Thom Courcelle's Blog (240)

I always feel special to receive Nancy’s handiwork and art…I could say that she always seems to get better and better, but she a seasoned artist, and it’s simply that her pieces always feel “new” somehow…there is always something astonishing to admire, to fall into…

There are several things that hit the right chords with me…

How excited am I to be the lucky recipient of some mailart from Leslie Levinson? Well, LET ME TELL YOU...I'm super excited to hear from this artist in my former home of Washington State!!  Do I miss the Pacific Northwest? Hmmm....LET ME COUNT THE WAYS.  I am back on the [frigid and snowy] east coast for good reasons—family and such.  But I am always…

Who doesn't want to crawl underneath a cozy quilt or a down comforter in the heart of a bracing great white North American winter and hear mythological stories from the ravens...or get a bedtime story read by a furry-cuddly bear family?

I just went outside in the NEGATIVE 2-DEGREE-FARENHEIT (negative 19-degrees Celsius) frigid snowy landscape…

Dave Stafford tries to make me jealous with a postcard photo showing the new heights he's reached with his adventure travels...MISSION ACCOMPLISHED, MR STAFFORD!! (Looks like a good place to escape all the craziness going on in the world!)

And, I'm very glad to have some work from Mr. Ed Giecek with his new mailing address! ...One of his…

How great to get this envelope from Lulu Flanagan with rich treasures inside...

Included was a curious but mesmerizing Mandala titled "The Wild Atlantic Way: Ireland" highlighted in green watercolor. I'm sure there's a story behind it...Perhaps a recent excursion to the Green Isle?  Or dreams of an adventure abroad in bonny Ireland?  I…

Two recently received mailings from the rubber stamp-and-painting artistry of Katerina Nikoltsou...

Starry nights gazed upon from the fronds and flora of the earth. Creating awe and being astonished by night skies and the abundance of the world. Kat knows how to fill a small space with a lot of feeling and emotion (even with a minimum of color…

Coco is definitely flexing her mailart brawn! I received this amazing Fiber Mailart piece that is museum-worthy:

It appears to be all natural fibers...cotton twine creating a "weft" on cardboard, and then spun fibers woven into this miniature wall hanging. It's topped-off with a blue feather to compliment the spun and woven fibers.…

TWO envelopes of beautifully made artistamp arrived in my mailbox... I can hardly keep up...

First to arrive was this sheet of rainbow-fuzz-screened televisions:

Amazing work. They reminded me of the avatar of our late-great mailartist friend @LikeTelevisionSnow. It's been some time since we've been blessed by his presence and…

I LOVE THIS!!

James made a miniature sketch journal documenting several different days and times and people AND THEIR DRINKS at the local independent Coffee House in his local mid-central-eastern California small town! These sketches are AMAZING and DETAILED and depict a whole host of coffeeshop patrons. I love their unique characters and I…

A compendium of great recently received postcards...

Dr Zack sends scrump-dili-icious greeting in the form of some very creative collage work. Careful! You could put somebody's eye out with that thing!! Fortunately, it was "wrapped" in a protective glove...always play safe!…

Coco is a great creatrix of the Artistamp form. Here, she muses on "The Fate of Kings" ...and well, gee... it doesn't seem to end too well for too many of them, does it??!  Perhaps a helpful notation for those with monarchic-totalitarian aspirations of power and who wish to be kings themselves in our modern era. SOUNDS CRAZY, I KNOW.... WHO…

A welcome envelope from new correspondent Todd Camplin, who included a diverse sample of works in a variety of styles and mediums: pencil sketches, ink designs, and a color paint shape study...

Whoowheee! That's great! Thanks, Todd! ...something in the mail back to you…

From Subreal Alchemy (Pennsylvania), Renée Brandow (Iowa), and Tofu (California)...

Dave (Subreal Alchemy) and I are on the same wavelength...

Indeed, what billionaire could ever…

A beautiful still life study with four vessels...

Bonus was this handmade envelope with a very cute heifer...

Thank you Awyn!  It's always a pleasure to correspond with…

Yeah…okay…. a pretty innocent, innocuous envelope announcing the contents of the Dave’s mailing (just in case one is “triggered” by ATCs).

A sketch experiment of some…

Another prolific mail artisan this spring has been Jack Latteman of Cascadia Artpost. Three envelope surprises, and 3 of his oversized hand-pirinted postcard, all marking significant projects or historical investigations or adventures or celebrations…and sometimes even a little political humor!…

Diana Hale has been prolific…extravagantly productive…prodigious…bountiful of late in producing some beautiful sheets of artistamps.

She appears to be principally expert with a perforator…

Over the course of this spring and summer, I’ve been the lucky recipient of no less than FOUR examples of her handiwork. Some…

You can’t miss an envelope from Ficus Strangulensis in your mailbox…his use of NEON address labels slathered over the face of his missives is a dead give-a-way that you’ve gotten something unique through the mail. One could say that Fike is the reigning champion of A.I.-generated experimental artwork…you can see his weird and magnificent visual…

Awyn wins the award for most creative bookmark EVER! This clever character can either give you the full glare over your book-marked page…or she can fling her tresses over the page and simply peer at you over the rim! Either way, it’s magnificent.…

Robert and I commenced a wonderful correspondence trade last year that has continued and developed into a friendly letter-writing exchange. Robert’s art is a testament of what is possible with creative design and minimal medium. His envelopes are often the same size and shape, but every poste comes individualized with a unique concept of…