Mail Art from Denmark

Mail Art from Kristine in Denmark....

whom I met at a monthly art group when she

lived here in the U.S.  She's a very sweet lady,

and a talented artist.  When she and her

little family decided to move back to Denmark,

we knew we would miss her, but so glad

they are enjoying being near family and

we can stay in touch on-line. 

When Kristine offered to swap Mail Art, I

jumped at the chance.  I love the 

contrast of the stenciled white design on 

the brown craft paper.  A similar design is 

stenciled on the green card. 

Have you gotten any

artistic mail lately?

Portion Control

Michelle Ward's Green Pepper Press
Street Team Crusade No. 28 is
"Portion Control."
The idea is that a portion of an image,
obscured, embellished, or cropped, etc.
is much more interesting than
the plain complete image
in the center of the paper.
Some of my supplies are
shown above...

These are my Art Journal pages
created with the goal of "portion control."
My previous post showing the
exploration of the primitive shape
of a bird is continued...

I used crayons & watercolor
for a resist, portions of poems
in my own handwriting,
hand-carved stamps,
black acrylic paint,
and both the positive and
negative portions of
my stencils.

Shape Up!

Michelle Ward's GPP Street Team Blog
Crusade No. 27 is called
Shape Up!
She challenged us to explore
a shape: think positive & negative,
large & small...

These Art Journal pages were first painted
with watercolors for the background.
Primitive bird shapes were cut
from paper and then pastels
applied to the bird shape. I laid
the shape onto the journal page
and rubbed the pastel from
the stencil onto the journal
page, creating a stencil of the negative
shape. Hand-carved bird stamps
were added & quotes in calligraphy.
I also included the stencil shapes
by gluing them to the page as well.