All Blog Posts Tagged 'crane' (10)

Fleur sends a packet full of mail art collage cards,

the cats and this lovely ducky on the railing design in California,

Four mail art cards actually! wow!…

I unfolded one of the peace cranes that Katerina had made for the Peace Crane Project and made a whimsical collage for her ... all smurfy and cosmic-like! Hope you enjoy Katerina!

Hi everyone, first off I'd like to thank all of the IUOMA artists who were kind enough to send mailart to me this past year. I very much appreciated receiving all of the exceptional work that was made.  Hope to see more of your work in my mailbox as I hope to send out work to you as well.

A big thank you to all of the artists who contributed time, effort and their work to the Peace Crane and 12-12-12- End of the World Projects.  Both have been a big success artistically, and it's been…

Thank you Katerina for this card and the beautiful white peace cranes that you sent!

Our local library is sponsoring an event for people to come together to make and string cranes for this project. You can still make peace cranes because we still need about 400 more!

Received this amazing pencil on paper drawing from Jaromir Svozilik of Norway!

Recently received 4 ink drawings in which a Peace Crane was added from Dimitris Karlaftopoulos of Greece.  I'll post the other drawings soon!

Dimitris Karlaftopoulos website

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The response to the Peace Crane Project has been fantastic!  As of today, I have received several dozen peace cranes and more are on the way.  People have been very enthusiastic and their peace cranes are beautiful.  I'm sure that the spirit that went into making them will be felt by people in Japan when I send them.  Thanks to all!  If you are interested in making peace cranes for this project, go to the Peace Crane Group here at IUOMA…

I've thought of an idea that I'd like to share with fellow artists.  Perhaps each of us could make one origami "Peace Crane" which we could send to a contact person in Japan. There's a story that's told in Japan which says that if you make a thousand Peace Cranes, a person or persons will be healed.

They're very easy to make and you can find instructions on how to do so from dozens of websites. If you can't find instructions, send me a message here and I'll give you a copy of…