June 2016 Blog Posts (179)

LIGMA wrote about his experiences at the retreat in this little book -- I love receiving a copy and being allowed into his unique world. Sorry for the shine -- I put this little painting from LIGMA in a protective sheet because it's very…

William sends this to sort of "tide me over" between ATC packages. Thanks William--I love it!…

Love Ruud's envelopes, completely decorated with rubber stamp art and stickers. Inside there was an A&P and the new IUOMA membership card I had asked for. Thanks Ruud!

You totally cannot see how gorgeous these colors are -- chalky but wonderfully vivid. And I love bees! Here Lynne shares a new technique she's learned -- painting the paper, then taking an ear of corn and painting it a different color,…

This is the 4th or 5th wonderful crow Heleen has painted for me. I think I'm going to get a long skinny frame and frame them side by side. They're much to great to put away in a box! And be sure to look at the slip side.... Check out the…

Matching envelope and tall collage card from Fleur--"More Fun at the Harrison Hotel in downtown Oakland." Fleur is putting Oakland on the art map with these wonderful pieces. Does city's cultural services division know about…

And as you can see, it's a doozy! Just about every mm. of this card is covered with handwritten text. Poems insides poems, songs inside songs. The smaller size text is all cheerful, "look on the bright side, lalalalala" and so on, but…

The Power Zen from Erni Bar (signed), mounted on two book covers glued together.

And look at that barcode on the can.  I never noticed them before on cans.

Thank you Erni for the Can can.

A Heleen project or a self obsessed challenge.…

When Kurt whistles...it is DADA from Erni in Hamburg!

Erni at "Off-Scene Akademie of Hamburg" is an avid DADAist!

A small package arrived, completely covered on the outside with valuable info:…

At last, here it is, the Amy Special.  But it didn't arrive this was.  It took hard work and lots of money to pull this one off. First the money.  A whooping $13.50 to send this to Paris.  To put this in real USA terms, that's the same as buying two Whooper Meals…

New blog here -> snailmailsuus.blogspot.com

I've been researching mail art blogs for the past several weeks. Many of the sites I've found are a bit too abstract for my taste and ability but found a happy medium at Paper Tams (http://www.papertams.com/). I just learned that she will be conducting a free Mail Art class at the Miami Pen show. 

Please share your favorite Mail Art artists, blogs or events here. 

From France, Helene sends this beautiful BLUE!

and tis her birthday today, June 28 :-) Lovely card, laminated,

with BLUE postage, too:…

Thanks Erni

I sent out this little boekie to 4 folks who'd joined the Oregonians group: Terry Ownby, Maryann Battaglia, Finley Union, and Pairie Kittin, who is an Oregonian Emeritus because she's moved across the river to Vancouver, Wa. I love the things everyone did to it!…

"If Ray’s collages were like windows, they were like windows in the sense of openings which permitted contingencies to surface in walls of unresponsive and objective indifference. In order for him to preserve indeterminate immediacies, he improvised upon whatever happened to pop through a door or to appear in a window.…

Here comes a "fishy" envelope...all real Australian postage,

Sea Mail, but with stamps from the Netherlands:…