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Sunday Postcard Art - Skulls / Skeletons

This week’s creepy themes continue for Sunday Postcard Art  with Skulls / Skeletons.

Thanks so much for joining me today!  

Sunday Postcard Art - Ravens / Crows

This week’s theme for Sunday Postcard Art  is Ravens / Crows.  I used this wonderful raven stamp from Stampers Anonymous

Some people think that seeing or hearing a raven is a bad omen.  I hope not!  I see and hear them all the time at my house in the Pacific Northwest.  

Thanks so much for joining me today as we count down to Hallowe’en every Sunday this month with Sunday Postcard Art.  

Tomorrow I’ll be sharing the remainder of my Colour challenge pieces - I hope you’ll join me.

Sunday postcard Art - Ghosts

Things are getting spooky at Sunday Postcard Art  with this week’s theme of Ghosts.

Thanks so much for joining me today.  I will be back tomorrow, with another online challenge I’ve joined - if you love colour, you’re going to want to see this!  

Sunday Postcard Art - Pumpkins

This week marks the start of the Halloween season for Sunday Postcard Art  - yay!  

Our first theme is Pumpkins.

Thanks so much for joining me today.  I’m looking forward to making more spooky postcards this month!  

Sunday Postcard Art - Asemic Writing

This week’s theme for Sunday Postcard Art  is Asemic Writing.  I love using asemic writing as background for my art, and those of you who follow me here or on Instragram will have seen this many times over the years. It looks like writing, but has no meaning.  There is a saying in North America that messy handwriting is “chicken scratch”.  So I thought I’d add a chicken to mine.  I confess my handwriting has gotten very messy over the years unless I’m really concentrating, so my writing might even be mistaken for asemic writing!

Thanks so much for joining me today!

Sunday Postcard Art - Bicycles

This week’s theme for Sunday Postcard Art  is Bicycles.

I have drawn my biked and leaned it up against a weathered wall made from one of my gelli prints.

Thanks so much for joining me today!  

Sunday Postcard Art - Forest

This week’s theme for Sunday Postcard Art is Forest.

I started out trying an image transfer with my gelli plate.  It didn’t work out quite the way I’d planned so I decided to take a different approach.  Just drawing a silhouette over a map and adding a big red moon or sun from a print I made a few weeks ago.

Then I had second thoughts about the “failed” print.  When I looked at it again I saw the forest - do you see it too?  Or did I just imagine it because I wanted to see it? Either way, I’ve set up one of my little paper houses on the edge of the forest.

Thank you very much for joining me today!  I appreciate you looking at my work.  Don’t forget, you can see much more of my work on Instagram, where I post pretty much daily. https://www.instagram.com/cindymcmath/

Sunday Postcard Art - Owls

This week’s theme for Sunday Postcard Art  is Owls.

I used this wonderful owl stamp and basically built the card around it.

Thanks so much for joining me today!  I’ll be back tomorrow with more square collages. 

New Postcard Series

Well hello!  I know I don’t usually post during the week, but I’m on vacation, and I have a special post regarding a series of postcards made specifically for an online challenge from My Collage Lab  If you’re visiting from my Instagram page, welcome and thank you.  

First of all, this series is inspired by video published on one of my favourite artist’s YouTube channel - Jane Davies.  In case you’re not already following Jane (and if not, what’s wrong with you?!) the link to this particular tutorial is Here

This post is not a tutorial, but I wanted to show you a few of the different layers that went into this project. Since this is a collage challenge, the layers of collage might not be immediately evident, and I wanted to show them in particular.  But of course I forgot to photograph a few layers - I get quite caught up in the process!

First of all, I glued down some of my photocopied doodles onto a 9” x 12” piece of Strathmore mixed media paper.  I also added a bit of black paint as shown. 

Next I added some paint in some of my favourite colours.  I pulled some of the paint up with a sheet of paper in order to make sure my initial layer still showed through.

Next I added some hand-painted tissue paper.  The circles you see are already glued down.  You can see the black marks sitting on top waiting to be glued.  I used tissue from an old pattern.

And here the are, all glued down.

Next I brayered some lighter colour horizontally, and added some stamped patterns from my favourite stamp source for mixed media - Art Foamies

Here I’ve added some marks with my Molotow pen in Signal Red, as well as a few scraps of gelli print.  I didn’t like the white edges on the gelli print so I blended in a bit of Neocolor II crayon.

At this point I cut the base into four equal 4.5” x 6” pieces.  Although a postcard size is usually 4” x 6” I don’t like to waste paper and there is no real size restriction.  As those of you who follow me know I often make postcards from bingo cards of various sizes, as well as square cards and even giant puzzle pieces.  

After the cards were cut, I added some finishing touches and wound up with the following four cards.

Thank you so much for joining me today!  I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing the different layers that went into these cards.  

Sunday Postcard Art - Giraffes

This week’s theme for Sunday Postcard Art  is Giraffes.  Who doesn’t love a giraffe?  My giraffe has escaped from the carousel!

Thanks so much for joining me today.  I’ll be posting week 4 of my August square collage challenge tomorrow - I hope you’ll come back!