</a> and <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/w/109157192436296" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: rgb(59, 89, 152); clear: none; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.28; overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; padding: 0px; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none; visibility: inherit;">Pablo Picasso</a> in the beginning of the 20th century when collage became a distinctive part of <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/w/107594029270341" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: rgb(59, 89, 152); clear: none; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.28; overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; padding: 0px; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none; visibility: inherit;">modern art</a>.</div>
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Techniques of collage were first used at the time of the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/w/104095122959610" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: rgb(59, 89, 152); clear: none; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.28; overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; padding: 0px; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none; visibility: inherit;">invention of paper</a> in <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/w/107769809246142" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: rgb(59, 89, 152); clear: none; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.28; overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; padding: 0px; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none; visibility: inherit;">China</a>, around 200 BC. The use of collage, however, remained very limited until the 10th century in <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/w/105672799466531" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: rgb(59, 89, 152); clear: none; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.28; overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; padding: 0px; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none; visibility: inherit;">Japan</a>, when <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/w/103758569662588" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: rgb(59, 89, 152); clear: none; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.28; overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; padding: 0px; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none; visibility: inherit;">calligraphers</a> began to apply glued paper, using texts on surfaces, when writing their <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/w/115283438487474" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: rgb(59, 89, 152); clear: none; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.28; overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; padding: 0px; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none; visibility: inherit;">poem</a>s.</div>
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<span style="color: grey;">Description above from the Wikipedia article <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collage" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: rgb(59, 89, 152); clear: none; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.28; overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; padding: 0px; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none; visibility: inherit;" target="_blank">Collage</a>, licensed under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: rgb(59, 89, 152); clear: none; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.28; overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; padding: 0px; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none; visibility: inherit;" target="_blank">CC-BY-SA</a> full list of contributors <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Collage&action=history" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: rgb(59, 89, 152); clear: none; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.28; overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; padding: 0px; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none; visibility: inherit;" target="_blank">here</a>. Community Pages are not affiliated with, or endorsed by, anyone associated with the topic.</span>orms, thus creating a new whole.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgButhoU3pTKoZB_aPTPaisb9L73hSIVTzTIwemZoSiRHotAFyF4HNLk9KVVf0dFayYTlPvLZm0nm2vk9BXpwoghmeqoTt-fO2VIIGv3IYUE4_t3GwHkZBDM3pZ9mAEJ5uwtWJONu2UN1zv/s1600/outdoorphotoshoot2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgButhoU3pTKoZB_aPTPaisb9L73hSIVTzTIwemZoSiRHotAFyF4HNLk9KVVf0dFayYTlPvLZm0nm2vk9BXpwoghmeqoTt-fO2VIIGv3IYUE4_t3GwHkZBDM3pZ9mAEJ5uwtWJONu2UN1zv/s200/outdoorphotoshoot2.JPG" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Well, the weather suddenly turned unseasonably mild and I needed photos of some paintings to submit for a medical centers unexpected call for artwork submissions with a very short deadline. Last week it was cold, windy and damp, but I diligently laid the work out on my patio and shot the photos, one by one. When the weather forecast promised us a better opportunity, I had to find a way to create a set-up with what I had on hand. What did I use? The support is a photographer backdrop apparatus I had bought used, (several years ago) for quilt shows to exhibit larger pieces with sleeves on the back. The canvas is from a roll I purchased years ago for stretching large background supports for mixed-media work. I taped a large sheet of mat board (dark side in) I still had on hand from when I used to mat my own work. Yes, I have a large mat cutter still on hand, I keep it just in case, (who knows when I might need it, right?) I used smallish folded over heavy duty tape on the back of the art to attach it to the matboard. Setting up the tripod & the camera with my laptop on top of my freezer saved time for downloading and minor editing as I went. Like are they centered with enough room for cropping? Easy to reshoot if necessary. Keeping the laptop nearby came as a suggestion from a video I just got about photographing jewelry. The only thing I have left to do now is resize the files and email them to the committee. I'm parking my car in the driveway for a few days, I have some other paintings that need documenting with better light. But the setup will easily come apart and store while waiting for another opportunity. So go ahead and see what you have in your garage/basement/studio to save $$$ and get your work posted to your FB page or your BLOG. It's not that hard, just think creatively.