Nancy Bell Scott's Blog Posts Tagged 'blue' (4)

Cans On Blue, from Katerina Nikoltsou

This is the second time Katerina has stitched a found can to a K.N. blue painting, but this time we have 3 at once: There the piece is, now on a wall, as it arrived in a large envelope. Katerina may have thought I'd want to cut the cans free and eventually do something else with them, but this is a work of art unto itself from Kat.'s own mail-art sensibility, and I love it. It…

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on August 31, 2012 at 3:44am — 3 Comments

Rusty lid from Greece, YES!

Katerina found and sent me this great rusty can lid: It's a beaut. It's a young one--probably hasn't reached adolescence yet--so its rusty and rusting journey through life has a marvelous freshness along with the telltale signs of time and exposure.

Does Katerina send only the lid? Noooo. She made a (blue) art card incorporating her own originally designed rusty-can-lid…

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on August 8, 2012 at 10:11pm — 4 Comments

Ahmet Demir's Marilyn envelopes via the faithful Katerina Nikoltsou

Each envelope is really interesting by itself, too. In fact the first impression was that these were abstracts by Katerina herself: Very thoughtful of Katerina, as I'd admired Ahmet's Marilyn and still do. But Katerina didn't send these empty. She never would! Each contained a very nice blue (!!) card from her: …

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on August 8, 2012 at 10:02pm — 2 Comments

A favorite from Katerina: blue sticks

Katerina Nikoltsou is so prolific, and so generous, that she is beyond amazing. Her blue art in the mailbox is always a sight for sore eyes, but this one stole my heart specially and immediately:

Why? I have no idea. The crookedness? The dots? The pick-up sticks feeling even though they look to be in nature? I just love it, and it was love at first sight. Thank you…

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on July 7, 2012 at 9:07pm — 5 Comments

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