Postcard Mail Art

mail art postcard

Recently, I found some thick sheets of paper in the art section of my local second-hand shop. They remind me of the postcards made out of rice paper that I used to buy when I lived in Japan. I am using them to make postcards to send in the mail to friends.

For the postcard above, I used pencil, charcoal, acrylics and pastel chalk. For the hair, I used my cheap preppy pen loaded with my purple mix of De Atramentis Document inks. The note at the top left is something I had written to myself years ago which seemed to fit the feeling of the portrait.

mail art postcard

The above the postcard is titled, A New Perspective, and I used pencil and De Atramentis Document inks.

mail art postcard

I have had a project in mind for many years to pair some of my old poetry and notes to myself with my art. The above is another note I wrote in the late 80's that I've paired with a doodle I did last year.

It's been fun to do these postcards, and once I have enough art paired with poems, I'll put them in a zine.

Thanks for the visit and wishing everyone a good week.

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