JeanR sent me a message about how she made the card that appeared yesterday. It is a leaf print done by dying the paper. She stacks paper with leaves in between each sheet. Then she rolls the paper and ties it with a string. Then she cooks it in a big kettle with pieces of iron, alum, vinegar and onion skins. The iron leaves black imprints and the onion leaves provide the yellow. She boils it for about an hour and then leaves it overnight to cool down and then unwraps it in the morning. Thanks, JeanR for the recipe. I'm tempted to try it.....
This is from Juliana. I think she said she used the big PITT marker for the name. That stamp is so perfect. Repetition is one of my favorite design principles. Repeating the name - all the same - or variations is style and color is a lovely way to fill in spaces. She only used the blues and greens off the stamp and I think that was a good choice. I think pink would have been adding too much contrast. Tomorrow's envelope is from Juliana and clearly - is postmarked *Aug* - so I deduced that this was July and it took a long time to arrive - so it ended up in the August stack.
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A recurring topic on my blog is the collecting of trash and then turning it into art. I spent a lot of time looking at this guy's work and it was hard to choose one example.
That is not Easter Island -- it is his own Moai made from plastic that he found on the beach.
He's British
Here is just one of the articles - I did not read it before linking to it - might get around to it when this post pops up. Time flies - and I have 9 more posts to write to fill up this month.
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