Joan Colbert

@joanc.bsky.social

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artist • reader • gardener • progressive

Relief print (linocut) as paper is pulled away from the block . . . the moon and swirling chimney swifts
Low growing hellebore blooms, reddish purple with yellow stamens, in an early spring garden. Lenten Rose, Helleborus orientalis
Three images: open studio door (pink with black crow) - graphic with building and public hours - graphic for ArtWalk
artwork by John Sokol: poppies, painted turtle, a dog bowl on an ochre/green background with writing: 'another day another dog bowl' and a mixed media barn owl in black and grey with a touch of gold
restaurant table with condiments and glass enclosed soft sculptures of bedtime Ron and Nancy - patriotic, red, white, and blue flag motif slippers?
A stack of books necessary for (re)reading in these times, including Sarah Kendzior’s The View from Flyover Country, Hiding in Plain Sight, They Knew, and The Last American Road Trip, along with Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny
Series of relief print process images: linoleum carving, inking, and printing
Brown and tan mushroom. It has a shaggy cap with dark brown flecks, mainly in the center. Trick. . . or treat? Even though it appears to be a Shaggy Parasol Mushroom, Chlorophyllum rhacodes, that recently popped up in the garden, some deception might be afoot. Chlorophyllum molybdites, the False Parasol, is a look alike, so common in yards and gardens that it’s the most eaten poisonous mushroom in North America. Also called the Vomiter Mushroom, it’s generally not fatal, though victims can expect to feel like death. Happy Halloween!
Penny, the basset hound, pauses during a walk on the Towpath Trail alongside the Cuyahoga/Little Cuyahoga Rivers. The clear blue of the September sky is gorgeous; there's a hint of autumn even though leaves are still green.
Black and white line drawing of rabbits watching a horse-drawn cart, followed by Toad, Rat, and Mole, pass by on a lovely spring day. 'Waving rabbits said, "Oh, my! Oh, my!"'
Black and white relief print of pokeweed with an alligator lurking below.
People and signs line the street for the HandsOff rally
Eastern cottontail rabbit gathering and carrying dried grasses for her nest.
PAX screenprint by Stanley Donwood from a 2022 fundraiser for Ukraine - a blue and yellow version of the earlier CNUT/Canute linocut, matted and framed.
PAX, a blue and yellow screenprint by Stanley Donwood, inspired by King Cnut the great (Canute) ordering the waters to recede.
magical rabbit as a spirit animal within its own spherical landscape with rising sun and orbs; fanciful palette of greens, golds, and earth tones
They did, however, chatter about another piece of Boomer's, something the museum apparently had purchased out of the Sommervell show. It was, as they described it, a huge, welded steel coathanger, maybe six feet long. Folded over its bar was a flat, deflated skyscraper, sewn out of canvas, its windows, entranceways, and other architectural features painted on. The piece was hanging from the ceiling, and there was a card on the wall that listed Boomer's name, the materials he had used, and the title. The title was Donald Trump's Pants Come Back From the Cleaners. "Obviously," said Ellen Cherry, in a mock Ultima accent, "it's fraught, simply fraught, with significance."
Painted Stick, Dirty Sock, Can o' Beans, Conch Shell, and Spoon - characters in Tom Robbins' Skinny Legs and All
Cheeto, the orange tabby cat, curled up with front paws over his tail for a little catnap
A black and white relief print of a little black mole, dressed in a herringbone vest and muffler, happy to be 'home sweet home'
Three relief prints (linocut) of large castor bean leaves and background umbrellas and raindrops; mainly black & white with red accents
A castor bean that is nearly 12 feet tall with umbrella-size palmate leaves.
Basset hound with a background of autumn trees, a river, and blue sky
a basset hound next to the Cuyahoga River on a lovely autumn day
northern lights in northeast Ohio
darling baby basset hound
Woodcut of mother and children with urban background by Antonio Frasconi to accompany Langston Hughes' poem, Let America Be America Again
Woodcut images and type by Antonio Frasconi
sidewalk leaf shadows with crescent lights from the 2017 solar eclipse