Showing posts with label abstract. Show all posts
Showing posts with label abstract. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 19, 2016

#18 and a guest Mail Artist.

#18

Zinn #1

Zinn #2

birthday cakes
With #18, I returned to making an abstract collage, using scraps left from cutting things out. I really like how this looks and if I were still painting, I'd use this as a sketch for a large painting. In my mind only, now.

My grand girl was hanging out in my studio and said she wanted to glue a woman on a card too. I let her choose a couple postcards and anything from my pile of scraps. Card #1 she said was her mother and father looking at the sunset. She was down on the beach with us, her grands. This is based on our time at the beach in November when we saw the most spectacular sunsets on Currituck Sound. (OBX, North Carolina)

Card #2 the paintings on the lower right represent her mother and father. The large woman is also her mother and the postage stamp is a mural on the wall that goes up into the sky.  

The cakes are a collaboration we did last week. She wanted to make cakes to put into a toy that she was pretending was an oven. She told me what colors to make the plate, the cake,  the frosting, the candles and even what "cake topper." This from a child who has NEVER eaten cake. She'll be 3 in March. Toward the end, I got her to put the frosting on the top, and the candles. I added the flames. Yesterday, I got her to make the all parts except the plate. I figure, she'll eventually make cakes on her own.

What do you think?

Sunday, January 03, 2016

Maybe I've caught up!

2015-#156

2015 - #157

2016-#1

2015 - un-numbered sent as secret santa card

Zinn's sticker collage Mail Art 2015
It appears that I've made 157 numbered pieces of Mail Art in 2015. There were a few not numbered like the one at the left, and several "holiday" Peace cards - maybe 6 or 8 of those. A good year of Mail Art.
And I started the new year by making a card on day 3!

The last image was an altered piece of Mail Art that I'd received from Ti Ar Raden in France. My grand girl covered it with stickers! I sent it back to Ti Ar with a note of explanation. It was an Add and return, I'd say.


Happy 2016! Here we go again!

What was I doing for the last month and a half?!

Here it is, 2016 already and I'm just realizing that I haven't posted any new Mail Art in a long time. So here goes, I'm playing catch-up!
2015 - #137

2015 - #138
 I have no idea what happened to 139 through 144! I made them, I sent them, but what do they look like?  Oh well.
2015 - #145

2015-#146

2015 - #147

It's August already!!!

 The summer is half way over, and glad about it. It's been so hot here and we look forward to cooler days.  I'm writing writing this...