Postcard Challenge 3

Here is this week's entry for Cathy and Roc's Postcard Challenge. Meet the Panda Family!

Yet more flowers

Well the last flowers provided such fun I made some more.

(Acrylics)

When in doubt

One of those days where only one out of three pictures works. Two end up in the bin - but 'tis a learning experience. If in doubt paint flowers.

Collage ATC's can provide for endless variety. I created eight cards today for a mail art swap on the theme of 'Poetic Women'. The idea is to provide a textual and colourful mixed media background for a vintage photograph linked to an unlikely phrase.

These three are a sample.

I love art challenges - and Cath & Roc's eight week postcard challenge on Mail Art World http://www.mailartworld.com/ is one of the best. Members are sent a collage page of arbitrary - and weird - images to use. Then at the end of the week we race to swap.

Here's mine. The gargoyle looks mournfully at cakes and chocs... and his Ma and Pa. He is weeping.

Underpainting

Based on an exercise in underpainting (S. French) - the complementary blues and oranges, reds and greens, seem to sing.

Personal Collection

Three postcards (4"x6") painted this week for my personal collection. These are in acrylics and in a variety of styles. Cowes was painted using torn pieces of cardboard instead of a brush. All attempt a more abstract approach where colour can glow.

A toe in the water

Creating and sending postcards to new and old friends is fun. There is something romantic about these fragile pieces of paper fighting through storm and tempest to reach their distant destination.