"Snowstorm Cardinal"
by Steve Ausherman

Sketchbook drawing.
2015
Watercolor and ink.

"Sick Bed" (Fever Dreams)
by Steve Ausherman

Handmade Card
2015

Card created with collage elements
of handmade cards, cheap stickers
and a picture from a 1950's child psychology book.

This image reminds me of being sick as a kid.
Weird dreams bought on by fevers.
My mom nursing me back to health.

"Letter Carrier"
by Steve Ausherman

Handmade card. 2015

I created this collage with decorative paper,
cheap stickers
and a picture from a 1950's
child psychology book.

"Blue Jay #1"
by Steve Ausherman
2015


I have been working in my sketchbook.

2015 has been a year of bird sketches, and collages, so far.

Thin paper taped to my sketchbook page.
Thin-tipped art pen.

"Blue Dress Protection"
by Steve Ausherman

Handmade card.
2015


I created this card with decorative paper, an old drawing from my niece
and a cancelled stamp.

"Speckled Boy"
by Steve Ausherman

Handmade card.
2015

"Tools and Traps"
by Steve Ausherman

Handmade card.
2015


Collage created with postage stamps
and an illustration from a reptiles and amphibians book
on how to catch turtles.

"First Man"
by Steve Ausherman

Handmade Card.
2014


This collage was created with decorative paper and an image
cut from a 1970 calendar
from the York Daily Record. 

"The Flower of Europe"
by Steve Ausherman

Handmade Card.
2014

"Munch Calligraphy"
by Steve Ausherman

Handmade card.
2014


I created this card using decorative paper,
fake Civil War-era paper currency
and an image from an entrance ticket to the Oslo Museum in Norway.
Upon the entrance ticket was placed this self portrait by the artist Edvard Munch.
My wife and I visited Norway a year
and a half ago and I kept this lovely ticket.

"Biloxi Bikini Girl"
by Steve Ausherman

Handmade Card
2014




This image was created by a map I kept from the times that I went
down to the Mississippi Coast to do
post-Katrina work. The image of the girl is a Minoan painting pulled
from an old art magazine. The blue patterned paper reminded me of foaming waves.

"The Currency of Flight"
by Steve Ausherman
Handmade Card
2014

"Industrial Revolution Dog"
by Steve Ausherman

Handmade card.
2014

"Language Map"
by Steve Ausherman
Handmade card.
2014

This is another collage using atlas pages, Norman Rockwell calendars and ink. I like the image that Rockwell painted of himself here. I like that image of a person looking out of a window...the eternal stance of poets, painters, writers, thinkers and artists!

"Play it with Feeling"
by Steve Ausherman

Handmade card.
2014


This collage was created from bits of an old atlas from the 1980's and a character pulled from  a norman Rockwell calendar. Flourishes were added with red, orange and purple Sharpie markers.

"Paisley Lips"
by Steve Ausherman

Handmade card.
2014

"Rural Geometry"
by Steve Ausherman

Handmade card.
2014

"Cali Dreaming Adobe"
by Steve Ausherman
Sketchbook Drawing.
2014

As I drank my morning coffee, our cat Cali was sleeping on the kitchen table nearby. I drew this sketch of her over a collaged page pulled out of a magazine. The page has a Robert Daughter's painting of the Rancho de Taos church upon it. This sketch includes many of my favorite things....my cat, an image from northern New Mexico and a beautiful painting within it.

"Love Dots"
by Steve Ausherman

Handmade card.
2014


"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."

Elbert Hubbard

"Wind in the Flag"
by Steve Ausherman

Handmade card.
2014