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.

Some art, and a reminder about Slow Art

 A collage on an old book cover. I'll be sending this out with the address on the same side as the collage? I left room for that and yet, I'm not sure about doing it that way. I guess I can add an address label on the reverse on the book cover image. What do you think? Address this side? or leave it alone?
Advice?

My friend Andrea, of Found Art fame, sent me some things including an old postcard from Russia.  She said that I could alter it, so I did.

 Here's a photo from last year's Slow Art Day event. Folks looking at a Jasper John's painting, slowly.

So if you can join me, register HERE so I'll know you're coming.
If you don't live near me, find a venue near where YOU live. Check out the venues HERE.

Come along, bring friends, family, whomever, all ages welcome.

No experience needed, just a time to look at art slowly and enjoy.

Done with Art-o-Mat, almost done with year long project!

 Here it is, my favorite of my tiny landscapes for the Art-o-Mat project. I finished wrapping up today and I'll deliver them tomorrow. The opening event for the 10th Anniversary of the Richmond VA machine will be this Wednesday at the Visual Art Center. Very exciting!

 Today's mail art pieces (day 362, omg almost at the end) were inspired by Josef Albers. 

 I was surprised at how much work goes into making small paintings. Really quite similar to making large paintings but I think I want to do more of these, even after the year long project ends.

 My friend Ann called me this morning to come join her at the VMFA garden, but I was finishing my project and couldn't join her. However, when I finished,  I asked C to join me and we walked over to the park. Here are the stairs leading up to the upper level. The water falls runs alongside. It makes a nice water flowing noise.

 Here's the approach to the park, with the VMFA on the right and ahead of us, the berm (which actually is covering the multi-level parking deck) which is a park area with benches, plants, and sculptures.

I love to photograph this building. I liked the reflection in the pool, with the cat-tails in the foreground. The sky was so blue today. It was spring-like outdoors. We sat for awhile at the top of the berm enjoying the view, getting sun on us, saying how lucky we were to live so close to this lovely place.

Day 356 of my 365 project!

There are only 9 more days to go in my year long project.  After a weekend with Tiny Town, I decided to go minimal today and use just 3 things that were within reach and a blank that was cut from some cardboard (carton.) I used a bit of a photo that I found very intriguing; Swans being transported in a tiny boat.

I'm still working on my tiny landscape paintings. I think I have the ground done. I want to work on the skies a bit more, brighten them up a bit. After that, I'll paint white all around the sides to clean them up. I thought tiny paintings would take a tiny amount of time, ha ha ha, silly moi!

Saturday and another wedding!

 Cheryl Penn, who's a book artist in South Africa, sent me two sets of photos that she'd taken of the top of a table in a painting studio. She asked me to alter and return one set.

 I decided to use a figure that I have multiples of, like this image a lot. I placed her on the photo in a way that I hoped would give the flat surface some depth. I then added a framing device to select a tiny portion of the surface, just as Cheryl had done in her selection of the larger area. I like the way the two images changed the depth and the perception of what was going on.

This is day #326's mail art. 4 bits from a drawer. I have a few more old photos and negatives to play with. I want to use them up before 30 Nov., which is the last day of the project. Yikes.

Here's a bit of information about the stamp in the previous post. My friend, Katerina in Thessaloniki, sent it to me.
It was issued the year our son was born.

 U.S. #1455
8¢ Family Planning

Issue Date: March 18, 1972
City: New York, NY
Quantity: 153,025,000
Printed By: Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Printing Method: Giori Press
Perforations: 11
Color: Multicolored

Day 318, down in Asheville, NC

 This was a view from Route 40 going through North Carolina last night as the sun was setting. It was a 7 hour drive, thankfully nephew was driving, and we stopped a couple times for necessaries.

 This was captured with my cell phone as we were bouncing along the highway. Can you believe how they turned out like little birds? So cute!

 I'm not sure what these were, but I do like the effects of drive-by photo snapping.

 Today, we explored Asheville. What a lot of things to see and many places to eat yummy food. I had a tofu scrambler with veggie saugage patties for lunch, and it was really satisfying. We went into a really fabulous craft gallery and I fell in love with lots of things. This one piece is by an artist named Robert Johnson and the show is entitled Peru. These are like journal pages, watercolor, colored pencil, ink. So fabulous. He also had large paintings. The Gallery is Blue Spiral.

This is the card I made this morning for day #318 of my 365 project. I'd addressed, stamped and numbered them before I left home. I brought with the butterflies, black paper and purple circle as my basics so I'll just create each day's card with those items and a bit of Asheville.

I, also, bought a little warm hat, which makes me toasty happy. I'm feeling good though very tired. I assume I'm continuing to make platelets, which is excellent. Tomorrow is W day.

#77 series, the letter N

 Some days everything falls into place. It just happens.

 The letter "N" series is based on two things, a composition by Gauguin  (a self portrait with a yellow wall behind him and his image in the lower left) see below, and the dictum "if you have 4 things, use three.

The mat board was blue and I saw it as a really good background for these simple compositions.

I saw this painting in an issue of France magazine this morning and it just got stuck in my head when I went into my studio. What an inspiration.

Roland Ginzel, my first drawing instructor

Roland Ginzel was my first drawing instructor, way back, way way back, when I started my art education at the University of Illinois. It was so far back that classes were held at Navy Pier. There was no Chicago Campus, and we used to say that we were the only University that could be torpedoed. Yikes!  Here are some examples of Roland Ginzel's paintings that my husband, also a student of his way way back, found on the internet. This is my way of saying: THANK YOU, Mr. Ginzel. (In those days way way back, that's how we addressed our profs.)