Joan Ladendorf Photo:Art

The ART OF JOAN Ladendorf

A Little Bit About My Creative Journey

I am a self-taught artist who has been exploring various avenues on my artistic journey over the past 45 years. I began with theater costuming and graphic design, and then progressed through traditional quiltmaking and various art quilt techniques and styles. My abstract compositions displayed passion for shape and color, and made use of my extensive fabric palette numbering over 12,000 pieces. I then developed an innovative technique using cotton batik fabrics hand cut with scissors and assembled with a sheet of mounting adhesive. These fabric compositions featured abstract shapes and transparency effects accomplished with careful fabric choices.

Photography came next, after receiving a Canon digital camera from my sons for my birthday thirteen years ago. It was a place I had visited before, back in the old days of film and darkrooms, but the digital offered so much more. I focused on local sites, collecting thousands of images from my backyard creek, auto junkyards, the Chicago Botanic Garden, Spring Valley Nature Center, the Illinois Railway Museum, and many other great facilities. Originally used as stand-alone images, I quickly moved into using Photoshop's capabilities to combine them in layers or use as ingredients to create composite work.

Currently, I am creating what I like to call "Photo Collage." I assemble shapes drawn with the computer mouse extracted from my image collection of textures, landscape backgrounds, and from scans of my hand-painted and altered papers. I am exploring several collections, including "Fields", "Surreal" and "Animal Friends", and I am horsing around with multiple exposures (also in Photoshop--see "Cityscapes", example right). There are new pieces in the "Landscapes" section as well featuring multi-panel works. The elements are digitally assembled using Photoshop's various layering techniques, and further enhanced with dimensional effects. I have also just added a section of "Regular Photos", lest you think I can only chop things up.

Purchasing

Sizes and Prices

Any of my fine art images are available for purchase. I now accept Visa, MasterCard and Discover over the phone. Please email me with the title or a description of the image, and the size you would like to order. Prices that follow are for prints only--there would be an additional shipping charge. Contact me for additional charges for mounting and matting, or my new presentation of borderless prints fused to wood panels finished with a matte varnish.

SQUARE:

6" square $15 8" square $20 12" square $40 16" square $85 20" square $125 24" square $150

1:2 RATIO:

6 x 12 $30 9x18 $65 10 x 20 $80 12 x 24 $95

1:3 RATIO:

4 x 12 $20 12 x 36 $130

2:3 RATIO:

5 x 7.5 $15 6 x 9 $20 8 x 12 $35 10 x 15 $50 11 x 16.5 $60 12 x 18 $70 16 x 24 $130

24 x 36 $180

3:4 RATIO:

6 x 8 $15 7.5 x 10 $20 9 x 12 $35 12 x 16 $55 15 x 20 $80 18 x 24 $140 30 x 40 $200

Standard size prints are also available, but be aware that some of the image would be cropped to fit into these formats:

5 x 7 $15 8 x 10 $30 11 x 14 $55 16 x 20 $100

My work is copyrighted. My signature will appear in the lower right hand corner of the print. Much effort has been expended to show the colors as accurately as possible, but between the photography, my computer and your computer, some variation may occur. To insure colors remain vibrant, avoid hanging the work in direct sunlight. If you have any questions about purchasing any items shown on this website, please contact me by e-mail at joan@joanladendorf.com.