Here are a couple of mail art postcards made in March, 2021. I used India ink and acrylics, and I printed bubble wrap over some portions of the images.
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Claudia McGill and Her Art World 
The first one feels quite contained while the second one is chaos (in a good way!) and that leads my brain to think of the first one as a map of a copse of trees among farmland whereas the second one is a verdant and craggy hillscape with water pounding at the shoreline.
Thank you. Somehow the layering of these paint/print cards and the mix of random and regular shapes seems to lead to the eye trying to make a sense of them, and almost getting there, which leads to a lot of imagining. I really like it when that happens and I only wish I knew how to make it happen vs serendipity. Or maybe I don’t. I am still not sure.
I suspect that, if you tried to make it happen, the magic would be lost. I think you creating through instinct and feeling is the secret ingredient to your art.
Yes, I do too. To both your statements. I over-reason every other area of my life but in art, I just do things and don’t judge. Just do. I do not know how I have stumbled on to this outlet for me but I am very grateful for having done so.
The first one, which I like very much, grips me more than the second, I think because it leads to such varied images mentally. First thing it brought to mind was an old typewriter (and I love those, so am biased), but also a loose but concerned village, or possibly a too-crowded and slightly worrisome but not unfriendly bus in a rural area.
I love what you have come up with here as far as what the image “is”. And they are such varied ideas, I also like the idea that the art is evocative enough to do this. I like both images, but more for what I was thinking when doing them than for what they actually are. What I really like too is that bubble wrap effect, I am in danger of really going overboard with it, I want to use it everywhere.
These are very cool – bubblewrap is endlessly interesting as a tool, I think. And you made it do very special things! 👏👏👏
Thank you. Ever since I caught on to the bubble wrap concept I can’t stop using it. I guess eventually I’ll be tired of it, but I love the variations it seems to come up with and how it adds to almost any composition.
Yes! And it comes in different sizes, too! I’ve tried it with the bubbles “popped” & “unpopped.” Different looks, textures. VERY cool stuff! 🤗👋
Wonderful!!!
Thank you!
Is there nothing you won’t play with?
Thanks for the ongoing encouragement that your work gives as inspiration.
You’re welcome. I do think I’ll try almost any art activity one time, and then who knows? It may crop up again in some form sooner or later if I don’t keep it up right at the moment. That is what I like about art., there is always a new thing to be looking into…