I recently picked up Nick Bantock's The Trickster's Hat, which is full of great activities that help ones get over themselves and their fear of putting something on the page. (At least I hope so; it's been good so far! The subtitle is hopeful: A Mischievous Apprenticeship in Creativity.) One of the exercises had you playing around with letters, which is when I realized the beauty of cutting letters in half. Be prepared for more of that.
Recently, I also did a few more grid collages for Karen over at Mail Me Some Art. I wasn't super happy with the way a couple of the ones I made turned out (I called them the Washi Wall of Shame #1 and #2, but I worried that the washi tape on a naked postcard wouldn't withstand the postal system) so I replaced them with these, which used up some of the gazillion stamps I have of Queen Liz:
I also received some nice mail art over the past few weeks. Here are a few pieces:
Thanks, Stacy. I don't get called adorable too often! |
A stunner from Richard Baudet of Marseilles.The envelope is made of wallpaper. |
Finally, one of the things that mail artists get up to is to have slightly random (or not) calls for mail art around a particular theme. One that came up on the International Union of Mail Artists was a call for banana-themed mail art in time for International Banana Day (who knew?). So, I played along. So far, one of my envelopes has arrived at its destination. You can see if here on Rebecca Guyver's great blog, The Postal Ledger. Mine is the second image down on this post.
There's lots more to write about, including a few scores I found yesterday when, on a whim, I went to a postal stamp exhibit and show, but I'll spare you - oh, anonymous readers - for now.
2 comments:
thanks for the tip on the Bantock book. I've just requested it through my library.
I quite like your bird card. they may be ubiquitous, but I can't deny m fondness for them.
Thanks, Karen. We were just in Portland (hot on the heels of San Francisco, I realize, but my last trip for awhile) and my husband had never seen Portlandia or the "put a bird on it skit' so, of course, we had to watch it. It cracks me up every time!
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