Altered a card of my husband's ART

Art work by Chuck Scalin - Altered by Mim

 

This altered artist's card, for some artist, I can't remember who, altered with a happy face and a shell, makes ME happy. 

 I've added gloves, finger-less mitts to my etsy shop. Delivery to US only. FritziMim.etsy.com

I've even had a few people stop by for contact free pick up. woo hoo. These, by the way, just sold. 

Keeping busy!

Altered old Postcards

Finding cards in my collection to alter is a lot of fun for me. Finding the right bit to collage on it, to change it up, just a little or a lot. I like playing with space and size relationships. The top card doesn't look altered to me. The additions seem to blend in, as opposed to the observation tower where the hand comes in to terrify the person on the level. Or, at least, in my mind they're terrified. I would be. 
 

We CAN!

 

Mail Art for two poets

Some with random text, a poem

Some with circles

 

Small collages - MailArt & a mitt

Altered Picasso

A proposed poster

altered graffiti - photo by Brassai

I made a few altered postcards recently to send off to specific people and one was a result of a prompt during October http://creativesprint.co  I'm posting my Mitts because I just re-opened my Etsy shop http://FritziMim.etsy.com  Which came about because I can't sell my mitts in-person during the pandemic at the usual holiday "shops." My honey suggested I re-open and it's been quite fun to see that people are actually buying stuff from it. Yay commerce, yay my compulsion to knit.

wool mitts with pompoms

 

Altered Cards

Our daughter gifted me with a set of postcards to old typewriters. Very exciting for me as I love typewriters and own two old ones. 

But what to do with them. I held on to these cards for a number of months then decided to created random word poems. 

Works for me. How about you?

 

Alter postcards

 I cleaned up my work table and did some re-organizing of things, which made me more eager to spend this morning in the studio. I found two identical cards - Henri Laurens (1885-1954) A collage he created in 1915. It seems that I got the card at the Pompidou center in Paris. Why two identical cards, I don't know, but I'm happy about it now.  I altered them with the addition of circles. Playing with Josef Albers idea of transparency. Can you see what I did?

Circles - a few circles to alter something

 I've had this postcard of a Picasso sculpture for awhile. Finally, couldn't resist altering it. What was at hand on my studio table, circles, of course.

More Unusual Weather Phenomenon

The weather was unpredictable but the unusual circular phenomenon was quite unusual. And that random text that appeared at the same time, was disconcerting.

 

Weather Phenomenon

 

Random Words and Circles

 I spent the morning cutting circles and words out of a magazine that was headed to the recycling bin. It was a very satisfying activity for a gray morning. I was happy to just sit in my studio and do this. And there are always small blanks at hand, ATC size, so I can just make a few small random word poems with circles. Yes, very satisfying. What do you think? Do you have a creative activity that you can do in a few minutes and feel satisfied?

Postcard size Random poetry and circles

 I had some paper on my table and decided to make these random word collages, with circles. I like how they turned out and I think I'll use these for a garden art exhibit in from of our house, once we have a forecast for dry weather for a few days. 

Landscape Beautification Project

This is one of many images of my Landscape Beautification project. I don't remember if I've posted it before, but here it is again, if I have. I've enjoyed adding paintings to vintage landscape postcards, most of them kind of boring. Finding the right painting to fit into the image, the right angle, the right color, is challenging and fun for me.  This one was sent out to someone - I can't remember who - the other day.

Artist Trading Cards - random poetry (VisPo)

Went into my studio this morning and 

got the sudden urge to make 

some small poetry ATCs. 

Altered Postcards - Suwannee River

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 I came across several of the same postcards in my collection of boring postcards. These sat on my work table for awhile before I decided what to do with them. Ah hah, perfect for the shells I'd been cutting out of Cabinet of Natural Curiosities.

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On the reverse:
The townspeople gathered, each spring, on the shore of the Suwanee River to watch the shell flotilla as it passed by.

Another altered Postcard

2020-20

I was gifted with an old postcard album. The album had a label inside that said Stuttgart. No other identification. The postcards were mostly black and white. Nothing was written on them and they were in the album with those little black corner thingies that held them in place. There were from France, England, and Germany. They appeared to be from the 1940s. They were found in a house that some acquaintances purchased a number of years ago, and recently, while clearing things out, decided to pass this album along to me. YAY, lucky me. This is the first card that I've altered.

Here's the story I wrote on the reverse:

Motorists rarely used this route, so the large painting didn't create any traffic problems. However, how it got there remained a mystery. It remained there until weather conditions caused it to disintegrate.

A fun day of altering vintage postcards!

2020-14

The enormous shell appeared on day. No one knew who put it there or even how it was put there. It was quite an inconvenience. Too heavy to move, it remained there.

2020-15

When John Oliver popped over the door, several passers-by fainted and one was heard to say- "oh, dear."

2020-16

They were startled out of their boat when the large painting appeared floating in the calm lake.

2020-17

It was never discovered who placed the large shell on the monument. It appeared one day. Children loved to listen to the sound of the sea.







The large shell appeared one day and there-after was used as a marker - "go past the house with the shell and turn left at the next corner."

2020-18

2020-19

A large painting was installed on the lawn as part of The Landscape Beautification Project. Visitors found it saccharine and unappealing. It remained for years.

A new Creative Sprint CLASS! Days 1 and 2

Introduce yourself!

 Day 1 - Introduce yourself. I rubber stamped my name on a postcard multiple times. Simple. But I didn't see where to put text on this first one. Oh well. Learning curve.

Day 2 - make something to hold in the palm of your hand. In the past, I'd make a tiny folded book. This time I made a tiny mask, since I'm making masks for family members. It's for this new doll, which I got for our grandgirl. She can't come over and get it, so I'm "playing" with it. We did a zoom meeting as I opened the package and dressed the doll as she wanted me to. Fun.  And I figured out how to add text! It's a new platform for me.

How people make these tiny doll clothes is amazing. My fingers are too big!!

Thank YOU, Gracias, Danke, Grazie, Mercie Arigato

To all of the people who are on the front lines during this time of the plague. To the medical personnel, and to the people who clean up at the medical facilities, to the food service people, the grocery store clerks and stocking people, to the bus drivers, and the delivery people, the farm workers, to those choosing to do the hard work, the scary work, and those not being able to make a choice about it, for whatever reason, THANK YOU.

And to those stepping up to figure out how to make face shields, volunteers who sew cloth masks, volunteers who use their laser cutters, and 3D printers to figure out how to make protective gear. To the Researchers who are working tirelessly to come up with a vaccine. To the people who volunteered to have antibodies tested on them. To so many more, THANK YOU.

(thanks for ChristopherArndtPostcards.com for this cool postcard)

Random photos during time of Isolation

my "office-studio"

Made banana bread

wrote post cards

Sat in front and watched street

Important information

And I've started to write poetry. I've got 9 poems written so far, in 10 days indoors.  You can read them on my instagram @mimgolub if you'd like or on Facebook where a couple of them are in Spanish, translated by friends of ours because I wanted to have a collaborative experience with them.  Our kids business is going all on-line.    See what they're doing by clicking on the link. Be safe, wash your hands, don't touch your face (teacher voice)

more office but with book & breakfast

Noah's design for ALR