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Liberate Your Art Postcard Number 3

Mixed media: watercolor, acrylic, fabric, and paper flowers cut from gift bags. (click photo to see more)

I came home from brunch with my folks, raspberry french toast from Corky’s, to find this. A fantastical postcard from my friend Natasha Papousek. She explains:

Aloha Art Friend!
This year’s swap finds me in Honolulu for the spring semester. I thought it fitting to show a phoenix (an old bird celebrating new beginnings) with the Queen of Polynesian flowers, the Tiare or Tahitian Gardenia. As I learn about Hawaii and experience new adventures, I am reminded of this quote by Ursula K. LeGuin:

It is good to have an end to journey;
but it is the journey that matters in the end.

Mixed media: watercolor, acrylic, fabric, and paper flowers cut from gift bags.

This card traveled from Hawaii to Oregon. It took the long way around through the east coast before landing in southern California. This traveling card came from an avid traveler! I hope the travel bug rubs off on me!

Thank you Natasha, for making this a delightful day!

Wishing you all the best, may you have many new beginnings!

Liberate Your Art – Postcard Arrivals

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Candid Subway Series 2013 NYC. Lori Moon.

Howdy Y’all.

I didn’t meant to go so long without posting. Server issues that I thought had been resolved, but instead are ongoing. Hopefully all will be well soon.

I am so excited to share my first two postcards from Kat’s swap with you. Card #1 is from Lori Moon (came last week). A collection from her Candid Subway Series 2013 NYC.

As I gaze into the subway, I can imagine the sounds. The light changing as we enter the tunnel. Lori has me wondering about each of these people. On the back of the card, Lori wrote,

“May you find beauty in your everyday.“

Today’s beauty was Lori’s photographs of people going about their business. Just as they did yesterday. And just as they will tomorrow. Just as we all do.

I look at these images, and I am reminded. To me New York will always be synonymous with HERO. I think there is a bit of hero in each New Yorker.

And I hope there is a bit of hero, in each and every one of us.

God bless Kat for creating this opportunity for so many to spread joy around the world.
God bless Lori, and creative’s everywhere who put their hearts and souls on display.

God Bless New York. God Bless the U.S.A.

Postcard #2

Art in my room

This treasure arrived yesterday. Light and lovely. I have a piece of art in my room with the same flowers. You have to take a look at Barbara’s site. She has a series of these poppies. My photo does not do hers justice. On the back Barbara included this,

“Teach us delight in simple things.” ~ Rudyard Kipling

Luscious, luminous… celestial. Go NOW. Take a look!

Poppy. Barbara Hurst 2014

Mail Art and Mailed Art

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Rescued Barbie in handmade Medieval Costume

Today was my lucky day! My mailbox was filled with a rich chocolate color handmade envelope. Inside it were these wonderful postcards.

One woman’s treasure.

Nepalese handmade papers and hand printed.

These gorgeous papers from Nepal were inside too. The sun is a handmade postcard, and the fish are a piece of stationary on beautifully textured paper. Their bright sunny colors just bring a smile to my face. The papers have such a terrific texture, and the stationary is translucent.

2 x 2 “Tree Spirit” by T. H. H.

Nepalese hand printed paper.

These were gifts from my friend Teresa Harrington Hazelbaker. We met through Kat Sloma’s Liberate your Art postcard exchange. She also included a small magnet with her colorful art on it. I keep some of my art supplies in a metal chartreuse bucket on my desk, and this compliments it perfectly!

I was so happy to receive this surprise in my mail. So honored too that Teresa would share the Nepalese treasures with me. They were gifts from her niece who traveled to Nepal. Thanks so much Teresa! Blessings in my mailbox!

Carpenter Bee. 6 x 6 watercolor on 140 lb. cold pressed paper, mounted on a cradled wood panel.

I am heading to the post office to send my carpenter bee to Hamburg Germany. The exhibition is an effort to raise money and awareness for the dwindling bee populations world-wide. It will be held May 8th – May 28th at the Galerie Faszination Art.

I painted the cradle board a yellow ochre that I think compliments the bright colors in the artwork. This is the first time I have mounted a watercolor, and I am so pleased with how it turned out!

Signed, sealed, and soon to be delivered!

Wishing you all a super weekend!