Karl G. Siewert's Blog – January 2011 Archive (2)

5 Rand - A Call for Mailart, with restrictions

This is my first call for mailart. Please let me know if you have suggestions for how to make it better!

Restrictions make things more interesting. If you give a class an assignment to "write anything you want," most of them will be stymied. Tell them to write the story of their worst day ever, and pens will start scratching immediately.

So, we have 5…

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Added by Karl G. Siewert on January 29, 2011 at 2:58am — 4 Comments

Process for Mailart #017 - "Zabeth"

I took some step-by-step photos of my painting/drawing process for Mailart piece #017. I thought I'd share them here.

I started with tracing paper over a photo. I knew I wanted three different colors: a pale brown, a darker brown, and blue for the sky. I drew the borderlines that would delineate each area.…

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Added by Karl G. Siewert on January 12, 2011 at 5:51am — 1 Comment

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