incoming mailart

I'm behind posting incoming art but just scanned a bunch more.

The colors in this are lovely. It's from an MMSA swap where you had to use
only the elements on a provided collage sheet.
Those are always fun cause the cards are all wildly different from one another,
yet all made with the same basic stuff. This one's from Christie J.

This wild thing is from Katie R and it's made from plastic grocery bags fused together.
I don't even know how you do that! Then painted with all sorts runny colors
 and it looks sort of organic. A very cool card from the anything-but-paper MMSA swap.

Another from the anything-but-paper swap, this one's painted onto a piece of clear acrylic.
The sunflower is metallic in person and much more exciting than the scan shows.
Neat idea from I don't know who cause it isn't signed!

A card from the MMSA purple swap, made by Helga.
It's a bit more subdued in person and has every color of purple there is on it.
Love all the different shapes.

This one's from Karen M in thanks for a card she commented on that I went ahead and sent to her.
This card has a lot of interesting marks on it and I've looked at it quite a bit,
 trying to figure how she made them all. I'm not normally much of a primary colors person
but I like this particular card a lot.

This is an ATC from Thealie in France, from an exchange at creativesouls.ning.com.
This wasn't even the card from the theme, just an extra she sent along.
 Lots of texture and neat colors.

catching up... part 1

I've been in one of those funks where I come home from work and all I wanna do is sit on the couch and read. It didn't help that I had a really good book going and was practically reading at traffic lights to see what happened next. But I finally finished the damn thing and got back to real life. I do love a good book but it sort of puts everything else on hold.

Lots of art has arrived and I've just scanned a bunch of it after thanking the various senders. MMSA swaps, private swaps, little gifts - all sorts of good stuff.

This went out to one of my ongoing private swaps.
Love the goofy images on this card.
They both came from a magazine full of ads for
art galleries. I added a few things and some
doodles and like it a lot.

Incoming from Peggy in CO. I admired it on MMSA when
Karen posted it and Peggy was nice enough to send me a copy
of it in case I don't get the original in the swap.
Love the colors and the composition and the
squiggly border. Just a great piece of art.

One from Connie Rose. The stenciled dots are metallic bronze
and the whole thing just shimmers. Our private swap theme
was purple and this card is a lovely take on an ocean sunset.

Another from Peggy. Love the limited palette and the odd shapes,
kind of a spiral around the bird, and the doodles. Another cool
one, Peggy.

Put a fish on it swap - from Noel in AZ.
The fish is a vintage Asian illustration embellished with
metallic paint. Neat card.

Put a fish on it swap - from Linda in MA.
Good colors, fun dots and mysterious caption.

Put a fish on it swap - from Mandy in MA.
Great background, lots of paint and collage,
and really pretty fish.

today's output

Once I got done with the farmer's market, a quick stop by work, a wonderful hour in Barnes & Noble, and a quick shopping spree in Michaels, I came home and made 4 more postcards and an ATC. 

Gelli print phone book page background, stamps, torn book page arrows,
stamped gesso circles, doodles, and a couple words.
The 3 stamped words and the pen nibs have been stamped on this card
for months but then I got stuck on what else to do so it sat.
When I was choosing backgrounds to work on, I saw it and
decided to figure it out.
And I just realized that's Martha Stewart's phrase. Ah, well.

Paint over gesso over cereal box. The strip of color is the edge left over
when I did the packing tape gelli plate thing. Worked good, just haven't
blogged about it yet. The picture is from a cruise brochure.
And I put white circles on everything today.

This is a bathing beauties postcard for the swap on creative souls.
Image and text from the January 7, 1946 issue of LIFE mag.
They used fake tan even back then. But in a black and white magazine,
some of the effectiveness of the ad is lost.

Gel medium transfer of a cabinet card printed onto a
gelli printed book page, then glued to this
gelli print postcard. A few white circles,
a couple postage stamps, an apropos quote.
Love the colors in this one.

This is actually an ATC, 2.5" x 3.5". The creative souls
swap theme was... circles. I kept it simple,
doing some (more) white circles, a few cut from book
pages and a few words.
The background was made using the Vaseline
resist technique and is a bit more interesting
in person than it scanned.