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Wednesday 14 December 2016

Mail Art

Mail Art is the current challenge on the Paperartsy blog this week.

Here is my take on this..




I was inspired to create this after seeing the post from Wendy Mallas with her fab creation.

I started with the front piece of a Please Do Not Bend envelope, I always keep the card back for projects but always throw away this front piece. 



Wendy said towards the end of her post to try  paler shades for the background, so I used some blobs of Cheesecake and 2 blobs of Claret Fresco Chalk Paints. Recently I have seen artists using a window blade to move paints, so I tried this also!!



I chose the images I wanted to use, from Wings Plate 4 and Letters Plate 5, and like Wendy I stamped them onto some tissue paper.



As Wendy suggested, I thought of different ways to use these images. In my mind they could be pictures that could be hung on a wall. For a bit of fun, I sketched onto the envelope some telegraph poles and used my pictures to hang from the wires!!. A white sharpie pen completed the frames.



Thanks to Wendy for the inspiration, great fun to think of different ways to incorporate your stamps into artworks!!

4 comments:

  1. Love the images that you chose and the picture hanging idea is great fun. Love the way that you left bits of the envelope showing too.

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  2. Lovely envelope art Bryan, fab telegraph pole and it's idea. xx

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  3. Now that's a fun project! The window blade probably makes short work of paint spreading, not sure I want to use mine in this way, but if ever I find a cheap one...

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  4. I love those telegraph poles! Perfect entry.

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