Collage

You know, collage is something I was never been terribly interested in doing. I'm not sure why - I guess maybe because most of the examples of it I'd seen had a surrealistic bent to them. My mind just doesn't think like that. I've been exploring it more with mail art, though, and I've found that I enjoy it.

I enjoy working it in with the other types of art I like to do, either in the same piece or just alternating medium by project.

Here are a couple of collages I've sent out that were made before I started the 365 project.

A fun cat-themed postcard that I sent to my daughter. She misses her cat at home, and I was hoping these drawings of kitties would get a smile out of her. This was done with the packing tape technique I mentioned in a previous post. Some were transferred with the tape, and others were just taped down. It's a great technique for postcards because they end up protected by the pseudo-lamination.

I sent this one to an IUOMA member. It is about 6"x10" and I sent it as-is, as a large postcard.

On the back, I put an ad from a 1950 magazine about caffeine, which seemed to just cry out for my handcarved teapot stamp to add the finishing touch.

And that's pretty much it for the moment! No fun mail has arrived here all week, which is sort of disappointing. I'm hoping the famine now means feast days are coming, though!