Moving on with Mail Art 365 days.

Tuscan Landscape with eagle and smile

 Today I decided to do some more experimenting with packing tape. I used both the pull the tape off the page method and the soak it in water method. Such fun. Not sure of how the results turned out but I had fun doing it.

Man and Parrot (#34c)

Interstate 270 (#34b)

Coping in Southern California (#34a)

The image of the man that I soaked off of the page was kind of dark so I wanted the card to be colorful. However, it was too something or other on the right so I added the colorful parrot, which somehow works for me with the addition of the sheer circle.






This young boy came from an old National Geo. His face was just so solemn and his gaze so direct at the camera. Somehow, pairing him with calmer colors and a piece of pale map worked as a composition without taking away from his powerful image.







I gleaned these images from an old National Geo magazine of a mudslide in Glendora. A lot of my family  lives in Southern California so I think about the disasters there. Once I was even there when there was a bad earthquake. To say I was shaken up by it, is to put it mildly.

Mail art in the new year.

Tuscan Landscape with Elephant and vintage TV

 I had a nice calendar of Tuscan landscapes, but the spaces were too tiny to write in, so I'm using the images for backgrounds. What fun to figure out what to do with them. This series of animals and old stuff worked for me. They are kind of like little stories. You can make them up for yourselves. All three are going to people in the U.S.A.  I'm sort of randomly picking recipients from now ever-growing list of folks. Your name is probably on that list!

Tuscan Landscape with antique dresser and cat

This one with the field of sunflowers is going to someone who lives where the weather is very snowy.

Tuscan Landscape with vintage recorder & bird

This landscape was so chilly looking to me, that I had to add the bright yellow to it. The bird listening to the old recording machine put me in the mind of springtime.