Tag Archives: postcards

Tree and Moon Postcard

I made this postcard from a variety of materials I found in my scrap box. It’s from February, 2022.

Texture and Color and Ink and Landscape and Fish in a Book Print Creek

You can see the materials these postcards are made from and there are a lot of them. That is because I was using up a box of scraps I save from other projects. When it gets full I make art with it, usually postcards, it seems.

These were made in February, 2022.

Somehow I Feel These Go Together

First I’ve got this one…

…then this one. I don’t know why but I like them as a pair.

Postcards made in March, 2022.

Yellow

Here are three postcards made in January 2022. They all have some yellow in them. But that’s about all they have in common, I think.

Doesn’t matter. Let’s just enjoy the yellow and where it takes us!

Textured Postcards

Here are a couple of postcards that if you could feel them rather than looking that their photos, you’d know that they have some dimensionality. I cut out paper with some thickness to it, as in the first one, or as in the second one, I scattered punch-outs from the little catch-thing on my hole puncher. Some of these circlets might have come from the first postcard, maybe?

These pieces were made in January 2022.

You don’t often think about how a postcard feels to handle it, do you? Maybe it’s something to think about more often when making mail art? Hmmm…..

Singing Group

The guys look like they are about to go on stage and do some singing. That’s what I thought when I saw them emerge and step out onto this card.

Postcard, January 2022.

Grid-like

I often find myself arranging things in a grid. I like the orderliness of each section having its boundaries. Even if those boundaries are maybe a little wavy, or permeable.

Here are two postcards from December 2021 following the grid pattern idea in their makeup.

A Trio of Postcards

Quite often, when I am painting, I keep a small stack of cut cardboard postcard-sized pieces at hand to use up the paint on my brush when I want to change colors. I don’t like to waste good paint! And so it becomes part of a random composition that eventually finds its way into something coherent.

I think the most interesting thing about making postcards in this manner is noticing when the composition turns from random paint blobs to coherence in that light-bulb moment when a meaning or a form or a rhythm emerges, and then everything done to it after that is purposeful and to an end.

Of course that means there always needs to be a supply of blank postcards, to keep the process going!

Postcards, made in October 2021.

Odd Creatures Postcards 2021: Epilogue

Back in June 2021 I made a selection of postcards featuring odd-looking creatures.
I took a piece of light cardboard cut to size from a cereal or cracker box. Then I painted bands of color with acrylic paints. Then, I did some negative space drawing with India ink.

I’ve shown you all of the cards I made in this set. How about a group picture so that you can see the entire array?

Odd Creatures Postcards 2021: Five

Back in June 2021 I made a selection of postcards featuring odd-looking creatures.
I took a piece of light cardboard cut to size from a cereal or cracker box. Then I painted bands of color with acrylic paints. Then, I did some negative space drawing with India ink.
There are quite a few of these cards to show. I’ll do so over a few posts. Seeing the end product is better than explaining it in words. Take a look.