All Blog Posts Tagged 'SouthAfrica' (35)

Very lovely envelope arrived from South Africa today.

Inside was a fine print on tissue paper:

and a bit of…

A wonderfully decorated envelop arrived from South Africa! (Mountain stamp!)

Many lovely detail, Petal, thank you! Fun doggie:…

Stunning RED envelope arrived from South Africa

Amazing postage stamp as well...with beautiful rock…

Above, from CHERYL PENN

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You just know that it is a packet full of wondrous treasures from Cheryl Penn:

And it is....poetry, art, ...and Zine #2: The World a Town!…

So happy to receive once again beautiful drawings from Lesley!

Her art is amazingly expressive, drawing from models and 

capturing the essence of the human spirit.

Perhaps using the 9B graphite from Paris ,…

The "nine b club" or the "9B Club", consists of members who have discovered the whereabouts of 9B drawing pencils and/or 9B graphite sticks! ...and they use them, of course! Lesley Magwood Fraser has used a 9B pencil to create these amazingly dynamic portraits! And I am thrilled that they arrived today in amazingly dynamic Greece! …

Beautiful, colorful fish and tribal beads on the stamps are a sure sign of wonders in the mail box from Cheryl Penn!

There were only these three pieces in the mail today...all three from Cheryl. What a great Mail Art Day!

The painted ZALOP envelope is in reply to the ZALOP I sent.

This is full of color and "music" on the reverse side, too:…

Here come the Minoan gals, right from the Island of Crete ...what happens when a few old Greek postcards are found in south Africa? Well, Lesley turns them into very wonderful and artisic collage-altered-postcards!

The greek island and South Africa behind…

Snootie-dark-guy in my olive tree today, as if we have to fear strange winter creatures crowding in on our HOT summer days STILL in Greece! An amazing print, on reserse side, too, only on transparent plastic:

Ya gotta love this guy...he looks all…

Coming in with the last mail delivery before Greek Easter holidays is this ZALOP...and very 'Sewn Asemic" mail art from Cheryl. The stitching is so involved and is overlapping clear plastic that is overlapping more asemic writings:

layers of meaning!…

And so, a small piece of one of my bloved Pollock paintings has found it way

to Greece, and now occupying an honored place along with a certain ninja yelling…

That was delightful Number 1...when Marilyn interfered ;-)

Then came the PUZZLE...scramble...complexity...choices...THANK YOU for this…