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my art at Duke Raleigh Health Center

tm — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:21:53 +0000

Pigment prints from my Luna & Insect Machine series are in Duke’s permanent collection and hang in the Duke Raleigh Eye Center.

formula no. 7

tm — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:30:42 +0000

formula no. 6

tm — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:34:15 +0000

formula no. 3

tm — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:23:38 +0000

New series. Eight collages. On flickr. In my etsy shop.

10th international collage exchange

tm — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:59:59 +0000

The 10th International Collage Exchange is now online at http://virtual.tart.co.nz/. Dale Copeland, the organizer and collage evangelist, puts and amazing amount of work into these exchanges. 159 artists, each sending in 13 collages, and somehow Dale keeps it all straight.

flight plan, digital + gocco

tm — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 02:46:17 +0000

(Argh! I’ve been a terrible blogger! Family & day job stuff has been filling the parts of my brain that apparently I use to blog… Please accept my apologies!)

I spent the weekend working on a new print, Flight Plan. It’s a bit of digital + gocco fusion. The background beige image (which is a photo of an old, slightly yellowed, linen sheet) and the spatulas and button were printed digitally. Then the cicada was screened in green with my gocco. And the whatever-they-are diagram lines were also gocco printed. I think it’s a little weird and I like it. I post some bigger images and photos of the process on flickr.

orchid with green racer no. 6

tm — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:38:56 +0000

New digital collage. As you’ve probably surmised, it’s an orchid with green toy race cars and a button thrown in for good measure. I’m enjoying the formal arrangement in this work and the cosmic rabbit gocco print (in my previous blog post). For a simple arrangement, I spent a surprising amount of time working on this. I had the orchid and green car images included from almost the beginning with various other elements– spoons, spatulas, other buttons, a rooster… After deciding that the orchid and green cars were strong candidates for the work, I realized my existing photos weren’t cutting it. So I took new photographs of them and I’m glad I did. I just got the orchid this past weekend and even with my black thumb, I haven’t killed it yet. Lucky. (I say that in my best Napoleon Dynamite voice. Sweet.) The toy car belonged to me as a child. I have several very cool metal toy cars. This one is a Dinky. Orchid with Green Racer No. 6 is available as an 11″ x 17″ print in my etsy shop.

birds & shibori #8

tm — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 13:58:59 +0000

birds & shibori #8Originally uploaded by triciamckellar

New digital collage! The Birds & Shibori series includes digitally altered photos of my hand-dyed shibori fabrics and photos of birds around my home in North Carolina.

the thrill of new thoughts

tm — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:05:00 +0000

I’ve been working on a new digital collage series– well, actually, several ideas for new series are stewing in my head at various stages, but I’m thinking of one in particular now. Each collage in the Plans & Diagrams series uses a photo of a linen sheet as the background image. I’m planning to do something similiar with this new series. The background images will be from a 19th century engineering book– here’s a tiny preview:

urchins

tm — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 00:36:29 +0000

Yippee! A three day weekend! I’ve been photographing shells and working on a new series… just a few images are ready. They’re on flickr now; when I get the series more fleshed out, I’ll start adding the prints to my etsy shop. Life is good!