Mail Art Completed & Mandala 19 0f 100

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100 Mandalas, acrylic paint, collage, Diva Challenge, Diva's Challenge, mail art, Mandala, zentangle

Yesterday I posted about the beginning of this mail art batch and I finished 2 post cards today. The one on the left is also for the Diva Zentangle Challenge. The tangle that I used for the background is called Keeko.

Here is another step in the process:

I find drawing different sized circles in my mandalas to be very soothing. I have been working on this one for quite a while because I had a hard time coloring around all the little circles. I’m looking forward to coloring it. If you want to color some of my other mandalas they are available as digital downloads from Etsy.

Variety of Art Completed (mostly)

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acrylic paint, acrylic paints, art, art journal, Art Journal Every Day, collage, gratitude, gratitude journal, layers, mail art

I have been working on a complicated gratitude journal page layout and I just finished it. These pages have been quite a process, like a lot of the art I have been making lately. I will post pictures of the pages in process and some mail art that I’m working on and haven’t yet completed.

completed page layout

This has a few layers of paint and paper. The left hand page represents a lot of love and sadness the week following the election. The right hand page has a lot of mail related ephemera. Some of it is my gratitude for our ability to pay our bills. Some of it is my love for getting and sending snail mail. Some of the stamps and postmarks are important in my life. In any case there is a lot of gratitude, but I wanted it to look prettier.

So I added some more paint. The left hand portrait is of my younger son who had a difficult week. The white on the right side was following up with the “whitewashing” idea from my process painting and some ideas I have for art with a complex yet subtle background. I am practicing some more with the mail art project that you will see momentarily. I did some journaling on the white with colored pencils, but it isn’t very visible. Even less so when I put the mandala on it.

mail art step 1

Mail art step 2 – I let the under-painting dry completely for this one.

I put a mandala on it. I plan to cut this into pieces to make a mail art series.

I hope you have a beautiful day.

Mail Art!

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100 Mandalas, art, collage, mail art, Postcard

Getting a couple of postcards ready. Here are the initial layers of paint and then what I put on top.

I think I’m going to add some more details on the mandala, actually, maybe on both. I hope you have a beautiful day.

Postal Inspiration

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Altered book, Anais Nin, Anne Lamott, art journal, gratitude, gratitude journal, handmade books, Mae West, mail art, quotes, Virginia Wolff, Washi tape

My vision problems have come back so I haven’t been able to do a lot of art the last few weeks. But I have been getting lots of inspiration. Last week I got a parcel in the mail from a new friend I made at the yoga retreat. It was some really interesting handmade books by an artist she knew. They were wrapped so beautifully, too.

In an odd example of synchronicity the Journal 52 prompt for last week was Mail Art. So I used the wrappings and various used postage stamps to create the following gratitude journal entry.

All of the handmade books included quotes so I typed up a few on my label maker to add to the pages.

“I used to be snow white, but I drifted.” Mae West

“I read the book of Job last night. I don’t think God comes out well in it.” Virginia Wolff

“A hundred years from now? All new people!” Anne Lamott

“Then the time came when the risk it took to remain tight as a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” Anais Nin

“If you have knowledge let others light their candles on it.” Margaret Fuller

“It’s the good girls who keep the diaries, the bad girls never have the time.” Tallulah Bankhead

I hope you have a beautiful day!