hmmmmmmm. great colors. love the idea of flowers. this is a nasty hodge podge from a design standpoint. the stamp is just very very *granny.* the scribbling is, well...*scribbley.* and then the card is rather scandinavian. so it would be perfect to send to my swedish granny who likes to scribble. instead, i will send it to jackie, or keep it in my pile of unsent mail. jackie, do you want it? why don't you use this as an opportunity to do something waaaay better? i can't think of anything i've seen of yours in purple...
This is exactly the kind of envelope that inspires me to start experimenting with shades of violet. On a tangentially related subject, the RSVP cards are getting very creative around here. Someone, I won't say who, had the bright idea to make a photocopy of both the reply card and the envelope - so they could keep the set together. A whole pile of RSVP cards in the mailbox, and one of them had a cowboy stamp. Imagine the look on my face. Maybe I should send out reply cards to random mail artists and invite them to confuse the count? But what to do about the stamps? Do I choose the stamp for them, or do I invite them to experience the spontaneous joy of my letter-and-search-for-stamp-later method? I have begun to suspect that the real reason I agreed to this Mother-of-the-Bride gig is for the mail. Possibly for the cake and the pretty dress, too. Though I am definitely not ready to be Granny Jack just yet. . .
ReplyDeleteOkay; later same day. I have just returned from the post office. I bought the cowboy stamps and the purple flower love stamps and a roll of the state stamps, thinking, wow, there will be all 50 states there. (Wrong. There are about 5 states repeated 10 times.) My new thing when people talk about "saving on postage" is to remind them that we, as a society, do not actually want our postal service to fail. Think of all the jobs, the income, the repercussions for lettering artists. . .anyway. . .I am going to drift down to the studio. I have quite a lot of purple to work with now. . .And I can't believe you even managed to get me interested in the cowboy stamps, Jean, but I am starting to wonder what an abstract expressionist cowboy envelope might look like.
ReplyDeletethe challenge will be to combine a cowboy, with the pansies and an abstract expressionist stamp, all on one envelope and....make it aesthetically pleasing. it seems impossible...but we won't really know until we try. are you game?
ReplyDeleteYes, and it will be much more fun than what I have been doing this evening - which is helping the youngest with the *Works Cited* page for her research paper.
ReplyDeleteI think the scribble has the potential to unite everything, really. That could be my ironic artist's statement. Illegible, of course.