Paw Prints

Email sent via the form http://www.universityart.com/contact.htm to begin, perhaps, connecting with other local artists. I really loved the way these acrylic pieces had that glow i associate with oils.

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UPDATE: wrong gallery/store. They suggested

Great American Framing Co & Gallery
229 Hamilton Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94301/america
(650) 327-4521

I found an apparently related email address, so trying there….

Dear Friends:

I’m not a regular in downtown Palo Alto, so i believe with less than certainty that it is your store that we passed Friday night. There were a number — three or five — acrylic paintings in the window, abstract pieces with dark colorfields punctuate by lines or blocks of other colors.

It is a quality of color and light i would like to achieve myself, and it occurred to me that someday it would be nice to see if the artist would be interested in talking with me about technique.

I am also curious about the prices, although i don’t know whether the pieces would be in my range.

Would you be able to send to me the name of the artist and the range of prices (particularly for the far left piece with the blue black line)?

Many thanks,

judith bush

Mal*Hart: One of nine faux front postcards. Liquid paper correction pen, black pigment pen on Advantix grocery-store developed photos (from a disposable camera that had likely been too long at the store). Two Mr M definitive stamps with cork cancels of red eye and blue Maltese cross. The digital versions of the photos can be found here.

I took the photos at the Los Baños State Wildlife Refuge and the Merced National Wildlife Refuge on 2005-03-26. The wetlands were full of bird song, birds, and water (it had rained quite recently). We saw the endangered marsh rabbit, ibises, butterflies, egrets and herons, ducks and other waterfowl, and numerous California ground squirrels.

It was always a shock to pull out from the refuges and realize how much land was consumed by farms; how small the refuges were. It’s not really accurate to point to big box stores as changing this landscape — first the land goes under the plow, then the sprawl arrives.

Mail from Adam A Berry & Tyler James Hoare.

I’d sent Tyler Hoare a postcard after seeing his card and query at Mick Boyle’s blog. He sent back an envelope with artistamps, including on marked “MaestroStamps are for Mail Art maestrogaxiola.com” with the image of one of Hoare’s Red Baron Fokkers on the SF Bay shoreline. Inside were some copies of articles about Hoare’s work (smelling delicately of sandalwood!) and a collage from magazine images. The collage struck me with its simple lines as being very well integrated, none of the boundaries that some collages seem to keep between different image sources.

I’m not sure what inspired Berry to send me his postcard (my address at Mail-Art.De perhaps?), yellow acrylic and collage element, but i was tickled to receive it.

Mail from Adam A Berry & Tyler James Hoare.

I’d sent Tyler Hoare a postcard after seeing his card and query at Mick Boyle’s blog. He sent back an envelope with artistamps, including on marked “MaestroStamps are for Mail Art maestrogaxiola.com” with the image of one of Hoare’s Red Baron Fokkers on the SF Bay shoreline. Inside were some copies of articles about Hoare’s work (smelling delicately of sandalwood!) and a collage from magazine images. The collage struck me with its simple lines as being very well integrated, none of the boundaries that some collages seem to keep between different image sources.

I’m not sure what inspired Berry to send me his postcard (my address at Mail-Art.De perhaps?), yellow acrylic and collage element, but i was tickled to receive it.

Paper Mac’s “Make your own Mac”
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The Toy Maker’s paper toys and projects

Added 2005-08-01: Rare Animals of the World
Added 205-08-01: paper CD case

Paper Mac’s “Make your own Mac”
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The Toy Maker’s paper toys and projects

Added 2005-08-01: Rare Animals of the World
Added 205-08-01: paper CD case

I believe i will be in line after Aeolian Solo for a book bluecrayon will send around for us to alter.
LMAO2005.01

Christine came into the office and pointed out that i should go out and enjoy the summer evening and the garden before they were gone. She was right. I collected marigold, nasturtium, calendula, and sweet pea seeds. I noted that the sunflowers had ripening seeds, too! Somehow, knowing that i can plant those seeds for next year, made me much happier about the garden. I’m not sure why.

Later in the evening i carved another pink pearl stamp, a draft of what i need to cancel FM2005.04, and a cork stamp of a leaf. I’d carved a paw print in the morning At New Year’s i first became excited about “tray[s] filled with inky, dirty cork stamps.”

I think I’m well on my way.

My first receipt from the secondary nervousness condition forums, a postcard from Yooperhill:

Christine had suggested that FM2005.11 would be better with white lines — “like the Microsoft commercials” — than with the black ink and gouache i was trying. I didn’t believe i could find any way to apply white ink or paint that would come close to the control i wanted/needed for the design. But when i was in the office supply store, i saw Liquid Paper correction pens. I bought a pair and, while the line is far broader than i would have desired, it works!

Maintaining the pressure for the “squeeze gently to control flow” is actually hard on my hand, so i can’t draw for long with it. Nonetheless, it’s great for drawing on photos.