Catching up my Mail Art (again!)

#251

 The plants are popping up, it seems like over night. I looked in the alleyway yesterday and no iris, or so it seems, and today, several iris in bloom! Lovely to look at, lovely scent.

I used some cardboard for this weeks mail art;  scraps of paper samples in non-random placement for these 2 cards.

#101

I really like this #100. Somehow it just satisfied me. I used scraps of paper sample and looked for an arrangement that pleased me. Turned out that it appears that one part got cut off from the other, which I didn't intend. It works! Lots of action and space.

#100

#250

Mail Art update and my big, exciting news!

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#247

#248

 These three pieces of Mail Art are for my 365.2 project. I am using cardboard for the substrates (card blanks, backgrounds) and adding paper samples for the compositions.







They are both minimal and color experiments.

#97

#98

This one has a very spatial feeling for me. It has to do with the angled sides.  Just so planar!











This series of three are for my 365.3 project (which is running concurrently with the 365.2, oh I'm so loca!)


Also, very minimal, also subtle color, using paper samples.






This one has a planar strength, also.

#99

And here is our big, exciting, wonderful news! Now that our son and DIL have posted their baby's third week birthday photo for others to see, I feel open to doing the same on this blog. This is a divergence for me, as my regular readers know. I rarely put anything more personal than my vacation photos, or garden, or studio. But here is our first grandchild, named Zinn Nova, born on 19 March 2013. We are speechless.

Final update and Slow Art Day 2013

 On Friday, I picked up scraps out of my little box of color scraps and just put together colors that felt like spring time, since it's finally arrived. The companion piece, for some reason is below. I can't move images around which is frustrating at times.

 These are today's Mail Art. I got a nice compliment from my honey - he wanted to frame these but I'd already designated them as Mail Art so off they must go. I'll make another one or two especially for him.

 I got a lot of paper samples from my son recently and these are some of them. I liked the way they looked on the cardboard substrate. I'm thinking of these as coming together, moving across a divide, having a conversation. What do you think?

 This cute little turtle is the logo for Slow Art Day, and this year I'm once again hosting an event at The Virginia Museum of Fine Art. It's going to be Saturday, 27 April at 11 a.m.
 Please register and join me in looking at art sloowly.

Or check and see if there's an event near where you live. They're all over the world - Palma de Mallorca, Spain; Madison, Wisconsin USA; Canberra, Australia; London, Ontario, Canada; and way more.

Look HERE for more information in general, and HERE for information about MY event.  I had a really good time choosing the works to be viewed last year. This year's works haven't been selected yet.

I had to show you a close up of some of the plants in my front garden. It's the time of the bursting out of the Star of Bethlehem plants. They add such a woodland touch to the plantings. I love them.

Here's the 2nd piece that I did on Friday. All alone at the bottom for some reason.

More Mail Art update

 These two pieces of Mail Art use random text and cut up bits of some aboriginal artifacts. I find myself using the same compositional elements but always changing up directions when I made these pairs of cards.

 In these two cards, I altered photos that were sent to me by a web friend in Germany. We've been corresponding for a long time. You can see her work here and here.  I'll probably send her one of these and hopefully, she'll like it.

 These two cards of Kennedy Space Center were part of a collection of travel postcards given to me by a person in my Spanish conversation group. Her parents were doing some spring cleaning and wanted to pass along some of their collection. I can't refuse postcards, can I?
These were fun to alter.

Lots of Mail Art to update!

 This one and the flowered one below contain some random text. I keep a small box with cut-out text from an old book. I think it was a romance novel that I found in someone's to-be-trashed box. I felt nothing bad about cutting it up!

 These two with paintings in them were prompted by my getting ready for my 2nd Slow Art Day. Looking at art, slowly.

For these next two pieces of Mail Art, I just looked into one of my scrap box and picked up pieces that were on top of each other. Really, it just happened that they looked like this and I liked the way they looked so I glued them down that way.

Simple, minimal, and for me, they just simply work.

More Mail Art and an anniversary

365.2 #236

 Oh I just had to add a bird. It just felt like the day to do that. The gull also needed to be on a light background that reminded me of a pale sky. The red scrap is another of the bits from Katerina.

365.2 #238

365.2 #237

365.3 #86

#87

#88

Here, in the next few pieces of Mail Art, I tossed the strips onto the background. This wasn't as easy as I thought I  would be, as the strips had a mind of their own and wouldn't drop, wanting to stick to my fingers!








I decided that the black background piece really make the strips pop. The other ground weren't as effective.










Here's the other bird piece that I did the same day as the gull. Some days, things just come together!











More randomness.












And more randomness. This is my least favorite of these cards. It just doesn't work as well as the others. Oh well. Tomorrow's another day to make Mail Art.

 This past weekend was exciting in many ways. One of the things that took place, was the 25th anniversary of the adoption agency that I co-founded. In 2000, I retired from the agency. It was really wonderful to see how the agency has continued providing excellent services to families. 

Go to Coordinators/2, Inc. to find out more about the agency.

Here's my face, peeking around the corner of this piece of cake!

The photo on the cake is one that the current Executive Director, amazing Becky, found in our archives. It shows the 3 women who were directors. Myself and Sharon, the co-founders, and Lynn, who we were fortunate to have our board approve as our next in-line director.

We all thought we looked so much better now, than when this photo was taken, but we are all proud of what the agency continues to do. Pat pat pat on it's back!