Paw Prints

4×6 Mail Art Postcard to anongrrl
See also: http://www.livejournal.com/users/evemailart/926.html

2005-08-24 in nervousness yahoo group
my father died this morning.

i was planning to do a mail art call of some kind along these lines.
now seems as good a time as any.

so if anyone wants to, send me a 4×6 postcard on the theme of fathers
and what you learned from yours, or what you can learn from a dad,
yours or someone else’s.

i’m going to do a zine. hope no one minds i cross posted this. xox.

I think a postcard from a reproduction of the painting i’m working on, with embellishments might be appropo.

Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:09:55 +0200
From: Guido Vermeulen in the IUOMA yahoogroup , forwarded from Lolaboots:

Theme Woman’s Desire and Passion – First International Postal Art Exhibit in Shanghai

Call for international contributions to first postal art show in Shanghai. Participants will send their art contribution by postal mail or by email to organizers. Works received will be shown at the Room With a View Gallery in Shanghai.

… send your works by email or post to:

Effie Pow/Lola Boots
c/o Shanghai Correspondence Bureau of Art
Hongqiao Road 168, Bldg No. 6, Room 803
Shanghai 200030 China

effipow via gmail.com
lolaboots2003 via yahoo.com

or

Room With a View Gallery
dhzhao via topchoice.com.cn
www.topart.cn

Size & Medium
Any size. Any medium.
Sign and date your contribution. Also include
name, address, and email address.

Deadline
Must be received by 31 October 2005
First exhibit planned for mid-November 2005

No jury, no returns. Exhibit and online documentation.
Room With a View will exhibit works in at least one show and provide
online and email documentation.

Pink Auctions

I’ve promised no more projects for myself, but… but… but…

I began this painting — the grisaille under painting — yesterday. (Photo is off center.) Delighted. Christine and i had a wonderful discussion of how she saw Notre Dame, Our Lady, made concrete, as well as Aphrodite rising from the waves.

I also made a carved a rubber stamp to signify IUOMA membership. (And then just now discovered that i ought to join the Yahoo group.) I found Sanford Magic Rub to be a wonderful medium, but maybe i was just trying harder than my last attempt on soft pink erasers. I’ll admit to being delighted with that process, too. I made a couple ATC which will start a series: JEB-ATC2005.01 Artistamps, Cork Stamps, and Eraser stamps. After receiving Deni_zen’s beautiful ATC on Friday, i hesitate to send these out in a swap, but they’ll be fine to include with other sendings. Or maybe i’ll just keep them as samples of the stamps^3 i’ve been making for the album i will get around to making.

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.

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Added 2005-08-01: Rare Animals of the World
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