thanks Connie!

My mail art pal Connie has been painting a lot lately and blogging her work. I like almost all of them but one of them really grabbed so I up and asked her if I could have it! The nerve, huh? But I really liked it and she and I have traded enough art that she knows I appreciate her work, so she said sure. In trade for a piece of mine yet to be created. If she spots something I post that she likes, she's say so, and I'll send it off to her. Kinda like a deal with the devil in that you don;'t know the cost until the time comes. But I'm good with that, I like having the things I create go off to live with with someone else who'll enjoy them.

Anyway, it arrived last week and I'm finally getting off my arse to blog about it. I still need to decide how to display it. Don't want to mat it cause I like the deckle edges so maybe need to just mount it in a frame on a dark background. Will play around and see what looks best.

This piece is smallish, only 5"x5" I think, or maybe 5.5" x 5.5". But look at all that's going on in it. The background has under layers of dark under the white that give it a lot of depth. I have no idea of her process to get it to look like this but love the result.

There are torn collaged papers, more paint, more papers, some rusty lines. It's all very cool, and the color scheme of bluey greens and orange is my fave. But the part the really does it for me is that grungy turquoise bit in the middle. It glows.

Just love it. Thanks, Connie, for letting me have it! It'll have a prime spot on my wall once I get the frame sorted.

circles, blue, one word

That was the theme for my latest postcard swap with Connie. As always, 

I'm intrigued with the differences between two cards made to the same parameters. We didn't use any techniques in common and our colors aren't particularly similar. Very fun.

Next we're doing 'neutrals'. Stay tuned...

This is the one Connie sent me. Torn, collaged blue papers
with a few punched circles and the single word "graphic'.
The post office kindly added the black smudges in the center. 

I sent this one to her. Scraped paint background with various
white stamped circles and the lettered word 'concentric'.

hers and mine

I've been swapping postcards with an artist named Connie Rose for a while now and have accumulated a nice collection of her art. I thought it would be fun to look at a few of what I sent her and what I got in return. We've done many more swaps than this but these are the ones that are scanned and ready to post.

If you're reading this, you like art. Scare up another art friend to swap postcards with. I can't tell you how much fun it is to find one of these in my mailbox a couple times a month!

Ransom Note - first card I sent where all the letters fell off cause
I'm a moron and used a glue stick instead of gel medium. 

Ransom Note - card Connie sent me.
The background is heavily painted and very textural.
Love the pops of red.

Ransom Note - the second card I sent where everything stayed ON!

Round - card I sent Connie, all gelli prints. I immodestly love this one
and almost made another to send but then came to my senses and mailed it off.

Round - card Connie sent me. That's an excellent saying to remember.

White - card I sent Connie. 

White - card Connie sent me. Love this one, the old numbers, the wrapped up books.