Collage Sketch for Sick at Xmas

Sketchbook: Collage Sketch for Sick at Xmas. Mixed media on paper, 2011 by Sarah Atlee.

The finished painting:

Sick at Xmas. Acrylic on canvas, 16 x 17 inches, 2011 by Sarah Atlee.

  I tend to feel poorly during holidays and vacations. It's as though my body notices that I'm relaxing and concludes that I have time to focus on my sinuses or whatever. My mother and I think it's a family trait.

Much of the preparatory work for my 2011 show Figure and Ground was done during and shortly after Christmas 2010. While I was sick. Take that, sickness! Oh, snap.

Sketchbook: Turnoff Vessel

Sketch for Turnoff Vessel (unrealized painting). Colored pencil on paper, 2011 by Sarah Atlee.

Sketch for Kitty Kitty Cowboyed Up

Sketch for Kitty Kitty Cowboyed Up, ink on paper, 11 x 8.5 inches, 2010 by Sarah Atlee.

I worked on this sketch while my mother was in the hospital with a broken leg. Nothing like the solitude and boredom of waiting in the ER all day to drive my mind to creative distraction.

The finished piece:

Kitty Kitty Cowboyed Up, acrylic on canvas, 16 x 14 inches, 2011 by Sarah Atlee.

Forms of Inquiry Notebook Cover Collage, 2004

This is the cover from a notebook I used in a graduate seminar at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Can a notebook cover be a work of art? Heck, why not? Decorating mundane objects from daily life differentiates them from one another, plus it's something to do.

I'm no Lisa Frank, but seeing this collage does bring back fond memories of my time at RIT.

Mellifluous Moue Collage Sketch

Mellifluous Moue sketch & mask collage, mixed media sketchbook pages, 2009 by Sarah Atlee. Some rights reserved.

Collage sketch for Mellifluous Moue, Patron Saint of Vocabulary.

Here’s the final drawing: