A series of scientific crows, calibrating their instruments for experimental investigations.
crow black inkSOLD 🙂 corbeau laboc is for crow
The ephemera: original document 1839; original french receipt 1916; original receipt 1918; crow photography; original pharmacy label; illustrations of columns, table of the elements; vintage mechanical l drawing; ink bottle illustration.
The found objects: vintage watch parts, antique typewriter parts; antique pen nibs, vintage pewter heart pendant, vintage game piece; vintage automotive light, vintage globe hardware; antique nails; vintage stopwatch faces.
A trio of fish equipped for exploration of the ocean depths.
What discoveries await them!
The ephemera: vintage city plan of Montreal 1940s; vintage marine chart symbols; antique school book page 1895; School Atlas title page 1953; mechanical drawings 1940s; postal cancellation stamps 1930s; high quality reproductions of natural history illustrations of fish.
The found objects: rusty fleur de lys; antique stop watch parts; 1925 royal typewriter parts; antique optical lens; antique pen nibs; antique key.
Their royal highnesses strutted amongst their subjects! “Who is the fairest of them all?” they asked?
“Moi! Moi!” crie le Roi Autruche.
“Que no, soy yo!” declara el Rey Cigueña !
“Oh no, it is I, huffed the King Pheasant.
SOLD 🙂 at the Fall Studio Tour.
The ephemera : decorative papers; original letters from the 1800s; Muybridge photos, bathing beauties photo; crowns; natural history illustrations of ostrich, stork and pheasant.
As the weather turned colder the nesting instinct took over. It was time to hunker down for the long winter months to come.
Nesting under the Poppies. SOLD Nesting between the Poppies. SOLDNesting on the Poppies Sold
The ephemera: Original French documents from the 1800s; photos of crows, photos of poppy seed heads from my garden, reproductions of antique nest illustrations.
The ephemera: Fly leaf and book cover of Plan de Paris from 1947; Original vintage map projection; small diving figures from vintage Larousse dictionary, original vintage airmail sticker.
Taking the Plunge
One after another they decided to take the plunge. The world was their oyster.
The Plunge
Collage on Old Book Cover 8 inches by 12 inches
The Ephemera: Vintage Book Cover from old Atlas; Original Receipt from Paris, 1902; Original map projection from Vintage Atlas, Diving figures from vintage Larousse dictionary; photos of poppy seed heads from my garden.
The ephemera: Vintage Periodic Table; vintage receipt from a Paris Chemical Laboratory, various old papers.
The found objects: Vintage Test tubes, typewriter parts from a 1920s Royal Typewriter; tiny vintage glass bottles, vintage light bulbs (that work!), vintage switch (that works too!) , ceramic insulator tubes, small antique school ink bottle, vintage vacuum tube, wire, vintage gage,vintage tart tin, vintage typewriter bell, vintage thermometer .
Credits: Merci à mon mari Michel who helped me with the wiring so that the vintage light bulb switches on using the vintage switch and a very modern battery hidden, from view.
Pen to ink, he scribbled late into the night…everyone has at least one novel in them, and he was determined to finish his.
SOLD at the Fall Studio Tour 🙂
Octopus Ink
The ephemera: original Antique dictionary page; orginal vintage map; original antique illustration of ink bottle; high quality reproduction of Natural history illustration of an Octopus.
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