You've Got Mail—2 / August 7, 2023

August 7, 2023

You’ve Got Mail—2

I have a bit of hardcore Yankee thrift in me that saves anything I think might be useful again in another circumstance. Ya just never know when snippets and scraps from one project might inspire a followup creation.

In the Dear Old Camp I Know
3.5 x 5.5″ postcards; ink, acrylic, pencil, pastel, and collage on card stock
abstract
2023

back of postcards

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   carolee36

   August 8, 2023 at 2:13 am

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   Yankee trait? Guess something rubbed off on me. Every day I want to get to the gritty task of clearing out, never seems to happen. Maybe making my cards will help. Great postcards, glad you are back to that art format!

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      Dotty Seiter

      August 8, 2023 at 5:17 am

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      Carol, yes, I’m back to postcards for a bit, enjoying the chance to paw through past exercises, experiments, and explorations for fodder for new creations. Great fun for me!

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   Joyful Puttering

   August 8, 2023 at 8:31 am

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   I’m afflicted with the same thing! These postcards continue to be a delight and will bring smiles to your granddaughters’ faces. LOVE the hand lettering on the back! You’ve just nailed that child-like quality.

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      Dotty Seiter

      August 8, 2023 at 1:52 pm

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      These postcards are fun for me b/c they need be no more than simple hugs from me to Caroline and Emmy. The fun for C&E will be the physical fact of the cards more than their content, I think—the moment each day when their leader passes mail to them—although they’ll no doubt love my message’s being the words to a camp song we all know and have sung together many times.

      The hand lettering, of course, is a direct outcome of the art convo and show and tell you and I shared recently : )

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         Joyful Puttering

         August 9, 2023 at 7:02 pm

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         Somehow I missed that the messages on the cards were words to a familiar song…..brilliant!!! I did recognize the lettering…and I’m loving that as much as anything. I’m going to have to practice it!

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   Dotty Seiter

   August 9, 2023 at 7:45 pm

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   Dialing in to the words of a song we all know and have sung many times provides a direct simple way to connect : )