Category: postal art

  • A postcard for you?

    This is a hand painted postcard. I have really been enjoying “Mail Art” and have been trying to paint a new one every day. These horses have been out in a pasture all day and I think they are ready for some oats. I wonder if anyone reads my blog. Ok. So comment on this…

  • my life in cartoons – part one

    As part of a mail art exchange, I was asked to correspond in cartoon format. By the time the weekend was out, I had done 8 complete strips and an autobiography! It looks like I have to work on the lettering.. To read the cartoons, click on the cartoon until it is full size. Scroll…

  • Mail art – a life long love affair

    When I was six, we moved away from the street where I had lived for my entire life. We had lived in 3 different apartments there before life as I knew it shattered forever. It seemed that my two best friends, one, a girl named Roberta, and the other, a boy named Michael O’Hara, were…

  • Just a friendly thank you

    As I am getting ready for my show at The Station, I am painting less and doing a lot more of the background kinds of jobs that artists must do, like matting, framing and getting paintings in order. I am, however, trying to keep my paintbrushes wet. I have always loved to get and to…

  • Hellebore Hellebore Hellebore. Such a funny name for a pretty flower

    I like getting an assignment. Sometimes when I don’t know what to paint and a friend tells me a story like the one that follows, I find myself very inspired. So here’s the story: I have this really cool friend who is currently designing her yard. She decided she’d plant some Hellebores. While describing her…