Mail Art Project #100

Today's quote:

"Ends are not bad things, they just mean that something else is about to begin.  And there are many things that don't really end, anyway, they just begin in a new way.  

-C. JoyBell C.-

Mail Art Project Ninety Nine

"Buffalo Robe"

so named because this Thermofax screen print was created from a photo I took of a Buffalo Robe at the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center in Great Falls, Montana.  The Buffalo Robe was covered in figures like this and was surely used for story telling.

The background fabric is hand painted and the screen print has been colored with paint markers.

This week's quote:

"Great numbers of the Indians pass our camp on their hunting excursions:

the day was clear and pleasant but the night was very cold 

and there was white frost."

-Meriwether Lewis-

Mail Art Project Ninety Eight

"Demolition"

Breakdown printed cotton, MX dyes, machine quilted.

This week's quote:

"Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."

-Mark Twain-

Mail Art Project Ninety Seven

Rainbow Trout

Shibori dyed background.  Fused applique fishes made of hand painted and printed cotton.

This week's quote:

"Chance is always powerful.

Let your hook always be cast;  

in the pool where you least expect it,

there will be fish."

-Ovid-

Mail Art Project - Ninety Six

"Summer Chickadee"

Gelatin plate printed cotton.  Screen printed chickadees (adapted from my photos of chickadees in my yard.)

This week's quote:

"No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky."

-Bob Dylan-

Mail Art Project Ninety Five

Abstract Painting III

This is the last in the series of postcards I made with the group painted fabric.

Today's quote:

"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."

-Pablo Picasso-

Mail Art Project Ninety Four

"Pea Pods"

Block printed, machine quilted.

Today's quote:

"Dreams are the seeds of change.

Nothing ever grows without a seed, 

and nothing ever changes without a dream."

-Debby Boone-

Mail Art Project Ninety Three

"Red, White and Blue"

Block Printed cotton, machine quilted.

Today's quote:

"There is nothing wrong in America that cannot be cured with what is right in America."

-William J. Clinton-

Mail Art Project Ninety Two

"Abstract II"

Hand painted cotton.  This fabric was painted by my small art quilt group - WAV.  We each had a color and a paintbrush and walked around the table adding to each area until it was almost all covered in paint.  When it was dry, we each took a piece of the fabric.  I used mine to create a series of postcards.

This week's quote:

"I have not failed.  I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

-Thomas Alva Edison-

1847 - 1931

Mail Art Project Week Ninety One

"Leonardo Meets Michelle"

The fabric is screen printed with a Thermofax screen created by my daughter, Michelle - while she was a student in the Commercial Photography department at Northwest Wyoming College.  Then, I screen printed over it with the famous drawing by Leonardo diVinci.

Today's quote:

"Reader, suppose you were an idiot.

And suppose you were a member of congress.

But I repeat myself."

-Mark Twain-

Mail Art Project # 90

"Turtle on Plaid"

Hand dyed and block printed plaid cotton sheet.  Screen printed.

This week's quote:

"Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason."

-Jerry Seinfeld-

Extra postcards are going out this week to:
Joan in Springfield, Ohio
Joanna in Woodbridge, Connecticut
Carol in Rosemount, Minnesota

Mail Art Project # 89 Abstract Painting I

Abstract Painting I

This is hand painted cotton muslin.  Machine quilted.

Today's quote:

"If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you."

-Groucho Marx_

Mail Art Project #88

Collaged hand dyed fabric, block printed, screen printed and hand painted flowers.

This week's quote:

"The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet."

-Ann Landers-

Mail Art Project # 87

This week's mail art postcards are a gelatin print of leaves with rubbings from a Ginko leaf plate made with paintsticks.  Then, I stitched over painted Tyvek which had been cut into ginko leaf shapes.  I melted the Tyvek slightly by touching it with an iron (parchment paper between the iron and the Tyvek).  This was actually a small art quilt that I felt was unsuccessful, so I cut it to 4 x 6" size for postcards.

This week's quote:

"Today you are you!  

That is truer than true!

There is no one alive

who is you-er tan you!"

-Dr. Seuss-

Mail Art Project Week Eighty Six

Hand painted fabric, block printed and outline stitched.

This week's quote:

"They say marriages are made in heaven.

But so are thunder and lightening."

-Clint Eastwood-

Mail Art Project Eighty Five

This group of postcards is created with the selvages of commercial fabrics.  

This week's quote:

"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were.  But without it we go nowhere."

-Carl Sagan-

Mail Art Project - Week Eighty Four

Sunflower

Block Printed

The centers are hand painted with thin brown Setacolor paint after the block print is dry.

Machine quilting with black thread.

This week's quote:
"There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of the wind."
-Annie Dillard-

Mail Art Project - Week Eighty Three

"Chickadee #3"

I've used chickadee imagery a couple of times already in this postcard series.
This one is an unsuccessful art quilt.
A gelatin plate plant print, Angelina leaves and some sparkly tulle made this one really tacky art quilt. Slightly less tacky as postcards, I guess.

This week's quote:
"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer,
it sings because it has a song."
-Lou Holtz-

Mail Art Project - Week Eighty Two

"Bamboo"

This week's postcard is hand dyed cotton canvas. It is so thick, I decided not to add batting and quilting.The bamboo is screen printed, then accented with a metallic fabric marker.

This week's quote:
"Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow
survives by bending with the wind."
-Bruce Lee-

Extra postcards are going out this week to:
Carol in Sheridan, Wyoming and
Louisa in Vancouver, British Columbia

Mail Art Project - Week Eighty One

"Goldfinch"

The background is a hand dyed, block printed fabric. The goldfinches were screen printed onto a hand dyed yellow cotton and fused in place using Mistyfuse.

This week's quote:

"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."
-Langston Hughes-