Some recent In-coming Mail Art

From Shmuel in Vermont. The front had some postal service markings but who cares. I colored with colored pencil but the surface didn't take them very well. Who cares. I haven't decided where I want to put this or to whom I'll send it. I quite like it.

Fike (Ficus Strangulensis) sends the most interesting mailings and a nice note always.

Ed, from up in Concrete, WA, USA, has send a stamped portrait. Looks like linocut maybe. I like it.

Adam Roussopolos, who has sent a lot of us rubber stamps and a portrait.

Bonnie Diva sent me on of her very fun Zines.

Now to respond to people so I can keep getting mail!

You can do this mailart thing, too. Check out IUOMA- International Union of Mail Artists 
 

Recent mailart-out bound

 

I have a lot of fun with old postcards that I add word bubbles to, making up stories on the reverse but the recipient can add what ever words they want to the bubbles.

The ink samples were made by Diane Hale. She sent me full sheets, like stamps. I framed one set, and am using the others for collages.

Not sure where this one got sent to but I really like how it turned out.

Another piece with Diana's ink samples. She made the inks!!

Some mail Art

This is the reverse of the sunflower piece I sent to a mailart call in Ukraine, It’s organized by Roman Golub (no relation) I sent in an envelope not knowing how long it would be in transit and I didn’t want it to get beat up. 

I used a photo I’d taken at the Virginia Museum of Fine Art in the summer and extended it using Derwent Inktense pencils. I hope it arrives safely. 

UPDATE: This piece arrived in Ukraine. It took only a month. I'm so happy.

I altered a postcard of a planet using circles and lining up the “images” on them to the edges of the planet. I liked how it turned out. 

 A friend added to my collection of old postcards and another friend sent me a note on the back of a page from a vintage book about mushrooms. One seemed appropriate for altering the postcard. It made me laugh and I hope the recipient laughs too. 

We need more laughter these days. What makes you laugh? 

Playing with a pen!

 

Perforated photos (more of them)

 Diana Hale, perforator extraordinary, Mailartist, sent me perforated photos. I have no idea who these people are. But they are no longer as close as they used to be. The blue dots are an homage to John Baldessari. 

Perforated photos

 A mailart friend, Diana Hale, offered to perforate some photos for me. I sent her old photos we had, who we couldn’t identify. They came from my husband’s family. And She returned them plus a few more from her own stash. They were fun to play with. I call the series “They had been closer in the past’

two zines

 I’ve a renewed interest in these small zines. Probably because of the group on IUOMA. Photos out of order, oh well.