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Patty Tran
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Radiant Hall studio artist, Urban Sketchers Pittsburgh admin, organizer for AAPI Women and Nonbinary People in Pittsburgh, member of Pittsburgh Collage Collective, intermediate karate student! In addition to art, you may also see food/travel photos here.
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Last chance to see my show at Commonplace Coffee Rockwell Park today! I have larger works hanging on the back wall and small items on the baked goods counter. Address is 7514 Thomas Blvd. in Pittsburgh. I’ll be there to hang out for a bit starting at 4:00 and will deinstall at 5:30.
October 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Made a few bowls today. Also trimmed my pieces from last week that are mostly dry (greenware) and the third photo is of my first three pieces after they were fired (bisqueware).

#pittsburghartist #pghartist #ceramics #pottery #art #learning
April 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Played with polymer clay and made a beaded stretch bracelet last night.

The green and blue nuggets are beads and I’m planning to make two necklaces with the beads in the middle and chain extending up. What is the consensus on how to finish/seal polymer clay for wearing against skin? Please advise!
April 16, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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An upside down box that held bananas is on the ground by the curb. It has two circular holes and a rounded triangular hole below them making it look like it has a face.
April 13, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Used a slab roller and made a trinket tray as well as three bowls using two different molds. Trimmed my three pieces from last week too.

#pittsburghartist #pghartist #art #ceramics #pottery #clay #learning
April 12, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Watercolor + gilding play!

#pittsburghartist #pghartist #art #mixedmedia #watercolor #gilding #experimentalart
A watercolor painting depicting corals, seaweed, a rocky ledge, and some abstract fish. There are copper gilding flakes in the water and a variety of gilding flakes in the rocky wall on the left, as well as in clusters towards the bottom. Same image as the previous one, but taken so that the paper fills almost the whole frame. The lighting is different and some flecks of gilding are reflecting light.
April 11, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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I used a pottery wheel for the first time today. Really enjoying Intro to Ceramics so far!

#pittsburghartist #pghartist #ceramics #pottery #learning
April 4, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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It’s done and I’m on my way to the Children’s Museum to drop it off!

#pittsburghartist #pghartist #art #mixedmedia #cyanotype #monoprint #acrylic #collage #botanical #flowers #fern #blue #monochromatic @pghkids
A 24” square piece of art in different shades of blue with various botanical elements Closeup of faux flower stem, collaged cyanotypes, and colored in monoprint Closeup of ferns and raindrops Closeup of cyanotype flower and grass cutouts
March 31, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Please join me on Sunday 2-4p to celebrate the closing of my show at Silver Apple Gallery located at 255 Main St.! I intend to bring additional art to see/purchase including my prints from Intro to Screenprinting and more glass brooches. There will also be some light refreshments! Hope to see you!❤️
March 29, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Worked on this some more. The white areas will be painted or colored in.

#pittsburghartist #pghartist #art #mixedmedia #cyanotype #acrylic #monoprint #printmaking #collage #coloredpencil #flowers #botanical #blue #wip #creativereuse #newfromold
March 21, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Another piece in my show at @silverapplegallery. (Pending sale!) Show ends March 30th at 4:00. Closing porch party that day from 2-4!

Vintage reclaimed metal grate, vintage wallpaper, nails, sandable hard gesso on reclaimed wood.
My left hand holding a small square reclaimed wood panel with a green foliage vintage wallpaper under an off white/cream painted reclaimed metal grate secured by nails
March 21, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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My blue monochromatic piece for the Children’s Museum in progress. Having a great deal of difficulty deciding which elements should stay and where they should go. I’m considering including other new and/or older cyanotypes and monoprints too… as well as other objects and blue Model Magic!
March 21, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Here’s another new piece you can see in my Silver Apple Gallery @silverapplegallery show. I made this with tin, nails, and acrylic on an MDF panel earlier today.

#pittsburghartist #pghartist #art #tincollage #mixedmedia #hearts #creativereuse
The artist’s hand is holding a white square panel made of MDF. There are four hearts on it made of tin with various floral prints nailed to the panel. White paint was added around the hearts.
March 17, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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I made this fused glass rainbow at Pittsburgh Glass Center @pghglasscenter . Manny built the shadowbox frame for it using the dimensions I gave and I painted it and put a wire on the back. I’ll be installing this in my Silver Apple Gallery show this afternoon! Show ends Sunday March 30th at 4:00.
March 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Low contrast cyanotype from 2023 that I added white acrylic ink to last month and showed at Spinning Plate Gallery. Currently in the process of going over all the white with light blue Posca. I’m going to cut this up and use it in my blue monochromatic piece for the Children’s Museum.
March 16, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Today was the last class of Intro to Screenprinting at Pittsburgh Center for Arts & Media. I’m definitely considering taking the intermediate class in the future and doing some printing on my own.

#pittsburghartist #pghartist #art #pittsburgh #screenprint #printmaking #bridge #learning
March 14, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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After and before of my new batch of fused glass fired at Pittsburgh Glass Center!

#pittsburghartist #pghartist #art #glass #glassart #fusedglass #wip #fusedglassjewelry
March 14, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Used my new UV light for the first time to make cyanotypes and played with some turquoise acrylic ink.

#pittsburghartist #pghartist #art #cyanotype #botanicalart #blue #ink #abstractart #wip
Cyanotype of baby’s breath flowers Cyanotype with eucalyptus, a fern, a flower I don’t know the name of with multiple blooms on the stem and delicate dill-like foliage, and baby’s breath Cyanotype made using a handmade (not by me) paper with lots of fibers and open spaces Turquoise acrylic brushstrokes over white sandable hard gesso on a tan paper
March 8, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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Yesterday at Pittsburgh Center for Arts & Media I screenprinted my first multilayered prints! I also had fun using up the leftover ink by spreading it around via squeegee, spatulas, and my fingers. The hippo is a figurine with a bobble head on a shelf at my karate dojo, Isshinryu Karate Academy.
A screenprint of a red hippo figurine with white, black, and gold accents. A misprint of the previous hippo, missing areas of red. A mostly red background with several curved lines in gold. Squeegee pull with leftover black ink.
March 6, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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In progress, nothing’s glued down.

#pittsburghartist #pghartist #art #blue #mixedmedia #assemblage #wip #workinprogress #reuse #creativereuse
A blue shadow box frame with various shades of blue things in it (mat corners, random plastic, faux flowers, MDF or Masonite scrap, cable). My messy studio floor and disorganized shelf can be seen around it.
February 26, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Some of what I did today in the studio.

#pittsburghartist #pghartist #acrylic #gesso #wip #workinprogress #art #reuse #creativereuse
A small vintage chalkboard with the numbers 1-0 across the top and the alphabet around the other sides. The black background was painted with white gesso and scratched into with many small lines. Seven white shapes made of reused/reclaimed plywood painted with gesso. A folder with a layer of brown acrylic mixed into coarse molding paste and gesso over top. The brown shows through in some areas.
February 24, 2025 at 4:11 AM