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Subscribe</div>JoAnn Deckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18033145337609045768noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792432333571459890.post-6957058693997351642012-03-10T07:24:00.002-06:002012-04-20T11:42:29.085-05:00Midwest Collage Society opening reception<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5QHFBEM9NfksuFAQJxPK9OhFQFskXP_5O2u3AtIl5UOA1tgvLLSdrbuQPbBb-ocrY6GKXmUWIJn7P5hf_0FZ7rdKPgUO4YxQo9b60VzWxqPoSOAoEk2OjFzOkuOlZaTEbUNQLtUcJgGxF/s1600/DSC00450.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5QHFBEM9NfksuFAQJxPK9OhFQFskXP_5O2u3AtIl5UOA1tgvLLSdrbuQPbBb-ocrY6GKXmUWIJn7P5hf_0FZ7rdKPgUO4YxQo9b60VzWxqPoSOAoEk2OjFzOkuOlZaTEbUNQLtUcJgGxF/s160/DSC00450.JPG" style="clear: both; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;" /></a>My daughter<a href="http://tlddesigns.com/"> Tammy Deck</a> and I pose next to my collage/assemblage entry "With No Forethought". Tammy is wearing one of her hand felted, attention getting scarves. There was so much interest in her felting process that she was asked by our education chair to do a demo for our group, possibly in the fall. This new exhibit will be at the <a href="http://www.addisoncenterforthearts.com/">Addison Center for The Arts</a> until April 7, 2012.<br />
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Yesterday I took these two collage pieces of art to the Plainfield Township Offices at <span class="text_exposed_show">22525 W Lockport St, Plainfield, IL. The Plainfield Art League members display some of their art work at this facility so workers, and visitors can enjoy being surrounded with original art on a daily basis.</span></div>
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It wasn't difficult to create this, but for me, time consuming. Please check it out and tell me what you think. Oh, and I needed 26 people to "like" it, then I got the definitive URL. I really like the Landing Page (click on Welcome in the left-hand column if for some reason you don't go directly there) I was able to create in Pagemondo. The recommendation to do that came from author Alyson Stanfield. If your unfamiliar with Alyson, here's the link to her BLOG: <a href="http://www.artbizblog.com/">http://www.artbizblog.com/</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Subscribe</div>JoAnn Deckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18033145337609045768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792432333571459890.post-33731192084850992902012-02-23T13:56:00.000-06:002012-02-23T13:56:11.018-06:00Judy Coates Perez on Quilting Arts<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Today I finally got to see fellow fiber artist Judy Coates Perez on Quilting Arts TV. What a great informative segment on how she develops her whole cloth textile art. Here's the link to her fabulous BLOG - Painted Threads. </span><a href="http://judyperez.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">http://judyperez.blogspot.com/</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> where you will find a wealth of info for creating your own exciting and fun projects. Today's post is very timely with a tutorial for making a basket full of </span><strong><em><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">felted eggs.</span> </em></strong><div class="blogger-post-footer">Subscribe</div>JoAnn Deckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18033145337609045768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792432333571459890.post-29810296588011445432011-12-28T21:00:00.000-06:002012-04-20T11:33:08.386-05:00Simply Strung<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">My friend Sara chose this bracelet from my inventory to give her sister for Christmas. Mary and Sara both have very small wrists, so today I resized/restrung it for her. It has a commercially made lobster clasp & ring connection made of rose gold plated copper. I hand formed the little copper spiral dangle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">with glass and metal beads . Finished this bracelet today. I did have the bead design all laid out on the bead board last night so I was ready to start stringing first thing this morning. It feels really good to finally be productive in the studio again. </span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Subscribe</div>JoAnn Deckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18033145337609045768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792432333571459890.post-70756883855513568852011-12-15T20:45:00.001-06:002012-04-20T11:38:33.745-05:00Bracelet 12142011<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKwdOmLNVqQfsdfrfTegWnpUsX9WW4hS1ArDOIfTXOKjsNrSVJPCaOFz5Hhu03ENDuUt5HxEjp6KqR45fC3i55mU6srXMEx_77eyeHN7IEAKaC3mooQ8mlCX1XtC7eHdXgIXOMIIhss2bn/s1600/P1010017.