Paw Prints

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.

I think i’ll plan sending to four known artists/exhibitions and then leave the five open for nervousness/LJ-like trades.

FM2005.11.a: IHMP Exhibition (deadline, end of year) [sent]
FM2005.11.b: blogger Angela Genusa [sent]
FM2005.11.c: blogger Troy Thomas [sent][rcv'd]
FM2005.11.d: MissKitty @ secondary nervousness condition [sent]
FM2005.11.e: BG [sent]
FM2005.11.f: Filippo Buresta – pippoburro[sent]
FM2005.11.g: AA Berry, in response to his postcard [sent]
FM2005.11.h: AthameArt (snc)[sent]
FM2005.11.i: RW

Slightly altered a New Orleans Second Line Jazz Band postcard with complementary Mr M 2005 artistamps and cork cancels to send off for bend of bay’s postcard project.

Photos from a disposable Advantix camera that had likely been too long on the shelf, developed through the local grocery store.

Merced National Wildlife Preserve and Los Baños State Wildlife Refuge, 2005-03-26.

Laminated to cardstock. Two Mr M 2005 definitives. Canceled with wine cork stamps of Maltese cross (sky blue) and eye (red).

FM2005.10c awarded Honorable Mention

Alicia Mitchell, education coordinator at the Peel Heritage Complex, was this year’s juror. She said her job was difficult because of the large artistic spectrum represented by the works. “It is really challenging, especially with the variety of media and subjects,” she explained as she paced back and forth, trying to select winners. “I have a lot of things to consider, especially since this is postcard art. Are they trying to relay a message? How are they using the small surface space of the actual post card? This is going to take awhile.”

FM2005.10a: To Tyler Hoare
FM2005.10b: To Mick Boyle [posted]
FM2005.10c : To Snail Mail World Postcard Art Show with the ad hoc statement, “Inspired by mail artists and by my environment, I whimiscally address these cards from reality.” [Honorable Mention]
FM2005.10d: To ebandit via a “secondary nervousness condition” board swap.
FM2005.12: Gurdonark

From: Last Vestiges
Wetlands Flowing Clear
Refuge, Wild
2005-03-26

FM2005.10:
To Altered Landscape
1375 Boulevard St
Paved, Urban

FM2005.12 (with a printed card back)
To One Who Understands
Egrets & Herons
Cameras, Disposable