September 2012 Blog Posts (224)

Top is "culture shock" ; bottom is "learning about light"...thank you Guido…

Package had to be picked up at the Greek post office,

but so worth the trip! The postal clerk says "Hi, Erni"...

or did she say "Oh, Erni!" ?

Oh, Erni! You had her standing on her head!!!…

Ginny has organized a new edition of Women in the Artistamp Spotlight

and here are the 30 artistamp self-portraits of us'ins :-)

You can see the issue as an eBook, or order

a hard copy here:

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A Finnish Center in Farmington Hills, Michigan! Thank you Stephen for this wonderful, thoughtful and surprising…

See this one close up and the detail and the accuracy are amazing - thank you Suus :>)

σας ευχαριστώ!!

Cover of the first edition of Cheryl Penn's (South Africa) mail-art zine.

September 23, 2012 - Like other contributors and IUOMA members who have…

Look at this Erni-Baer-package with a tribute to Mr. Dean Marks:

Thank you, Erni, what a nice surprise!…

From Carina, it's great!! Thank you!…

Many months ago I sent David a small watercolour drawing of a girl's face, which inspired him to draw over my drawing, enlarge it to a HUGE image, roll it up and send it to me in a cardboard tube..... 

What a look of surprise on her face! But on turning over the image i found a wonderful scrawly message from David, which I read almost every day as it makes me smile, I…

Diane, I don't believe you've REALLY sent me a shrink-wrapped part of a racoon????? No. I think it belongs to a stuffed animal. YES!! NO! I know you. You did that!! 

More? here…

Hello. right now I check facebook more often where I have been "friends" with many mail artists from IUOMA and others. 

You can simply like my art page if you want. Thank you.

https://www.facebook.com/artistgalicias?ref=hl

Right now I pile up many mail art from last year and I am not able to send back at the moment. I have to catch up what I have now, and then I can reply new ones. Sorry for that. And thank you…

Thanks Sue Hobbs for the French knots, Samuel Montalvetti for all this stuff, especially the sweet "Vizzolini" trashpo, and Val for another drinking souvenir!

This piece from TicTac looks as though it has come through a war-torn area! I don't know…

Fab pieces again. New blog on -> http://snailmailsuus.blogspot.nl/

Last weekend we had a lovely visit from Jack Latteman and Marnie who were in Europe and visited us in Breda too. besides the visit also some…

Hola querida Marta, gracias por participar en la apertura del Museé de la fin du monde, ya solo faltan 93 días…

The bunny is da shits ... thank you Lisa!

Guido gets his own blog post today. I don't know how he does it. A large amount of mail art leaves his door and all great quality too. Here are some…

I draw, paint and sketch most of my mail art. Here are some of the things I use:

Photo One (l to r): Colour Staedtler pens (tripuls fineliner 0.3mm), Staedtler Lumocolour (permanent 0.4mm, 0.6mm, 1.0mm, 1.0-2.5mm), Stablio Watercolour Pencils, Derwent…