DKeys's Comments

MEMO TO DK FROM IUOMA TECH SUPPORT: You are on your own.

I honestly don't know. I've seen a button for it somewhere, I think, maybe

dk = miss kitty

Hi Diane,

I mainly use black china ink and then add water colours and some acryl paint. If you know how to mix colours you don't need to have many. There is a very good book by Paul Klee on how to use colours. I've used coffee as well (what's left in the filter after you make coffee). Instead of throwing this away I mix it with wood glue and add on paintings, so they become texture or mattery paintings, love doing this, you can do this also with herbs, the kitchen becomes an art material place, wonderful. I've made collages this way as well, using the scanner for instance as a photo tool. We just have to use our imagination. About wood glue: it is sticky and thick and like milk, but when it's dry it's like glass bubbles and transparent and non toxic, so ...

Come to think of it: I use wood glue only for art purposes, not to repair wooden chairs.

Same thing with iron heater (not for my clothes but to make covers for books)

I've also used urine and that's fun too.. And frottage and fumage techniques but that's not new. It was Max Ernst who opened the way for this. Even what Pollock did came from Ernst!

Guido

Hi Diane,

Yesterday i received your great Mail Art pieces, i loved the small book, many thanks, i will post here on iuoma what you sent me

Hi Diane,

You know the marbled papers? I saw a demonstration once in Dusseldorf Germany by a Turkish artist, that's also the result of putting paper into water with ink and paint and then playing with the paper ro create movements, patterns, different colours. I love all this. Of course most "academic" trained artists are quite scared by this. They can't control it and hate the idea to open themselves to "accidental creations". The beauty of "chance" is something that escapes them.

Guido

Bonjour Diane! I guess it's a good news/bad news Mail Art day. The (very) good news is that I got a groovy envelope WITH a cat hairbonus AND a card AND a Deceased:Return to sender sticker. For all of which many thanks indeed. (I have a Return to Sender US postal sticker on my very special Elvis relics box, and will add this one to it, tee hee!).

So many thanks indeed, and i'll be mailing you something back at the start of next week.

Regards, Val

("But you didn't tell me what the bad news was, Val", "Ah, well I'm absolutely hopeless at puzzle type/assembly things like reconstructing cracker boxes. The only way I could avoid having to make a Peace Crane was by trying, but fortunately failing, to chop off the top of my index finger with a kitchen knife, but without any anaesthetic".)

Hi Nikki, Glad the stamp-less piece arrived safely. Just think how fast it would ahve got to France if I had put some -- let alone the correct -- postage on it? Methinks i should stop putting stamps on things to the US in future. Regards, Val

Happy to learn the flight was a success!!!

Apollo 2 Commander

(and Nikki thanks you for the friend add ;-))

Thanks Diane,

The fluidity is the result of some techniques I use, like painting "wet on wet", or washing techniques. Make paper wet, pour ink or paint on them, wash them away, work on the created shadows. You can play with amounts of water, dillution of ink and paint, speed and power of pouring materials on the surface, time before you wash away, and so on. These are "Asian" techniques in fact. How do you think the backgrounds of certain Asian paintings are made? These mysterious landscapes in the mist are not painted at all but are the result of mastering such techniques. Certain Cobra painters (like the Belgian artist Pierre Alechinsky) use them as well. He hoses paper while I prudently use tap water or on larger works, buckets of water. Often the results are stunning. I've made paintings without touching a brush, just by sing water and materials. Try and play yourself!

Guido

we are all sand angels in the reformed church of sandpo