June 2016 Blog Posts (179)

I got this TERRIFIC and very simplistic hand-painted Ray Johnson Bunny postcard from Nadia Aroca of Barcelona, Spain...

"Ooooo..." I exclaimed, imitating the single letter on the postcard. "What could that mean?" I wondered.

Well, I must confess, I've been doing some historical research for a writing project...which includes historical…

Very creative output by Debra. The swirl image at the far right of the "double cherries" postcard appears to be a self-carved rubber stamp image. Interesting how it mirrors the "question mark" on the other postcard! Here are close-ups of each post card along with their reverse sides, which were just as creative and which alo used some antique postage stamps…

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Wonderful cut-ups from Cheryl in South Africa:

The original painting piece is above and photo of the whole painting in lower section.

Cheryl has cut-up may of her paintings and sent them out-in-the world,

as postcard size…

A new format for this collaborative book series,

the contributions now are postcard size, and in a clever "envelope" edition:…

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So here he is playing...

mean? "Take That"...on the nose!

poor KitKat (which happens to be a tiny tiger?) awwww:…

Yup... I received number 334 out of 365-and-a-half...and I'm super thrilled to have made the cut on Stripygoose's massive bird mailing. As Stripygoose's bird drawings go, this one's a champion! I love it and its feathery details!!!

Details about my particular bird were on the backside of the artwork...…

Toni Hanner sent this lovely collage in a crafty handmade envelope—very spring-like to suit the season...

A closer look at the collage work...

Terrific!  Thank you,…

Chris Well of Faint Press send me an amazing collage/painting as well as some poetry. Mmmmmm....great stuff.…

Something arrived in a pretty amazing envelope. It was a large envelope completely covered in zentangle design. I couldn't tell if it was Sarah's work directly, or if it was a pre-printed design. But even if it was pre-printed, it took an artistic eye to turn it into a fancy envelope...full of even more delightful surprises...…

If you're interested I've posted the other submissions on my blog.

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Wonderfully and subtly textured collage.  Thanks!

I had a couple "conversations" with Keith Bates that got me thinking about the validity of email art. And I'm thinking that making temporary mail art, that only exists via a scanned image then sent through the interweb, makes people's electronic mail boxes just as happy as their physical mail boxes getting mail art. Oh that's convoluted, but you get what I'm getting at. SO…

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Spring envelope, and

 with washi tape!

Good to see Brooke in the mail, always fun mail art..."poison"?…