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKwdOmLNVqQfsdfrfTegWnpUsX9WW4hS1ArDOIfTXOKjsNrSVJPCaOFz5Hhu03ENDuUt5HxEjp6KqR45fC3i55mU6srXMEx_77eyeHN7IEAKaC3mooQ8mlCX1XtC7eHdXgIXOMIIhss2bn/s320/P1010017.JPG" width="320" /></a> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Finally I am back to work in my home studio. It seems like forever since I've been able to sit and work at my jeweler's bench. I made about 8 or 10 bracelets last spring (two I sold, 2 I gave as gifts to friends) and I now have determined they all need to be remade. I like them all, they have "my voice" from the standpoint of color and composition, but nothing that I feel sets them distinctly apart from what any other bead artist might do. Simple bead stringing isn't enough to make them notable and recognizable as my work. So that's my new challenge to myself. I have spent considerable time in self-study the last 6 months with books and videos and am ready to move forward. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Assemblage #218<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I have been spending a good deal of time contemplating my next step with my 2D assemblage artwork. I have many pieces packed in boxes that came back from various exhibit situations needing attention for a variety of reasons. When work goes out on exhibit at a gallery, to an art fair, or on consignment in a shop, it often returns somewhat different then when it went. In my case, it's generally the metal frames that bear the brunt of handling mishaps or environmental miscalculations. Unexpected bad weather being the greatest tragedy at an outdoor fair.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">So now, I have determined it's time to visit these boxes and see what's there and what is needed. Reworking/reconstructing the art is also a concept I am ready and willing to embrace.</span> <br />
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<b><span style="color: #006600; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">My intent in my mixed-media assemblage artwork is to develop abstract compositions. I often work in a series <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
<b><span style="color: #006600; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">and choose items one by one from my vast accumulation of elements using an instinctive sense of design. </span></span></b><b><span style="color: #006600; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Some </span></span></b><b><span style="color: #006600; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">of the objects are found; some presented to me by others and some acquired by happenstance. Many, but not all, </span></span></b><b><span style="color: #006600; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">of these elements are specially treated to alter their origin. Other collage fragments are specifically developed </span></span></b><b><span style="color: #006600; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">from artist materials with paint and layering techniques. </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #006600; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">So here's the results of the first one, it's going to a Midwest Collage Society group exhibit of collage/assemblage artwork. I'm pretty satisfied with the results. </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #006600; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">What do you all think </span></span></b><br />
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</tbody></table> I am a problem solver by nature, I want to “fix things”. I generally find a great deal of satisfaction in figuring out what’s wrong and take steps to make it better. Particularly if I work it out, or get the necessary info to determine what needs to be done and can save myself money by doing it myself. I seem to have pretty good instincts regarding what the problem might be, maybe being a single Mom and often having to resolve things myself has contributed to that. When I couldn’t fix it myself and had to call in a pro, I would hang around and watch what the solution was, and often served as the tool hander overerer. This gave me the opportunity to not only observe the fixing, but have a communication with the fixit person as to what had caused the failure. Presumably on the premise that the right info would furnish me with the necessary steps needed to avoid a repeat performance of same or similar failures. <br />
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When I was young and lived on the farm, my uncle Hank was very patient with his “city girl” niece and let me hang around him in the tool shed whenever he fixed or developed equipment needed on the farm. When my Aunt Nada wanted me to churn the fresh cow’s milk into butter and I complained about the length of time it took to churn it with a hand crank, he figured out a way to attach it to a motor to speed up the job. My aunt didn’t approve of that, mainly because her real purpose for assigning me that task was not just to have fresh churned butter, but also to get me out from underfoot in the house. Or down from my bedroom where I liked to while away the hours with my nose in a book. I loved to read and got an award in 3rd grade for reading aloud. Also, comprehension has always been a facility I’ve happily embraced my entire life.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Subscribe</div>JoAnn Deckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18033145337609045768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792432333571459890.post-6497104000548693832011-04-30T09:07:00.003-05:002011-05-19T19:38:33.542-05:00studio time conflictso many things in life seem to pull me away from the time I need to be spending in the studio. I need to reevaluate again. Morning is my most creative time. Physically and mentally refreshed from a good nites sleep opens the creative channels. I’ve often considered bypassing reading email with my first cup of coffee, but haven’t gotten there yet.<br />
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Today would have been a perfect day to fire polish the practice hole drilled pieces of fused glass, but, alas, I am required to pick up my art from an exhibit site whose travel time, (not distance) will consume a minimum of three hours. Not to mention the time required to make myself presentable to the outside world.<br />
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