Penny Richards' photos

Freezer-paper stencil I played with today. Emmeline Pankhurst image from the Library of Congress uploads to Flickr Commons (see below).

Thrifted Lancaster leather backpack, upcycled with freezer-paper stencil, gesso, acrylic paints, sharpies. modpodge, krylon. Emmeline Pankhurst image from the Library of Congress uploads to Flickr Commons (see below).

Yasuo Kuniyoshi, printmaker, and Ruth St. Denis, dancer. From images uploaded by the Smithsonian and the NY Public Library, respectively (see below). Postcards made on recycled cardboard, with paint, ink, collage, and sharpies.

Postcards made on recycled cardboard, with paint, ink, collage, and sharpies. Original images of performers Lois Ewell and Gertrude Powys are from the Library of Congress and the State Library of New South Wales (see below).

Postcards made on recycled cardboard, with paint, ink, collage, and sharpies. Original image of opera singer Margaret Ober is from the Library of Congress.

Kept falling down because it was windy on Artesia Blvd.

Yes, it looks like a jumble. And the wind kept blowing things around. But it was certainly colorful!

The sellers at the Neighborhood Grinds Indie Craft Show today.

At the Literature.Culture.Media Slam at UCSB, 5/21/10. These were part of the presentation next to mine. Hard to compete with cookies! There were several full trays of these, I just didn't get a photo until many of them were gone.

Saw these two posters at our school open house--two Flickr Commons photographers were subjects of fourth-grade biography projects, Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams.

Each kid in this class made a life-size version of themselves, dressed in their own clothes, for the open house at our school. These are the effigies of my daughter and her friend.

I do not own this cat. He belongs to the family next door. But all day, every day, Ralph sits and watches my door, or curls up for a nap in my garden. Might be the catnip plant we're growing.

Made this for myself at the Indie Craft Show at Neighborhood Grinds today, while sitting at my table. Freeform crochet with an antique boot button to close. Thrifted cotton yarn and embroidery thread.

Maiden voyage of my May Bradford shoes was today, walked a kid to school in them. They worked for me, and they survived just fine. ;)

Postcards made from recycled pantry boxes (cookies, cereal, crackers, etc.). Painted, collaged, doodled. Images are a Romanian piper from the Ellis Island photos in the New York Public Library's uploads to Flickr Commons (see below), and printmaker Yasuo Kuniyoshi, from the Smithsonian's uploads to Flickr Commons (see below).

Postcards made from recycled pantry boxes (cookies, cereal, crackers, etc.). Painted, collaged, doodled. Images are opera singer Margaret Ober from the Library of Congress uploads to Flickr Commons, and Makareti "Maggie" Papakura, from the State Library of New South Wales (see below for originals of both).

Based on "Breathing While Undocumented," the Linda Greenhouse opinion column in the New York Times website, 4/26/2010, in which she suggests that such pins be worn to protest the new immigration laws in Arizona: "Let the good people of Arizona--and anyone passing through--walk the streets of Tucson and Phoenix wearing buttons that say: I Could Be Illegal." opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/26/breathing-while-... Made by me, with wooden bases, bar-pin backing, acrylic paint, sharpies, and paper collage.

Based on "Breathing While Undocumented," the Linda Greenhouse opinion column in the New York Times website, 4/26/2010, in which she suggests that such pins be worn to protest the new immigration laws in Arizona: "Let the good people of Arizona--and anyone passing through--walk the streets of Tucson and Phoenix wearing buttons that say: I Could Be Illegal." opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/26/breathing-while-... Made by me, with wooden bases, bar-pin backing, acrylic paint, sharpies, and paper collage.