Morning fog
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Friday, February 24, 2012
Mail art and Postcard exchange
Mail art is one of those things that I’ve always had an
interest in but never had the opportunity to participate. Now I’m not saying
that there wasn’t anything available to me - there are many lovely swaps and
exchanges you can participate in - the
issue lies in my own reasons for wanting to receive and make mail art. Something about mail art makes me think of the
old and I feel lost art of pen pals. An exchange between people and with each
exchange a small bond is formed until a friendship flourishes. So, I was
waiting for that moment I knew it would be a great time to get involved. That
moment came when Tammy from daisy yellow invited Leslie from comfortable shoes
studios and I to a postcard exchanged. The moment she asked I knew I wanted to
do it. I not only love both of their websites and personal artwork but more
importantly they have similar ways of thinking when it comes to art and where
we should focus our energy when it comes to the choppy waters of this online
world. The parameters of the exchange
were simple. We were to do postcards
with perhaps a pattern or three color theme and send them out by January 31st.
I’m going to talk
about the two that were sent to me and then I’ll discuss a little about the
ones I sent to them with links to their blogs so you can see it.
The first postcard I received was from Tammy. She sent her postcard in an altered envelope.
Inside was a beautiful card of various found and made papers that were stitched
together and then circled with a gossamer bow. Also included were a lot of cool
papers that were made by her and one of her signature mandalas on a paint chip
card.
I received Less’ postcard a few days later. Now Less has already gifted me more than one
piece of art. She is amazingly generous
and unbelievably supportive and so I knew whatever she was going to send me I
was going to love. Leslie sent me one of
her fantastic automatic drawings on watercolor paper. I love this as it personifies who Less is right
now at this moment. It’s like having a photograph of a moment in time.
To both ladies I thank you. Let’s do that again!
Now as to my own postcards you’ll have to visit Less’ site (http://comfortableshoesstudio.com)
and Tammy’s site (http://daisyellow.squarespace.com))
to see them but I at least can talk
about them a little bit.
I don’t really plan what I’m going to do ahead of time but
there are certain themes that pop up in my art consistently and it was no
different here. I didn’t make the
connection until I finished Leslie’s postcard. Both postcards have a watery deep theme to them. Where as Tammy's card boasts a mermaid like portrait, Less' card has a pirate theme. I wanted the cards to look like they could have been found in a trunk of some large ghostly ship at the bottom of the ocean floor. Did I accomplish that? You tell me.
In the end it was a lot of fun and I am sure to do it again.
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